[Pops]

How long has the Double Dip thread been running with daily doses of green shoot PR yet the Real Clear Politics Right/Wrong Track poll says 70% wrong track?

Aside from the professional fluffers and one-trick-bloggers I think most folks know the house has slid off the foundation a bit. I'm pretty sure the consumer confidence level has never recovered after it became clear in '07 that perfect markets hadn't been discovered after all, maybe perfect Ponzi schemes but not perfect markets.

Personally I was more afraid back before we bugged out in '04. I've achieved some of my "prep" goals and feel a bit less vulnerable than I did around Y2k and especially after our reaction to 9/11. I feel like the recession was just a foreshock.

[Loki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', ' ')I feel like the recession was just a foreshock.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'R')OCK, I have an ever shorter hand: "M is for Malthus" which would be MSFM. Okay, it's not shorter but it is older. Things were more fun here before horizontal drilling and fracturing saved everyone's shopping day.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Gruesome Hammer long idly resting at the side of Fate is now slowly rising up readying to smash everything we now find Familiar.

[ROCKMAN]

"...the side of Fate is now slowly rising up readying to smash everything we now find Familiar." LOL. I like that imagery. Granted I'm on the happy side of the energy fence these days but when I was 18 yo I experienced my first big hammer smashing. My first of several bubble bursts the likes of which we have all experienced at one time or another. Just another one of those phases most go thru when they hit one of those bumps along life's road. I imagine a big problem that some Joe6packs have is that they've gone thru a number high and low cycles: long lines at the gas station followed by global recession followed by $10 oil followed by Iraq invading Kuwait followed by $30 oil followed by $12/mcf followed by $146 oil followed by $2.50/mcf followed by $40 oil followed by $100 oil followed by big growth in US oil production etc.

Taken in that context it's easy to imagine their difficulty in figuring out who to believe: peak oilers, cornucopians or politicians who adjust their pitch according to the moods of their constituents.

[JV153]

Mmmm. Sort of had the same feelings but recently I've just been wondering why these large screens with flickering lights exist ? Mmmm... phototaxis. Mmmm.... Industrial Light & Magic

[John_A]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Falconoffury', 'O')r does anyone else feel an icy cold fist closing around them? Is it just me, or are we really almost about hit the biggest economic disaster in our history? It feels like we have only months left. The only thing keeping us going is the extra oil being released by the SPR. Am I right?

[John_A]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Loki', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', ' ')I feel like the recession was just a foreshock.