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When JD started out, the average citizen would have agreed with him wholeheartedly. Now, with gasoline approaching $4 and oil soon to pop over $80, the whole world sits on the edge of their seats waiting to see which one of two fanatic religious wackos leaders blinks first or if perhaps we just just escalate right into WWIII without more than 5 minutes of advance warning.
So, at this particular point in history, JD decides to let us all know, in his infinite wisdom, that PO is a farce and a non-event and he's not going to waste any more time on it.
Wow

Talk about bad timing.
I don't think anyone's been this spectacularly idiotic since Irving Fisher in the fall of 1929.
Do you think that someone with JD's personality flaws would, for one second, give up the chance to stick it to us doomers with another million 'I told you so's' if he was truly convinced he was right ?
You people need to take some basic psych courses. You understand nothing about what makes people tick.
Good points. In the last 2 months people who I spoke to about global issues a year or 2 earlier are coming to me for "guidance" like I know what is going to happen. These same people scoffed earlier at the same thoughts they are believing now, so it is definitely starting to change the "average" person I think. Just means consumer spending and whatnot is most likely to decrease in the short term.