[SDC]

I realize that a similar thread has been posted before, but it degenerated into a JD vs Doomers type of discussion, and didn't really answer the question. Thus:

When will the United States economy crash?

To be more specific, when will it become virtually impossible to sell a piece of real estate in the United States?

[Dezakin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SDC', 'I') realize that a similar thread has been posted before, but it degenerated into a JD vs Doomers type of discussion, and didn't really answer the question. Thus:

When will the United States economy crash?

To be more specific, when will it become virtually impossible to sell a piece of real estate in the United States?

[Ayoob]

I think you might want to reword your question. Somebody will always be ready to buy or sell land somewhere. In exchange for something they value.

[SDC]

Question reworded.

When will it be virtually impossible to sell real estate in the United States for a price that you can buy a piece of real estate large enough to become self-sufficient on?

[rwwff]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SDC', 'W')hen will the United States economy crash?

[threadbear]

Before the end of the year. The political scene will act as a catalyst to a process already in the first stages of entropy.

[garyp]

In general crash scenarios depend on shocks to initiate the change. The potential has to be there of course, but it usually takes a disruptive event to shift behaviours and belief.

Therefore if you want to predict the crash, look for potential shocks. They can be political, economic, supply, demand, technological, or plain disasters. Maybe something like a change of control in government, a collapse of a large company, sudden oil supply constriction or a terrorist incident.

With probabilities as they are, you should expect one or more of these to happen within a year in any circumstance. Its then up to how it is received and how public behaviours react.

[Dezakin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SDC', 'W')hen will the United States economy crash?

[clueless]

I say the US will keep inflating and go to war to squash anyone who has the willingness and abiity to tank US currency/economy.

And besides there is no (complete) escape from Peak Oil, and no such thing as a fully sustainable existence in the United States.

[basil_hayden]

The Plunge Protection Team will not allow you to perceive a crash.

There will be invidual crashes: lives disintegrated, but it won't be to you or yours initially and will go on unnoticed.

Then there will be collective crashes in other countries, like in Africa, India...the developing overpopulated world. But it won't make the news, because the news has become "Entertainment Tonight".

Then there will just be less and less opportunity, which will feel normal with a slow onset. Environmental laws and such will be tossed. Martial law wil be in place, but you'll still have your plasma TV if you can hold a job and pay the utility bill, otherwise you'll be the center of attention for those martial laws.

Then all the bad things happen that we discuss on this board, hopefully followed by all the good things we discuss on this board, once population is better managed with respect to natural laws and available resources.

I just don't see a classic "Crash" coming, because TPTB know how that gets the proletariat all excited, and the last thing powerbrokers need is 300 million pissed off "assets". It's easy to manipulate groups, look at pump prices before the elections...

[rwwff]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', 'Y')ou trimmed my quote. He asked when you cant sell land at all at first, and I said never. There are corrections in the real estate market when bubbles occur, and then some sellers get shafted, sure.

[Dezakin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', 'M')y thoughts are along the lines that the coming medicare/ss/medicaid liability should be seen as a likely source of artificial inflation. So the spread between a 5yr bond and a 30yr bond should be wider than it is right now; but it isn't; which leads me to believe the bond market expects a serious recession /depression period with some deflation in the middle.

[rwwff]

Is the last paragraph the way you meant it?

[rwwff]

OTC drip morphine. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

[Dezakin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', 'I')s the last paragraph the way you meant it?

[rwwff]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', 'I')s the last paragraph the way you meant it?

[pacohoney]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'm')ost high-priced rural land has the view but no water.

worthless stupid striving yuppie achievers will scamper back to the city with their tails between their mercedes when TSHTF. trash.