$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AirlinePilot', 'S')hort term rally continues. We may be near the top of that. All these "green Shoots" of good news are nothing more than pundits grasping for anything floating in the surrounding maelstrom. They cant see past their noses to the larger picture that long term we cannot continue on our present course of debt spending and larcenous lending/banking processes. At some point later this year or into early next year the Bond market has what most would call a dislocation. US Government spends itself into bankruptcy and the Dollar loses its value and status as a world currency. Good luck on predicting a time line, but my guess is this happens within a year or so. There are too many larger problems which point to more downward pressure in the greater economy and the US markets for me to believe we go back to Business as Usual anytime soon.
Once the US dollar loses its reserve currency things get very ugly for the US as everything we import, including large amounts of oil, becomes very, very, expensive very quickly. Any possibility of growth goes way with that. I beleive it significantly affects the global economy due to the destruction of the economic engine that is the United States.
After that, think Mad max.
I am hoping and praying that we figure out some other path, but currently we are on the road of Quantitative Easing which is purely an attempt to re-inflate the housing and credit bubbles which got us into this mess. I truly do not think it will work. We go bankrupt before there is any hope of plugging up the giant holes of liquidity which MUST be exposed. Our leaders are using a playbook which might have worked in times past without realizing this go around is very different and of a much greater magnitude than anything we have seen in modern times.
How do you like me now??
