Will you PLEASE do me a HUGE favor? Thank you very much! Will you PLEASE show ME THE PROOF?! STRICTLY a rhetorical statement made into a Q: IF you had such knowledge, foresight and intuition, why the devil didn't you write a column or get a book published using the screen name "sharpjwe"? By the way, would you please tell us when we're going to get out of this economic mess the world is now in? I SURE WOULD LOVE to be on the right side of those trades!!!!! I KNOW I could make A WHOLE LOT of wonderful giving folks A WHOLE LOT happier! Thanks for asking your Q! I enjoyed answering it! VTY, Ron Berue Yes, that is my real last name! Sources: My wonderful family! Graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, New Haven, CT campus. Was in the Food and Beverage business over 26 years. In the real estate business over 34 years in Pennsylvania. THE ABSOLUTE BEST, MOST WONDERFUL real estate investment group in the world, which I was very proud to be a member of! Was in the air freight business for 8 years. Trading stocks and options more than 3 years. TWO [2] of THE ABSOLUTE BEST, MOST wonderful trading groups in the world, which I am most proud to be a member of! My terrific teachers, instructors, professors, mentors and coaches! On a regular, dependable basis, I volunteer at Magee Rehabilitation Hospital, Philadelphia, PA. "THE University of Hard Knocks" Also known as ("a/k/a") "life's valuable lessons".

Everyone has a fait money system and apparently everyone is printing money if we have a world wide recession and finger pointing starts there is a chance of War not no little Iraq thing either WAR!! I hope this doesn't happen. What happen when bread cost say 6 dollars a loathe.

If the dollar isn't worth the paper, I'll be happy to take yours and give you paper instead! :)

Yeah I don't get it either, the dollar has dropped in value every single year since the FEd was created and started printing our money. I think these economists and such they have on the news are nothing but spin doctors

Actually, the US dollar is still the world's strongest currency. All others are falling against it. But as to your question, no one has ever seen something like this before. There were many hints that we were in an economic bubble but this one is world wide. It's a perfect storm, all triggered by the sub-prime mortgage crisis, the international banking system and a whole bunch of very greedy morons.

"What goes up must come down." It is bound to happen. The U.S. tried to cover up their losing grip of power ( economic and military) with the Iraq war. But again, what goes up must come down. Events can no longer hide.We all have to go back to basics. As what the G20 are now doing, reorganizing which they should have done even earlier, the last Asian financial crisis should have triggered them from moving but they didn't. They didn't care much about the third world as they thought they can survive among themselves and simply dump "garbage" in Asia. Ironically, a lot of them chooses retirement in Asia. Get real people. Chris, Manila, Philippines