Paul B. Farrell: Our decade from hell will get worse in 2012

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Our decade from hell will get worse in 2012
Commentary: Market crash, political gridlock, revolution, new class wars

By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch


SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Fasten your seat belts: 2011 was far worse than expected. Our earlier predictions for America’s Worst Decade just got worse.

As financial historian Niall Ferguson writes in Newsweek: “Double-Dip Depression … We forget that the Great Depression was like a soccer match, there were two halves.” The 1929 crash kicked off the first half. But what “made the depression truly ‘great’ …began with the European banking crisis of 1931.” Sound familiar?

Yes, huge warnings: But America’s deaf. In denial. When we predicted the 2011-2020 “decade from hell” we didn’t see the big macro events dead ahead: Arab Spring virus that’s now Occupy Wall Street, promising to explode into an even more powerful force in 2012 … war on the middle class … widening inequality gap. … Washington gridlock … the Super Rich’s blind resistance to all new taxes.

As Ferguson puts it: “To understand what has been happening in our own borderline depression, you need to know this history. But hardly anyone does.” Get it? America’s already in a “borderline depression,” and virtually nobody gets it. American leaders are dummies about history. Worse, nobody may be able to stop our depression from turning “great.” .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/our-decade-from-hell-will-get-worse-in-2012-2011-12-13?link=home_carousel

[Bolo Boffin]

1. financial historian Niall Ferguson...

Anything worthwhile that RW cat has got to say can be found somewhere else.

Unfortunately, this is one of those times...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/opinion/krugman-depression-and-democracy.html

[mmonk]

6. That is one of my favorite pieces by Krugman.

It shows the madness of "austerity" at this time. It's too bad more people don't listen to him whether it be the Eurozone or here.

[ixion]

2. Oh, don't worry. Citigroup says everything looks great!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141507

[xchrom]

3. du rec. nt

[mmonk]

4. Yes, we are trapped between dishonest politicians on the take and an ignorant population

that believes in an alternative reality. Hope is not high with me. If not for OWS, I'd be despondent. They offer what little hope there is towards a reality based conversation.

[snappyturtle]

5. The link is very scary to me.