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17. Only The Date Is Unknown
Wed Aug 19, 2015, 07:15 AM
Aug 2015

8/11/15 Only The Date Is Unknown

The US and world economies are frauds that are coming unraveled. The Greek bailout is the most recent example of “kick the can down the road” solutions. The US housing bubble was an attempt to cover up/recover from the dot-com bust. Now the US is in a financial bubble engineered to recover from the housing bubble debacle. Soon this bubble will burst. Only the date is unknown.

Two predictions can be made with reasonable confidence:

The stock market is likely to be halved and that might be optimistic. Only the date is unknown.
The economy will eventually resemble the Great Depression. Only the date is unknown.

Nothing is ever certain. An experienced CFO told me at the beginning of my career that “even the impossible has a 20% probability.” In deference to him and years of empirical evidence, I put the the above two events as virtually certain, i.e., an 80% probability.

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http://www.economicnoise.com/2015/08/11/only-the-date-is-unknown/


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