Reply #19: No, I don't think so, honestly...

[bicentennial_baby]

I think that the most acute period will be around 24 months, and then the comedown/rebuild maybe another 12-24. It's going to take some major transformations in many ways as far as the Gov't and the Fed are concerned, but I do have faith that it is fixable, in the long term. In the short term, not so much. And, I think the various bandaids being slapped on it by the Fed and the * Administration are only going to prolong the pain.