IF (producers do not shrug) THEN
Producers will get blamed for "unfairly" profiting from the misery of moochers. Looters will call for still higher taxes and more regulation. The Fed will call for negative interest rates. Sane people will put their savings into locked metal boxes in their closets.
Go back to start of IF statement
ELSE producers will disappear into a Gulch
ENDIF

The Fed isn't interested in lowering either taxes or regulations. They support the moves by the current Administration and Congress to increase taxes and stifle small business because it forces more business to go through the major banks they control.

And the Federal Government also seeks the control that comes with more government handouts and regulations. They also work hand-in-hand to continue the inflationary policies that devalue the national debt. It's a massive cabal.

I think we are closer to the end than most think we are JB. Hope I'm wrong.

Oh, you'll get your bounces. Maybe not today, but there will assuredly be bounces. Sell them.

The decline in the stock market has been going on for a year now. I am sure all the computerized trading is poised to get OUT at the slightest blip, which we saw yesterday. I think stagnation and slow decline is whats going to happen, followed by Venezuela-style collapse.

What WE can do is try to separate ourselves from the dealings of our government by using alternative money and being self sufficient as much as possible.

I did not finish. so here goes.

The problem in China is simple, they do not have an internal economy that is to say they can not support themselves without shipping goods all over the world starting with the US. We had an internal economy until the government started the ball rolling to cause companies to leave the country and now that we do not have manufacturing as we had it 50 years ago our internal economy is disappearing. We also have over one hundred million people unemployed and as a result of an open border the number of unemployed is growing.The fed is just a sham and they can do nothing to change the direction of the down fall of the economy. Even if oil is 10 bucks a barrel people will not be able to afford to buy gas, because they do not have a job and the government will not give them more money. Yes this down turn will be worse.