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To: oldirtybastard who wrote (352710)	1/7/2008 12:48:12 PM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

This whole mess is so horrible, and I don't really see a way out of it without pain. No clues here. There has been a considerable drop of mortgage rates, and if they try to monetize, it may stall the housing slide. However, we won't get out of crisis without getting our manufacturing base back. That will be a long process, IMHO. A Volcker type solution is not the answer to a debt crisis? In my view, the best that can be done is a decade or two of "flatness" similar to Japan. We are already 8 years into it, considering that the SPOOS are at the same level they were in 2001, in constant dollars.