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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LTK007 who wrote (99760)	11/20/2008 8:14:49 PM
From: bart13	5 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

The purple line is 1929 on, scaled.

To: LTK007 who wrote (99760)	11/21/2008 10:41:14 AM
From: Metacomet	Respond to of 110194

George Ure has continuously monitored and compared the economies of 1929 to now.... Slope of Dopes "Since this website has, since the mid 1990's been writing about how the Kondratieff Longwave of economics is about to swallow the whole world and land us in a New Depression, I know it has been easy to get distracted into the serial distractions designed to keep that from becoming apparent. It was clear to most level-headed people that in the wake of the Internet Bubble collapse of 2000 into 2001 that we were on the slippery slopes of disaster. But, turn on a couple of wars, have a whole new industry invented overnight based on 9/11, then serial bubbles in markets and housing, and presto! No more Depression. Except, not quite. We are still getting one anyway, it's just coming at us a little differently than expected. What we are getting this time around is deflation first and then inflation to follow. Here's how the decline from the 1929 peak and the decline from our most recent market peak are comparing:.............." (link to graph) urbansurvival.com