[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I don’t know but I saw this yesterday

$3.17 TRILLION wiped off global stocks so far this year
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3383435/posts

[grania]

Thanks for that. I tend to think in broad, logical strokes, so here goes: I'd think this is the real deal. People were happy about Saudi pulling the plug on gas prices (oh boy!! The consumer gets more money to spend on lottery tickets and candy bars and a trip to the amusement park). But that's money that was going to developing countries and to middle class lives and into communities. So now the Saudis are going to sink the world economy into chaos and pick up the pieces? How can it be stopped in a global environment.

I'd think the countries that will survive, the economic meltdown, global chaos with "migrants" and the effects of terrorism will be those countries that can isolate themselves. The US? Perhaps the only way to do it is for a collapse of federal control, and some states will be able to take matters into their own hands.

How quickly could it descend into chaos, anywhere? Look at Crimea, Germany, Syria, Libya etc to answer that question.

Are we closer to "the sky is falling" than ever before? Are there too many things on the table? I wonder.