“””Anyone here willing to bet their money that this will happen?”””
Yea and verily, been 95% PM since early 2008 and my net worth has almost doubled and missed the market crash. Not really any richer just have not lost any purchasing power.
took us a generation to get into this mess, going to take a generation to get out of it.
Only if the necessary changes in fiscal policy are adopted and now! I look for a lot more hand wringing to be done at great expense to the taxpayers with little or no improvement. It is far more likely that the powers that be will continue to dance around the edges giving lip service to appease the voters while they wait (meanwhile padding their own pockets) until the collapse is so imminent that it will be too late to do anything about it......