You ain't seen nuttin yet!

Consumer Debt has slyrocketed over the past 3 months, the unemployed are using plastic and will not be able to repay it.

Greece is just the start the meltdown of the Euro

Demand for goods and services will negatively effect the U.S and Chinese economies. (the only 2 that are keeping things aflost right now!)

Oil is nearing $90 per bbl, when it reaches that point the bottom will fall out of it and all other commodities.

I am looking for DOW 9,000 in the not to distant future.

The big money market manipulators are pushing the market lower to look like it needs help so Bernake will dump a load of QE3 into the hog trough for them to feed on. It's all about stealing as much money from John Q Public as Bernake will allow.

 I say let the market tank and let the big money players lose out and it will all correct itself. Someone new will step up to fill the "gone broke"crowds shoes. But it has to be allowed to crash to begin fixing itself.

1918  was the conception of the Weimar Republic and the concurrent "Reichenmark" hyperinflationary event of 1923,which led to the rise of Adolf Hitler.Massive war debts were prevalent everywhere.Germany itself was flat broke,couldn't pay war reparations, and was looking for debt forgiveness.This was the official end of the Second Reich under Otto von Bismarck.

The United States also had its own issues.It melted down over 270 million ounces of silver  coinage and converted it to bullion for payment of  our own war debts to England.The Pittman Act of 1918 required that U.S. replace the coins with new coins,hence the Silver Morgan Peace Dollars.

Two points of interest:

1)the Federal Reserve Bank was only 5 years old.

2)All governement issued money was still anchored by gold.

As we all know by now,the speculation of stocks in the roaring twenties led to the the stock market crash of 1929 and the great depression of 1929-1941.It seems we never learn.Only problem is,now we have TRILLIONS IN DEBT,QUADRILLION IN DERIVATIVES,AND NO PRODUCTIVITY TO SUPPORT IT.

Called this as we broke thru the 1375 resistance level on S&P. Pull back should end around 1275-1300 area where significant resistance lies.

The pull back, actually doesn't make much sense (unless it's forcasting something). Earnings were much better than expected for Q1. I'm actually positive on this pull back as it allows some better buying opportunities.

The street (i.e. traders, bankers, economists, etc) hasn't been this bearish since March 2009. One general rule I try to hold myself to is what the "herd" is predicting, rarely, if ever comes to pass. They all thought 2008 was just a blip till it crashed, they all thought it was all over in 2009, then stocks rallied 100%, They all thought beginning 2010, and 2011 that we were out of the woods, they all thought it was over again last October (only to see a 30% rally).

Gold may snap back a little, but I have the feeling it could be facing more headwinds than people think. It's persistant below it's 200-day MA. Something that has only happened 1 other time in the last 10 years. Last time was under forced market selling pressure. This time, obviously isn't. It got pushed under back in March (with no forced market liquidation).

The Feds talk in the last few weeks does look a little like they could be preparing the market for another QE. But if it's in mortgages, I don't think the impact is going to be the same as it has been in their bond buying, treasury buying.

1975:

This recession lasted sixteen months (November 1973-March 1975). OPEC is blamed for quadrupling prices for a few months in 1973. It alone didn't cause such a deep recession. Several factors contributed. First, the U.S. went off of the gold standard and printed more money. This created inflation, as too many dollars chased too few goods. Second, President Nixon instituted wage-price controls. This kept prices too high, reducing demand. Wage controls made salaries too high, which forced businesses to lay off workers. The result was stagflation and three consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth: 1974 Q3 -3.9% (-3.8%), Q4 -1.6% (-1.6%), 1975 Q1 -4.8%(-4.7%). Unemployment reached a peak of 9% in May 1975, two months after the recession technically ended.

Red billy,

Gold and silver are manipulated.That's why governments,central banks,private investors,billionair​es,and hedge funds like PSLV run by Eric Sprott have been buying by the tonnes for the last 3 years.Utah now recognizes gold/silver as legal tender,India has been trading gold for Iranian oil,and the Shanghai Exchange for gold futures just started trading,so the move of gold and silver toward the financial system has commenced.And since only 1% of ALL finanical assets are in PM's right now,what do you think will happen to the price in your precious fiat dollars once that number inevitably reaches 5 or 10% investor participation?I love these experts who continue to deride the precious metals investors.Metals have only crushed the stock market for the last 10 years!

Unlike the manipulation of the sheeple via ZIRP and the DOW,the price suppression schemes of AU/AG make the metal very,very cheap to buy these days.The nominal value of PMs in dollar terms does not matter.It's the medium of exchange and wealth protection that drives metal investors.Nothing would make me happier than to see $500 gold and $8 silver again-I would load up!

You can keep those increasingly worthless,debased dollars printed into oblivion.The demise of this monetary system put into play on Aug 15,1971 is closer than you can imagine.Good Luck.