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Message:: [QUOTE="Cloudsweeper99, post: 336302, member: 3011"]SteveG, We're probably in a recession right now.  Most of the time, recessions don't show up in the government statistics until they are already over and the statistics are revised.  Believe it or not, recessions aren't the catastrophe that the media makes them out to be so don't worry about them -- you'll survive.  I would also advise you not to take the doom and gloom articles seriously.  They sound scarey and persuasive, but are probably best ignored.  That said, it's not a good idea to try to trade in and out of the coin market based on economic forecasts.  Do you really care if the value of your coins goes down 30%?  First of all, they might not go down.  They might go up.  Or if they go down now, they might go up even higher in the future.  Or they might go up first and down later.  Or maybe they'll just hover around current prices for a couple of decades.  They look high now, but will current prices have been high if the double a few years from now?  Or maybe the series you own will go down while most others go up.  Or maybe the reverse.  You can drive yourself crazy if you think you can figure this stuff out in advance.  Just collect what you like and be secure in the knowledge that inflation is so relentless that over a period of many years your coins will continue to appreciate as long as you didn't pay ridiculously high prices to start with.[/QUOTE]