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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 1353532, member: 13650&quot;]I&#039;m not a major investor by any means but this is exactly my viewpoint.&nbsp; I don&#039;t agree with this post because I&#039;m &quot;lazy&quot; or &quot;don&#039;t read&quot;.&nbsp; I agree with it because I HAVE been reading and listening to people who were actually affected by this stuff.&nbsp; I&#039;ve listened to many people who are willing to face the unsettling reality of what things have become (degenerated to) and what the future looks like going forward.&nbsp;&nbsp; Normally history can be used as a valuable tool to predict future events.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t think it&#039;s valuable anymore to use the past to judge what the stock markets will do.&nbsp; The next 30 years will not remotely look anything like the last 30 years.&nbsp; Not possible.&nbsp;&nbsp; I agree with all points fatima has made and then some.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Anybody who doesn&#039;t think that almost every company isn&#039;t cooking the books in some way, shape or form, to meet projected earning reports is not being realistic.&nbsp; To varying extents, they all are.&nbsp; You cannot trust these people.&nbsp;&nbsp; As long as somebody hasn&#039;t been burned by the corruption, dishonesty, lies and gambling, they will keep promoting it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Just don&#039;t talk to the people that have.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;On top of that, besides the numerous LEGAL ways people are allowed to confiscate your profits through fees and taxation, I&#039;m a strong believer in the fact that if you don&#039;t personally have it in your possession, you really don&#039;t own anything.&nbsp; When it comes down to it, that is a fact.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; You&#039;ve got people from NASA developing computer programs and algorithms to analyze internet traffic to make trades in 30 second intervals or less just for the sake of skimming pennies off the top.&nbsp; Over and over again.&nbsp; Everybody has their hands in things, skimming.&nbsp; If people really understood how bad it is now and how much funny business is allowed to go on, they would get out immediately.&nbsp; May as well try Vegas.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Not to mention the government debt time bomb that keeps ticking away, just in entitlement programs alone!&nbsp; Just because things have been able to sustain this long (for 30 years) doesn&#039;t mean they&#039;ll be able to sustain for another 30 now that the situation is exponentially worse.&nbsp; Far less likely they can.&nbsp; IMO, it&#039;s dangerous to view this situation as people simply &quot;crying wolf&quot; year after year.&nbsp; The wolf may actually be here now.&nbsp; Lets remember he eventually does come at the end of that story!</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;It could also be argued that everybody is in the stock market because it is the status quo.&nbsp; It should be about maxed out where it is already.&nbsp;&nbsp; Relatively very few are invested in PMs so they should have a long way to run.&nbsp; Personally, I think people haven&#039;t even begun to seek shelter in PMs yet compared to what&#039;s coming.&nbsp; Time will tell though.&nbsp; Good luck to all, whatever your decisions may be.&nbsp; I have no ill-will towards anyone&#039;s decision.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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