Beldin:
Re: “So, forgive me if I continue to invest in the market as rationally as I can and not enthusiastically join you in breathless, hopeful anticipation of the sky falling. ”
Good post. While I wish I could say that I agree, I don't. Not completely.
Like you, I don't wish ill upon anyone except the guilty. But - like Nemo - I wish that the sky would hurry up and fall.
"Sky falling," by the way, is a lame and insulting analogy, but you're the one who introduced it so I'll continue with it.
The economic sky, unlike Chicken Little's, really is falling. History will prove that to be true. I *think* even you agree. Unfortunately, nobody knows when (or, more accurately, when it will be undeniable), so it's easy to mock those who continually rail against investing in this fake economy. The absence of a schedule doesn't change the fact that they're right.
Am I a worse person than you for hoping that the sky falls SOON? I don't think so. If it doesn't fall soon, then it will fall later. Meanwhile, it continues lingering overhead... making us neurotic and making honest investment very difficult. The saboteurs who created the mess continue to benefit. I hate that.
I believe that the longer the situation continues, the worse it will be when it does come down.
Finally, I think it would be terribly unjust if, by virtue of having already died, the ones most responsible miss the destruction that's coming. No, I want them to see what they've done and maybe even have to face the wrath of the world. They've certainly earned it.
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