On the financial system crisis: Yes boys and girls, we are all in for on truly awful ride in the not to distant future IMO. The good times have lasted too long and, as masa said, since the current financial system is inherently unstable, we are headed for the flipside of the coin. From my perspective things look as though they are going to screw up ala 1929 style, and not just a "minor recorrection" as all the lying bankers/ paid up 'analysts' are suggesting.