well I have a choice of articles in todays news...both done by experts I'm sure.
"Bubble talk catches fire among big-money pros"
or
"9 reasons the U.S. economy is stronger than you think"
always good to have a choice...I guess...didn't read either.
So, I’ve been thinking about this lately. Over the course of my life there were supposed to be all sort of calamities and dire warnings of doom and apocalypse. What I’ve learned in my 60 plus years is that nothing seems to ever be as bad as the ‘experts’ claim.
The sixties had us digging bomb shelters in our backyards, stocking up on food and readying for nuclear attack.
If that didn’t happen, we were going to be all starving from massive overpopulation within 20 years.
The seventies brought us warnings about running out of oil. By now, all the oil was supposed to be gone and we were going to be living by candlelight and riding bicycles.
The ‘albedo effect’ was going to bring about global cooling not seen since the ice age, which, coupled to the demise of oil, one would assume we’d all freeze to death.
In the eighties the AIDS virus was “a mere mutation or two” away from being able to be contracted as easily as the common cold or flu.
The nineties saw us worrying about global warming, which then became climate change.
More recently, we had the BP Gulf oil spill which many billed as “the greatest environmental disaster in the history of mankind”.
I'm not saying that many of these issues did not impact certain people, but the severity and “end of life as we know it” never seems to materialize.