There is certainly something true on that warning.
However, I think we should understand that all kinds of people tend to overreact everything and take it too extreme (me too).
I do not know whether the worst economic depression will come, but also understand that all problems that we see will not pass away and disappear quickly.
And there are many problems.
I agree that the FED is responsible for most of theese problems, mainly due to the incredibly low interest rates throughout the 00's. I think that if there were much higher interest rates all over the World, we would not face most of the problems.
However, when it comes to interest rates, we can probably do little with it now. I thought that the interest rates could be drasticaly increased at once and then steadily decreased at a very little number. But at this point, it would probably make many busiesses collapse.
I would like to ask you, what you think of the bailout plans?
I really do not like the fact that governments all over America and Europe bail out the huge financial dinosaurs.
I am very aware that the collapse of theese banks could ruin the savings of some people, but I also think that there is some other way of saving people's savings and letting the banks live or die on their own.
Rather, I think we should try to support new and small businesses, mainly with very low taxes and bureaucrucy (this applies especially in Europe) and that some of them might replace the huge ones in the future.
Other big problem that I see (and which Rich Dad predicted) is that the savings of many pensioners or pensioners to be have decreased a lot.
I really do not understand why I cannot read much about this anywhere, while THIS can be a potentional time-bomb in our system.
If the things go worse, then we will probably understand, after all, that the social security system was not working well.
But many pensioners will pay for that..
On a more positive sight, I think that the institutions we have are more prepared to fight a deppression. The stock market has suffered the most, but the real wealth, land, commodities, jobs, PEOPLE and more, have not lost their real value.
Even if its paper value decreases a lot, then it will still have its usage value...
Finaly, as I just read in a pretty long article in czech, big crisises often bring new innovative solutions and ideas and new leadership personalities.
And man has to grow in order to overcome the crisis.
So, if we come out of this alive (
), we will come out of it stronger and more determined to what really matters.
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As one last thing, I would like us all to think about a question (since we are the philosophers, who would be more responsible for responding it?
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How can the global economic system become less dependant on people's spending?
This question demands a radical question. But the one who answers it could save us from the economic depressions and change the World.