I thank you for your reassurances.
It's my hope that Matt is panicking, and that this will be more of a correction than a crash. I really have no way of objectively knowing for myself- I'm not plugged into the financial world, nor have I traveled around the globe to look for myself.

Matt is a very sharp guy and extremely well informed- I wouldn't want to go into more detail about him in a public forum for obvious reasons, but I will say that his information is far better than mine, and his estimates of what will happen are certainly better informed than mine. That said, he is in fact human and prone to errors of judgment like the rest of us.

In short, I really hope that the Captain and Citadel and PJM are correct. Right about now things are already going mad enough in my life that this would be just the fucking cherry on top of the shit cake.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 16 Sep 2008, 13:00, Reply)