Several years ago I heard a radio DJ say that with the obesity problem in the world today, the earths

crust will collapse from our combined weight!!!!!  How about that one??!!!!

BigNeerav

I doubt it, unless today's date is December 21, 2012 (the end of the Mayan Calendar)!

Even they don't think it is the end of the world, it is just the end of a 52-year cycle for them.  I don't expect anything interesting to happen in 2012...as long as the bees are still alive by 2009-2010.

RiskTaker.... yes, I heard about the bees dying out too!!  That is scary!! 

And, I don't think a world wide economic crash will happen in the next 4-5 years, but the thing is about these things, THEY ARE RARELY SEEN COMING  (and the people that do pedict them are sidelined as kooks(spelling?))  

Lesson?  Don't talk about it to your friends, but have some mental awareness and at least a modest savings/nest egg(preferrebly in non-paper form, ie physical silver or gold)

Well at least we aren't at hyperinflationary stages yet where we have to take a whole suitcase full of money to the store because our money is so worthless ans we have to mortgage what few of us have houses that wern't repoed in the financial mortgage/housing mess.

Maybe I should think about buying some stock in cardboard makers??? HMMMM>>>> homeless usually live in boxes don't they??? Seriously I hope noone becomes homeless, I've seen it first hand when I was in Chicago in Sept 2006. Not a pretty sight. It truly makes you realize how thankful we all can be for what we do have. One can only hope none of us become homeless because of this financila mess we are all in?? Financial sector/Housing, construction are ripe for the picking. They are about beaten down as far as they can go pricewise I think. Plus we all know Metals are a good hedge bet.