The reason most people don’t pay attention to doom and gloomers is because they’ve heard it all before and the D&Gs have always been proven wrong. The demise of the US economic system has been predicted before and it never happened. Losers like Ruff, Batra, Precter(sp?) make a good living selling D&G senarios that never happen. Oh they produce very convincing data and charts to convince you but they are just guessing. Nobody knows anything.