Quote from: RE on Jan 18, 2026, 10:35 PMI don't peg BS as the starting point for collapse, merely as the starting point for when I began to pay attention to it and chronicle the progress.
Okay, fair enough. So, how long HAS your definition of collape, that according to you is well along even if opaque to...everyone else....been chugging along?
Quote from: REQuote from: TDOSYes, you have said it is in progress. But if Bear Stearns is your starting gun, I picked a better one for the idea, and here we are....119 years later after my better example. Apparently even larger bad economic events don't cause collapse and you want to pretend a little local one will? Or worse yet....IS? Come on.You are confusing cause and effect.
Not really. You can't even THINK about what I do without having that one locked down.
Quote from: REBear Stearn isn't causing the collapse of industrial civilization, it's one of the effects.
A fairly small one in the grand scheme of things, but significant enough to get me curious enough to start paying attention to what was ongoing.
RE
Fair enough to catch someone's attention. But you aren't stupid...what is wrong the Panic of 1907, which was far worse than BS. How about the the 13 economic recessions since WWII? The Great Recession (2008) and the The Greatest Recessions Since The Great Depression (Covid)?
It isn't as though you can be characterized as someone who wouldn't do the most basic look-see and realize BS was....nothing in the overall economic picture. Just another gambler in mortgage finance getting their comeuppance for being stupid.