The First lady (my wife) and me got creamed today (on paper). It is not over yet.
On the brighter side of things, gold is going up, and you don't loose anything unless you sell.
To address another poster's concern (forgot which one), there are sooo many dollars out there, that if your bank goes under (which it probably won't), the local pawn shop has cash (among other businesses).
When this happened at the end of the Bush administration, the LSM blamed Bush (his administration), and a couple of Wall Street bankers.
Methinks you won't hear a peep out of the state controlled media blaming 0bama and his regime.
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Without reviewing my notes from back then, I remember the concensus here at fr was that is was the homosexual Barney Frank and the democrats who were solely responsible for the financial crisis of 2008!
In addition, I remember watching O'Reilly when he had Frank on the program and O'Reilly was practically screaming at the queer Frank when Frank tried to switch the blame to Bush and the GOP.
Frank, like hillary this week, looked like a deer caught in the headlights when faced with the indisputable facts that O'Reilly laid out correctly showing how he, Frank himself, and the Democrats were fully responsible. As that Frank interview was coming to a close, I specifically remember that Frank had no rebuttal of the facts O'Reilly presented.