In September 2007, I predicted the current recession, the Fed dropping the federal funds rate to zero, deflation, home mortgage interest rates “will drop below 5 percent and possibly 4 percent,” and numerous other things. Of those numerous other things I also said the Dow Jones Industrials will drop below 8,000 and “possibly” drop below 6,000.
My suggesting the Dow could plummet below 6,000 is not a 100% prediction, more of a strong feeling, a musing of a possibility that represents how weak the economy has become under the disastrous Republican economic policies of the last thirty years. And so we may yet reach that sad stage as billions of dollars of illusionary money disappears.
The below 6,000 possibility is now in sight. But we’re not likely to reach there overnight, it’s more a matter of months if we ever reach it, and there is yet a good possibility such a dubious outcome can be had.
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