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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5868262" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>There are natural business cycles that keep the economy strong including necessary recessions.  But when the government tries to artificially keep recessions from happening what you end up with are bubbles that burst a lot more strongly than would have happened without the government interference.  And, with the quantitive easing, recessions have been pushed back until now we're looking at an everything bubble that could lead to a deflationary spiral, a depression, that could take decades to recover from.  It happened to us in the 30's, and Japan is only now recovered from a deflationary period that started in the 90's.  China and Germany are both in serious danger, and we are too.  I hope all these experts I'm reading are wrong but the government that put us here doesn't inspire confidence to get us out of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>