Monday, March 17, 2008

Worst Since 1945

"The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War." - Alan Greenspan in a Financial Times commentary today.

Kenneth Rogoff, the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and now a professor at Harvard University, said the greenback may drop another 12 percent on a trade-weighted basis. ``This recession will be long and deep and when we get out of it, we'll have inflation,'' Rogoff said in an interview. ``Confidence in the dollar is down.'' - bloomberg.com today

Stephen Schork, alluding to expectations that crude prices were ready for a correction. "After all, the U.S. economy is circling the bowl and the fundamentals have to catch up to the market at some point." editor of Schork Report - on Yahoo Finance today

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