sadly. I do LOVE this country. But when individual and corp. don't need to take responsibilites, the risk taker don't take the concequence, the beauty of capitalism is gone with wind. For long term, US will step in a long long long bear market. It will be very hard to invest the right sector or corp. However, the economy has nothing to do with trade stocks, at least in short term. So, it does not have much choice left.