# How bad is the economy in your country?

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**Created:** [January 22, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234 "2009-01-22T23:15:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-bad-is-the-economy-in-your-country/25234/30 "2009-02-15T02:45:25Z")

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Tacitus nailed it right here on this forum - just a couple of weeks after the banking stocks made their all-time high.

> [@Our collective economic ass is about to get kicked, hard and rude.](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/our-collective-economic-ass-is-about-to-get-kicked-hard-and-rude/2464):
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> this is an excerpt from today’s New York Times… it is what you might call a masterpiece of understatement, if you know what I mean… the backchannel rumors are on the brink of sheer terror.. this is, if you read closely, about the potential collapse of a 6.5 TRILLION dollar market, even a minor downturn in this decade long money machine spells major trouble if they can’t unbreak it quick… everybody’s in denial, and de Nile ain’t just a river in Egypt: "Now, as then, Wall Street firms and entrepr…

Here is Lehman brothers for example

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