"I have come to the conclusion that there is a one in three chance that we could be sliding into a 8 to 16 year global depression"...after reading your post on 10/29/2008..Hobbies...and viewing your profile which seem you have had considerable 121 heavy glass training and are now self employed...I'm curious to know how and where did you get the data to this senerio.. you do have to admit 331/3% probabilty is pretty bold even with the elastity present in the global ecconomic supply and demand curves..and I don't mean to be argumentive but just informative...I appreciate your post...bgds...SonicBoomer.