"Endgame".

[Mortblanc]

Everyone is looking for the "big event" when the actual slow whimpering decline is occurring as we speak.

Eventually we will all look back to a past decade and ask "what happened?"

I know that in my case I worked a 35 year career that saw my professional grade pay check multiply by 5, while the cost of living index multiplied by 12 over the same period.

While my pay was not indexed to COL my pension was, so when I retired I had a BOOST in income rather than reduction. I am still not caught up to my living standard of 1975!

I often wish I was back in the 1970s when Howard Ruff penned his first work of doom-saying and prediction of imminent collapse. That was in 1974 and he has had to update the basic work for each of the past 4 decades.

He is still making a good living selling the same book (Updated and re-copyrighted) , predicting the same collapse to people with the same fears of imminent disaster.

I would have taken a different path and gone into the disaster preparedness industry and started writing books with predictions of an open ended collapse with no specific date connected. It has been an upwardly moving market with a never ending supply of customers for the past 40 years.