Coincidentally that 14000 high was one year ago today. Off about 45% now at today's close.
Hard to stomach and hard to fathom but I think you're right about us eventually falling below 7000 Tiz. Like I think you said in your thread the stock market is only a precursor to the pain many of us will feel from day to day as this plays out.
Unemployment is about to skyrocket as commerce grinds to a creep.
But this ain't the thirties. This depression will play out much differently from an humanitarian standpoint.
Just guessing here but in the thirties I'd say at least half the population lived on farms. They were selfsufficient, resourceful. They believed in God and believed in His guidance. In short they took responsibility for themselves and internalized their problems.
This is a much different landscape. It's frightening to think how the spiritually bankrupt, narcissistic, dependent American of 2009 will react.
Frightening.