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1. Faber: The 'American Empire' has peaked, is on a decline
Once a society becomes successful it becomes arrogant, righteous, overconfident, corrupt, and decadent ... overspends ... costly wars ... wealth inequity and social tensions increase; and society enters a secular decline."
2. Grantham: Learned nothing, doomed to repeat past, only bigger
3. Stiglitz: Wall Street creating short respite before next crash
4. Johnson: Running out of time before Great Depression 2
5. Ferguson: Fed's easy money fuels new bubbles, meltdowns
6. Taleb: Fed haunted by ghost of Greenspan's failed Reaganomics
"The world has never, never been as fragile," yet Obama reappoints an economist who "doesn't even know he doesn't understand how things work."
7. Soros: Dollar dead as a reserve currency, nest eggs dying
"The system is broken. The current crisis marks the end of an era of credit expansion based on the dollar as the international reserve currency," warns Soros. "We're now in a period of wealth destruction. It is going to be very hard to preserve your wealth in these circumstances."
8. Hedgers: make billions shorting stupid politicians, bankers
Lots of hedge fund buddies made hundreds of millions and billions betting on the stupidity of Washington with the Fed's cheap-money policies. Alpha magazine reports that four hedgers made more than $1 billion each in 2008.
9. Shiller: Dot-com, subprime meltdowns, 'third episode' next
10. Kaufman: Irrationality replaced reason, science, technology
Why can we land men on the moon with pinpoint accuracy, yet fail to steer our economy away from the rocks?
11. Biggs: Sell everything, buy guns, food, head for the hills
former Morgan Stanley research guru Barton Biggs warns us to prepare for a "breakdown of civilization.
12. Diamond: Nations ignore obvious till it's too late, then collapse