Predicting the direction of markets, well, if I could do it I would not be wasting my time here, I'd be sunning on one of my Pacific islands. The best we have in the case of markets is usually hindsight. Right now hindsight is telling us that we screwed the pooch using neo-con economics, hopefully next year's hindsight will be better. using something new. Otherwise, one man's feeling is really as good as the next's. I think we are looking at two years of hard times, and the gamble is going to be whether or not we build an actual 21st Century economy, something the Bush team failed miserably at. Obama, thanks to the American system, now gets his swing at the ball. Let's all hope it works out, unless of course you've had a Limbaughtomy, and you are hoping you end up in the poor house.