Do you agree the economy can bounce back?

Yes, but it will take time and sacrifice. Many people will suffer and lose their life savings. We need strict oversight not the greed we have seen in the past by certain people:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4egXbhSOhk

in my personal opinion, as i have stated in the past, we are heading into another "great depression". of course the stock market will eventually crash. all we can do is postpone the inevitable. how many times in our nations history has the U.S. had a "balanced budget"? ONCE that i am aware of. yes this does in fact have a direct effect on the stock market whenever a gov. has this large of a debt, the economy suffers. with the current bail out situation where "we the people" are required to bail out a bunch of filthy rich, corrupt business people (oops, i mean companies) who knew in advance what the possible outcome would be, the people & the stock market will suffer. once the gov. starts bailing out these corrupt companies (thereby rewarding them for their corruption) more will follow. 1st we bail out Fanny & Freddie, then we bail out A.I.G. who's next & where & when will it stop? it will stop when the market crashes! not until.

the economy can & will bounce back but it will take a long long long time.

we bounced back from the "great depression", & we bounced back from the savings & loan crisis of the 1980's. WE WILL bounce back from this... eventually.

have-a-loving-day!

I say it depends. If you are 78 and your retirement investment is your primary source of income, you have the reason to try to shoot yourself in the head. But if you have some more years to go, you have no reason to choke unless, of course, your money is in the company that sells snake oil.

Certainly, the economy will bounce back. See, these banks have been around for decades. Many survived through the depression. If I have billions, I would even buy some of these suckers - like Warren Buffet is doing. Right now, I'm waiting to see George Soros comes on board.

I think that completely ignoring the warning signs is just like try to cover the sun by putting your thumb right against it. Just cause you can't watch it doesn't mean it isn't there. Most people are getting screw by their payments cause they didn't plan correctly or cause they try to make it anyway against all odds. If the economy decreases even more, then the banks will have to take money from people's savings cause you can't just stop trading, if investors are so concern about selling and selling to recover their investments, why regular people shouldn't be able to get what's rightfully theirs to protect themselves the same way big shots from Wall Street do?

I mean I'm not saying hey everybody go out and take everything home cause that will not help either and will cause a hell lot of trouble if we all pull out our funds at once, just be careful, think and act responsibly, be fairly informed, don't let yourself go into panic mode by those anti-capitalist who seek to induce terror so you end up messing unwillingly things even more.

If you don't see it then you are arrogant, this is a much bigger problem then before we have things now that they did not even have during the 30's like credit cards 3.50 a gallon for gas and a much bigger financial institution that when it fails it ruins everything. People are maxed out they are buying food with credit gas with credit and luxury's with credit. You say it couldn't be like the great depression I agree, I think it will be much much worse if they cannot fix it. But in the long run Yes I do believe it will get better.

The economy will bounce back. This bank collapse was engineered by the republicans (they run this scam historically) to enrich their friends. Bankers make some BIG BUCKS for making those bad loans.

And the question will be - how much richer will the billionaires be when it does bounce back? How much poorer will the average American be?

Vote Obama - Don't let these Neo-Cons do this to us again!

The rich ARE buying. It's how they get rich. They buy now when the rest of us are selling and they sell when the rest of us are buying.

if you think that the power of positive thinking can cure the deep problems of our financial system you are an idiot.