Is money all that you’re losing?

October 10th, 2008, 9:54 am · 4 Comments · posted by Mark Landsbaum

If you think this economic situation and the plunging stock market are making you crazy, you may be right.

The Washington Post reports that mental health woes are increasing as wealth is decreasing. Could you be losing your mind, as well as your savings?

“Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are already affected by mental problems such as depression and bi-polar disorders and the current market meltdown could exacerbate feelings of despair among people vulnerable to such illnesses,” says the Post story.

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Wow says:

October 10, 2008 at 1:10 pm

That’s not exactly it. It’s Keynes Economics, which is what every American who lives within their means subscribe to, versus Brookings Economics, which is the economics of the greedy–”I know, we’ll just print more money!” Brookings economics is collapsing. Keynes’ economics (old-style American) is not.

If Bush doesn’t go quietly or they rig another election, Americans will have to get a District Attorney to arrest him (and Cheney and Paulson and Rumsfeld and Greenspan and Bernanke) and a warrant to search the white house and their offices and seize their files etc and computers. Many believe this is intentional–read the army times-Bush brought troops home from Iraq to declare Martial Law on Americans on Oct 1st.

Read your Bibles and turn to God for support.

Jose says:

October 10, 2008 at 7:51 pm

Remember when Bush wanted to privatize Social Security and allow seniors to invest in the market. Sure looks like many seniors have some steadfast politicians to thank for not allowing the Bushiteconomics plan to pass.

Catfish says:

October 13, 2008 at 1:40 pm

Privatizing Social Security is the only solution to keeping social security solvent. Even if people put their retirment savings in a CD or a money market they would come out ahead in the long run. Privatizing Social Security does not necessarily mean putting yur money in the stock market. If I had a chance at my social security contributions I would be putting most of money in the stock market right now. Jose you are very ignorant and probably think that Gov’t will protect your interests, but depending on the Gov’t will only make you poor in the long run.

BILL says:

January 30, 2009 at 11:25 am

Catfish, please dont try to explain what is right to jose…He is obviously a new left wing socialist wacko who probably works at wal mart.

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