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Pretty ominous words from Very Important People published today.
"The economy faces a slump deeper than the Great Depression and a growing deficit threatens the credit of the United States itself, former Goldman Sachs chairman John Whitehead, said at the Reuters Global Finance Summit on Wednesday.
Whitehead, 86, said the prospect of worsening consumer credit woes combined with an overtaxed federal government make him fear that the current slump is far from over.
"I think it would be worse than the depression," Whitehead said. "We're talking about reducing the credit of the United States of America, which is the backbone of the economic system." Whitehead encountered plenty of crises during his 38 years at the investment banking firm and was a young boy during the 1930s."
http://www.reuters.com/article/F…
``We think the economy could be worse than the capital- markets crisis,'' [JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie] Dimon said. ``You really need to separate them because they have completely different effects on our businesses and on most businesses.''
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/ne…
“Right now, the US economy is contracting very rapidly. We are looking at a per­iod of global slowdown,” John Thain, chairman and chief executive of Merrill Lynch told investors. “This is not like 1987 or 1998 or 2001. The contraction going on is bigger than that. We will in fact look back to the 1929 period to see the kind of slow­down we’re seeing now.”