Actually, can you just confirm, when you wrote:
"Alt-A default, Eastern Europe in the hands of the IMF, revolution in China and the break up of the Euro - THEN - we might be coming out of the other side of this as long as Iran hasn't started detonating atom bombs.
Give it 18 months"
Is that 18 months until Iran drops a nuclear bomb on Gloucester, until China burns with revolution (how would that work anyway? Will they demand bureaucracy?), until the Euro collapses leaving 1 billion people without jobs, homes, running water or copies of the Daily Mail, or until the IMF buys the governments of Eastern Europe?? Or is it all three?!