next shoe Eastern Europe? this guy thinks so http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/03/23/ccfed123.xml
"From 1986 through 1995, 1,043 savings banks with over $500 billion in assets failed, costing taxpayers $75.6 billion, according to a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. analysis." http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?...UVjA&refer=home Think about it."1986 through 1995" Post 1929 failures were 1930-4 if I remember rightly, in the face of a market that rallied '32 - '34 if I remember rightly, but that is still two years to reach the low. Two defacto (CFC, BSC) mortgage bond bankrutcies could be the tip of the iceberg as far as mortgages go, let alone unsecured CC and autoloan debt.
Keep it in mind that it is election year. These martkets are propped up artificially. Next year the market will be in the crapper, maybe DOW 10000-11000?