#1: Unemployment will rise QUICKLY to AT LEAST 10% (16% if you include all unemployed).

#2: We will see an unstoppable chain reaction of bankruptcies.

#3: The government will have to GIVE UP saving most "too-big-to-fail" companies.

#4: The federal deficit will balloon to at least $2 Trillion.

#5: The Dow Jones Industrial Average will plunge to 5500.

#6: The real estate collapse will enter a new, more advanced phase.

#7: 2009 will be the year of the Great Financial Dustbowl, striking all forms of INCOME.