Thanks, I almost put Dent's book back on the shelf at Borders, until I read on the jacket that he expected a wicked selloff late in '05. If he'd been all about 'straight to the stratosphere' I would have left it there. Maybe he doesn't speak that to audiences and you make sense as to why.
As with any book, I will learn some things... which is why I bought sailing for dummies too, though i've been sailing since I was a young tike. Dent's use of demographics should be enlightening. Though for years, it's been suggested that the bust in the markets will come in ~ 2009 because the boomers will start retiring en masse and dipping into equities.
Alas, when something is predicted by so many, so early, does it come?
The white man seeks to conquer nature, to bend it to his will and to use it wastefully until it is all gone and then he simply moves on, leaving the waste behind him and looking for new places to take. Chiksika (Kispokotha Shawnee),March 19,1779