On May 31, 5:42*pm, brad herschel wrote:
The crisis is accelerating and will become worse week by week until
the whole system grinds into a collapse, likely sometime this year.
And when it does, it will be the greatest collapse since the fall of
the Roman Empire.

At least it doesn't sound as bad as the Y2K disaster predicted a few
years ago on Usenet:

"Millions will suffer--millions will die--around the world and nation"

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....ll+die+%22+y2k