A QUEDA DO IMPÉRIO :

Money News - CNBC - 10 August 2011 - clique aqui .
É uma depressão em estágios iniciais, e que vai durar anos. Robert Prechter, Elliot Wave Int´l Inc.
"Some people are talking that maybe we'll have a double dip like 1980 to 1982, but I've been saying all along that this is the wrong perspective. You have to realize that we are in a depression," Prechter told CNBC. "We're in the early stages, so we don't have the severe unemployment, the severe bread lines and that sort of thing. But since we are early in the trend, this is the kind of thing that the market is now beginning to look ahead and realize that the problem is deeper than just a minor recovery or a mild recession," he adds. That doesn't mean investors need to run to the hills in panic and prepare for the end of days. It means they should prepare for a bear market to last for about five years and look for opportunities in such a scenario.