Where do you get this time frame that the recession will last 10 years? What if right after elections, the bulls come roaring out?? Then what, you will still buy in 2015?? I dont put timeframes, I just listen to politicians and Wallstreet and ofcourse research individual companies, gosh I wonder what Buffett's day is like coz the little research I do is overwhelming. LOL ati hii sio ndoa, since I dont have funds i'm in and out of the markets, though I dont short, too complicated for me. Now you and I both know 1,000% returns is an impossibility, ok maybe except in Zim. Good luck with that in the US.The only way, that I know of, that you can make a tenth of that in the US is through futures, another game that I dont understand and Buffett advises against, and like someone said, I tend to take him seriously

Economic cycles usually have 10-15yr boom-busts. For example, Zim's decline started in 2000 and bottomed in 2009. My entry point was 2006 during hyper-inflation and a dysfunctional currency. So it can be seen we got it for da low!

How can the Zim economy run on forex and Kenya can't? It's because it mines gold,platinum,palladium,steel,coal,diamonds,chrome,nickel ferrochrome e.t.c (42 different resources in total), has vast tobacco & cotton exports, great tourism (Victoria Falls) - all that wealth divided amongst a popn.of only 15M of Africa's most literate people.

QE was used to repair balance sheets and driving up wall-street instead of creating jobs in the real economy. That I refer to as zero-calorie money. Even our Kazi Kwa Vijana did better under our stimulus package alongside building roads & connecting more to electricity . Bernanke won't raise rates now but come after the polls and he is off in retirement, they'll go up. This is not about personalities, just basic economics and monetary policy. Too much money doing nothing (US) or doing too much (China) leads to inflation, simple. How do U arrest it? Raise interest rates to mop it up. Obama promised construction jobs in exchange for stimulus. Where are they? Republicans are taking control, no more freebies!

Wait a minute...too much money doing nothing leads to deflation due to lack of spending. That's even worse!! The govt.will almost be the only business man in the economy (like pre 09 Zim) as the US corporates holds on to cash in bank. More job losses coming up.