Originally Posted by BrianMSmith

Thanks to just about everybody spending someone else's money during the "renegade financial leveraging" boom.....on houses, cars, boats, tvs, designer clothes, vacations........, almost nobody can afford a new car these days, and likely for some time to come....the only people with money to spend are people who know better and won't be spending money anyway, or the few people like me who just turned 40 and bought their first sports car, which they can easily afford, because they spent 20 years living within their means, saving money, building skills, experience, and leadership which are MORE valuable in a recession, rather than less valuable....my career has never been stronger or more secure.