“Four years ago at this exact hour, John McCain had a lead coming out of a very successful convention. Nobody had any idea a series of events was going to unfold that brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse,” Schmidt said Thursday. “It effectively ended the campaign.”

Nobody except a handful of people on this site and a few others that had been warning of such a collapse since at least 2004. A lot of us are warning about another to arrive very soon. My wife just read an article where a rancher was feeding his cattle candy because it was cheaper than corn. That is a bad sign if there ever was one!