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Wheels coming off?

Bye, bye Money... sniff. Now, I would love to deflect the seriousness of the economic troubles we've seen so far and what seems to be coming "down the pike," with sarcasm. Would that it'd work to stave off the jittery nervousness... Today was a bad day at the international, craps table . Even relatively calm, staid even, investors are getting a wee bit dodgy. I'm not liking the looks of this slow-motion train wreck one little bit. I had to liquidate my paltry 401(k) a few years ago, so I don't have much dough on the table. Though, I can just imagine how painful it must be for others who were contemplating retirement in the next few years... it's almost as if the timing is just too coincidental to be, well, simply coincidental . To see your portfolio value drop by double digit percentage points every quarter must be at minimum, disconcerting... There are a dozen or so "baby boomers," in my office that seriously were plotting retirement in the nex...