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THE GREAT LEESBURG BUST OF 2006

Bankers Association Warns of Bust

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

April 8, 2006

The world as a whole is currently teetering on the edge of the greatest financial collapse in modern history. In keeping with the nature of the freedom of the human's power of choices, there is no fixed date for this already onrushing event. However, since even the freest of human wills is bound within the limits defined by the reality of current processes, the crash will be soon, perhaps very soon. Nonetheless, most people will deny this reality until after the crash has hit with hurricane force; after the crash has come, even then, many of them will continue to deny what has occurred, that for a lapse of time of months, or, in some cases, as after 1929, for several or more years.

So today, when the basic economic infrastructure and industry of the U.S.A. have been eroding visibly since 1977: at a time, even now, when entire states and regions are already in a deep physical-economic, depression, there are many poor souls who continue to support an intellectually crippled President George W. Bush, Jr.'s insistence that our actually collapsing U.S. economy is growing. When the crash hits with full force, as it will soon, many of these protesters will fly into a rage, tearing themselves to pieces, as did the fabled Rumpelstiltskin, denouncing every statement and every thing which points out that the great crash has actually occurred.

I have observed, especially since January 1996, that, there was then, and, is still now, a strong tendency toward a virtually schizophrenic form of quality of disassociation in reaction to any hard "bad news" about the economy. This wishful neurotic tendency was widespread, and has spilled over even among those associated with me here in the U.S.A., and also abroad. I can report from such close experience, that the form this denial takes, has often occurred in the form of an emotional disconnection between the discussion of a forecast financial crisis, and the sense of the real world of personal daily life. Such is often the state of mind, among that generation of modern sophists born between the end of World War II and the deep economic U.S. recession of 1957-1958....

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