[keithwalton]

I think its one of those cases where if you focus on somthing it'll happen.

An example was when i did some advanced driver training, in the situation the instructer said if you are trying to avoid an accident with a tree! (in our case a cone) you have to focus on the gap in between the trees, if you do you'll mis the tree. If however you focus on the tree (cone) you will hit it square on with the car.

It was a good practical example as we were going along he'd throw cones into our path to avoid, he was correct in every time we locked onto the cone, bam we hit it.

If in this case you think you're going to have a recession then sure enough you'll have one. If you convince yourselves you'll boom then that might just happen also. I do remember a few years ago (dont know if its still the case) that the Japanese economy is only holding up because people spend, spend, spend. Which is great people have lots of stuff spend loads of money and earn loads of money. As soon as they decide to save for tomorrow, thats it the whole thing will collapse.

As they say you've got to spend money to make money