Ron Paul  Ron Paul  10/29/2009 @ 9:20AM  Be Prepared for the
Worst  Any number of pundits claim that we have now passed the
worst of the recession. Green shoots of recovery are supposedly
popping up all around the country, and the economy is expected
to resume growing soon at an annual rate of 3% to 4%. Many of
these are the same people who insisted that the economy would
continue growing last year, even while it was clear that we were
already in the beginning stages of a recession.  A false
recovery is under way. I am reminded of the outlook in 1930,
when the experts were certain that the worst of the Depression
was over and that recovery was just around the corner. The
economy and stock market seemed to be recovering, and there was
optimism that the recession, like many of those before it, would
be over in a year or less. Instead, the interventionist policies
of Hoover and Roosevelt caused the Depression to worsen, and the
Dow Jones industrial average did not recover to 1929 levels
until 1954. I fear that o