Hello Ron
I enjoyed your blog post, which, I think, was intended to make your readers sit up and think.
I voted on your poll as well - what I voted on (50%) was probabilities as opposed to possibilities, and the specific question of whether the US stock market would realize the sharp decline it did in 2008.
I think that given the amount of money tied up in boomer real estate that is coming online as they scale down, the likelihood (=possibility, as opposed to probability) that the stock market (and by that I mean the US public markets) will take a dive like that experienced in 2008, is closer to 15%, as opposed to my 50% vote.
Unforeseen political upheavals and geographic events - more likely the latter than the former - as we, and I include our oilsands in this (I am a Canadian), recklessly ruin the heritage given to us by our forefathers, will no doubt move the dial towards 50% but these would, in my opinion, be black swan events.
I remain an eternal optimistic of our fellow humankind.
Kind regards and a pleasant weekend
Savio