Here’s the bottom line. The bear market has returned in force and while financial manipulation from global central banks could stem the speed of the decline, make no mistake about it….2010 will likely go down in the history books as the year of the most shocking global financial collapse in history.

Could the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank (ECB) and other central banks around the world prevent the coming collapse until 2011 or even 2012? While anything is possible, I assign odds of this at just 20%...this situation is just that grave. On top of this, the money is simply not there for “global financial system bail-out part 2”. The world is awash in tens of trillions in dramatically overpriced toxic debt and the smart money around the world smells blood. We have now entered a vicious negative news cycle which will look like 2008, but this time instead of simply having to deal with the subprime crisis and insolvent commercial and investment banks, the 2010 version of this finan...