Don't believe the fearmongerning!
The stock market will not "collapse" 50% in 2014. Sure, they will go down some day, but it will not be in 2014! Typical play on emotions, stay away from those fraudsters!
The only way that would happen is if there was a new world war on the anniversary of the 1st world war.
100 years and what's changed is that a known enemy is now an unknown enemy.
As for the stock market, they need to specify what stocks he-he or they are just trolling, some parts will do well in a recession, others will crash hard or revalue.
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The stock market is way overbought thus why metals are tanking. I'd expect the market to take a tumble next year when the market realizes this. You'll want to be holding metals you bought cheap when it begins.