Reply #3: Expect the overall trend to be down

[Warpy]

but the fall will be in slow motion.

We won't get back to a better market until this country does a 180 in fiscal policy, and that won't happen until conservatives in both parties are out of power for at least two years.

Hunker down, pay off debt if you have it, and just prepare for a few years of suck before things get better.