Remember 9/11, things were going to be so different after that day.  People promised they wouldn’t grind their lives away at dead end jobs or jobs they hated; People would reconcile differences with loved ones forever; Materialism was dead.    That lasted about 18 months then everyone went on a Hummer & McMansion binge that lead us to the financial crisis we have today.

I hear the same people saying that this financial crisis will lead us onto a new world:  A world of frugality and a simple way of life; a life based on cash transactions; a credit-less and debt free life filled with joy and happiness….

I wasn’t around for the Great Depression or World War II or Korea or Vietnam and barely a kid during the boom & bust of 80′s oil but I would imagine that the same things were said, “This time, things will be different.”

I suspect that in 18 months around spring 2010 or perhaps spring 2011, we’ll be up to our eyeballs in new & improved hydrogen fuel cell cars and solar paneled houses surfing the net on iPhone WiMax 5.0.   The financial collapse will be a distant memory as we bask in infrastructure and alternative energy bubbles cashing in on the boom.

It is the way of things my friends, history repeats itself over and over.  It is the cycle of creation, growth and death that we have been accustomed to and it will repeat itself again.    All you have to do is position yourself to cash in on the next wave and that’s all there is to getting rich slick……