Years? The global debt crisis hits this year when Greece defaults. Pension funds will collapse (as bonds collapse and interest rates shoot up) across the West into 2018. You'll see nationalism, civil unrest in the next 18 to 24 months. You already see the beginning of the street protests by right leaning nationalists in Quebec. They wouldn't have marched a couple years ago.  Think global - nothing is in isolation. The trend is underway, there are a few trading against it like our Prime Minister, but he can't change the trend.