th n sasacvetkovic33 What bothers me most by the soft-landing talk on Wall Street is the fact commodity cycles require a downside. If you skip downturns to cool demand and rebalance supply, you will find yourself in an endless mathentatical loop of shortages, where prices climb or are flat, year after year. I don't think the average Wall Street analyst small retail investor understands the "need" for recessions. At the same time, everyone likes to complain about nising inflation. Well, you cannot have your ...