The Way Ahead Is Down By Jim Cramer About this article: Sell everything. Nothing's working. Revisit when the prices are adjusted for a big recession, soaring inflation and a crushed consumer. Sell at 12,000 and come back at 10,000. Even better: short it. Are you going to argue with any of that? Do you have a case against it? What's the counter? Takeovers? We've had a couple: Anheuser-Busch, Wrigley. Good if you owned them. Lower rates? Can the Fed help? We assume the Fed is done. The odds favor higher rates. Bank turnarounds? How, with short-rates going up? With housing prices going down? Can oil go down? Only with a worldwide crash, and with a worldwide crash, why would we come back at 10,000? Can the consumer get more liquid? How? Unemployment's going higher. Wages won't go up in that environment. That's the environment. It's pretty bulletproof when it comes to its logic. In fact, there's really only one thing... Or, call us at 1-866-321-TSCM (8726) Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. ET. Outside the U.S. and in Canada, call 1-212-321-5200.

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