How'd you spend your weekend? Some of the biggest (and most bearish) guns in economic and market prognostication put their heads together at a small confab on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire this past weekend. In attendance: David Blanchflower, formerly of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England; Swiss doom-and-gloomer Marc Faber; Fred Hickey, the bearish editor of the High-Tech Strategist newsletter; Morgan Stanley exec Stephen Roach; and economic forecasters David Rosenberg, Nouriel Roubini and Gary Shilling.

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