Originally Posted by greazzer

Well, it's not a rant as someone called it. It lays out facts. I intentionally did not draw any conclusions from it nor did I put a "spin" on it. As for it being omnius, it certainly does sound that way. I left it open to the reader to draw their own inferences and conclusions. Some even said it was a conspiracy. All of this is very interesting to me. What it most likely signals that in a short period of less than 5 years, the US dollar as the reserve currency of the world as well as the flagship if you will among the world currencies is rapidly declining to the point where countries are abandoning it as a medium of exchange. Maybe it's because of our policies where we placed sanctions or embargos on other countries. That possibility is really not plausible, however. I suspect as we reached a point where we were converging on doubling our national debt and printed money like it was going out of style during the last 4-5 years is the main reason why folks throughout the world no longer percieve our currency as the cats pajamas it used to be. It was even seriously debated that the executive office would mint a 1 trillion dollar coin to temporaily resolve our fiscal issues less than a year ago. For those in the "middle", my guess is that it all means nothing. For those on the far right, it evidences that B.O. is helping to dismantle our society and world standing. For those on the far left, it must signal exceptional stewardship of our national economy.

I perceive and interpet these facts and developments as not something in the middle.