Plan B, Instal the Fall GuyClearly, the so called "maestro" has failed miserably and he doesn't want to be held accountable for the damage he has done and for the misery about to be inflicted upon masses of people all over the world. So, the US politicians decide it is time to resort to plan B, in order to save Alans face and blame it all upon a fall guy named Bernanke. The economic debacle is about to ensue and develop into a raging storm of mammmoth proportions. The US has sucked in the savings and capital of the rest of the world, and will now crank up the printing presses to monetize it's huge debts in order to avoid debt default. IOUs will be honoured and paid to those who redeem or sell their US dollars, but in drasticly devalued toilet paper. What a way for these foreigners to get wiped! Perhaps, it is also their own fault for trusting in "paper" and being sucked into the biggest financial scam that was ever perpetrated in history. THE STING WILL HURT BILLIONS Maybe Greenspan will be pulling the strings from behind the curtain and is only pretending to retire, but he can avoid the limelight if things turn ugly and blame a dupe or fall guy which has just replaced him. How convenient. Never trust a banker. The rug is about to be pulled out from under those holding "paper", and US inflation will soar due to the severe loss in the purchasing power of it's fiat currency unbacked by gold. Higher US interest rates will be necessary to avoid flight of capital to foreign currency, and even then it may not be enough of an inducement to hold "paper" in what is a technically bankrupt company, the US. I'll take gold or tangible commodities in lieu of paper anytime, but given a choice I would rather hold foreign currency in a country which is financially solvent paying a low rate of interest rather than accept a high rate from the US which likely is an absconding debtor. Soon, foreign exchange controls could be imposed upon Americans trying to get out of US dollars, and even on foreigners who hold US accounts and property. THE GAME OF MUSICAL CHAIRS IS ABOUT TO BEGIN. Don't be caught holding US currency. The US will experience a hyper-inflationary depression, while also experiencing a deflation in the value of stocks, bonds, and real estate but only in terms of the loss of value relative to the value of a US "dollar". If a house is worth $500,000 today, but money is hyperinflated 10 times or 1,000 percent, and the house remains valued at $500,000 after the hyperinflation, then adjusted for inflation the house would only be worth $50,000 pre-hyper-inflation!!!! The only way that the house would keep up with that rate of inflation would be if it will appreciate to a market value of $5,000,000. The world does not learn even from recent history, since you may recall how in 1971 Nixon closed the gold window when the French wanted gold to redeem their US currency holdings. K winter (Kondratieff) is coming on Bernanke's watch, not on Greenspans.