Wednesday, February 13, 2008

OPEC May Drop Dollar for Euro

As I've stated previously, for over 3 decades now, U.S. Oil pricing agreements with OPEC have provided THE foundation for the US dollar's elite status in the world and oil replaced gold (after being dropped by Nixon in 1971) as the backing for the World’s Reserve Currency.

We Americans, however, were never satisfied with just having a good thing, as we wanted our cake and needed to eat it too, so we racked up enormous/un-payable debts to pay for lots of guns and butter, sold toxic securitized AAA rated garbage to our best friends, family and business partners, squandered international goodwill through inept/arrogant foreign policy, and as of late, we’ve thrown all caution and common sense into the wind and are now vigorously trying to hyper-inflate our way out of this current deflationary banking/financial crisis.

Well it was great while it lasted, but the gig is nearly up.

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