danger that we will collapse into a new great depression. In the chart posted below you can see what he is talking about.  Once upon a time the total amount of debt in the United States (including government debt, business debt and consumer debt) was sitting at about a trillion dollars. Today, it has nearly reached 55 trillion dollars.... We have lived way above our means for decades, and now a day of reckoning is rapidly approaching. Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve may be able to delay the coming depression slightly, but they cannot avert it. End the Fed, enough said. I think we are headed for a great, great depression that will be very difficult to reverse. Schnook And no prattling about a gold standard either......it wouldn't save the day any more than any money supply that doesn't grow at the same rate as population. If you want no monetary inflation (fueled currently with an unbridled credit expansion), the amount of money in a system needs to stay fixed per person in the population (though not necessarily distributed equally in the population). Gold doesn't fit this bill anymore. Think about it..... Dave It isn't that easy. Paper money has to be tied to something that has worth. People are people. If paper money is not held to a something that has tangible worth, people will print it into oblivion. That is what is happening now. Gold has been that object for 5000 years. It is money. Paper money