Our monetary and economic sins are flagrant. If this is the onset of an inflationary depression, the paper money that has greased our way through the decades can become our greatest liability. A lot of people in America have been taught to believe that a little inflating is good. Unfortunately, a little invariably turns into a lot. We've been lucky for a long time.
Good things seem to come in bunches, but so does the bad.
We must hope that this is not the advent of a string of misfortunes. There's too many dollars in the world for its value to hold up through a series of economic problems.