The Dollar no longer serves a useful social purpose.

[Paul]

From one of my favorite economic writers, Paul Craig Roberts, comes this excellent summary of our current economic situation.

The US financial system and, probably, the financial system of Europe, like the police, no longer serves a useful social purpose.

In the US the police have proven themselves to be a greater threat to public safety than private sector criminals. I just googled “police brutality” and up came 183,000,000 results. (Here are two recent brutal assaults, one deadly, by police on hapless individuals: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...lling-me-.html and http://www.informationclearinghouse....ticle31364.htm )

The cost to society of the private financial system is even higher. Writing in CounterPunch (May 18), Rob Urie reports that two years ago Andrew Haldane, executive Director for Financial Stability at the Bank of England (the UK’s version of the Federal Reserve) said that the financial crisis, now four years old, will in the end cost the world economy between $60 trillion and $200 trillion in lost GDP. If Urie’s report is correct, this is an astonishing admission from a member of the ruling elite. http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/...k-crises/print

Try to get your mind around these figures. The US GDP, the largest in the world, is about 15 trillion. What Haldane is telling us is that the financial crisis will end up costing the world lost real income between 4 and 13 times the size of the current Gross Domestic Product of the United States. This could turn out to be an optimistic forecast.

In the end, the financial crisis could destroy Western civilization.

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[we-R-one]

I've been saying for a long time, the fastest way out of tyranny is to walk away from the dollar...... all of us.

[Operator]

Posted by Paul (here)
In the end, the financial crisis could destroy Western civilization.

Posted by we-R-one (here)
I've been saying for a long time, the fastest way out of tyranny is to walk away from the dollar...... all of us.

The money (not only dollars) religion is widely spread ... it will probably destroy ALL of civilization.
Mankind is rapidly becoming it's own natural disaster.