[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] sillyboy44 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] King Vegeta [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] sillyboy44 The whole article is predicated on the idea that the US Dollar is about to collapse, which it won, and that hyperinflation will ensue, which it won't.[/quote] LOL!!!!! What? The debt has exponentially increased. The dollar has already failed. And yes, creating ghost money (They no longer print it, just add 0s onto bank accounts) it devalues every existing dollar and has interest attached. That creates inflation and raises the price of all goods while simultaneously making the dollars you spend lower in value. By the way, the debt just reached [url=http://www.usdebtclock.org/]$15.7 trillion[/url] only days ago and steadily increasing. [/quote] The dollar hasn't failed. That's crap. Check out monetarism and you'll see why printing/creating currency doesn't always equal inflation (particularly relevant to the US at this time). Inflation is in a very comfortable zone and has been for years. The amount of spending should stay at roughly the same level for the moment until the recovery is sustainable. Things are still fickle right now, but there are signs of improvement (unemployment figures are foremost among such indicators). Any serious contraction in fiscal policy will do more harm than good right now. Having said that, it will pose a problem in the medium term if things don't change. Debt is only bad when the borrower has no capacity to pay. The US has such a capacity and it will expand in the future as the economy grows in tandem.[/quote] Our interest on debt alone will not be sustainable by 2025. Unemployment is not getting better, that has been debunked. There's simply less people looking for jobs. There is simply no recovering from the debt now. It has exponentially increased since 1992 and we're just now starting to feel the effects.