[bodzoyfa]

A great question and one that I would like to add my .02 worth on.

As far as the long term goals of the TPTB, I think we are all in basic agreement as to what the ulterior motives are. However, as far as the short term (within the next 6 months to a year), I think we are going to see an economy that is dominated by extraordinarily high inflation. This would cause Americans to become poorer at a slower rate rather than us all waking up one moring and being broke because that would surely start a revolution. With rising food, gas, healthcare, costs the market will continue to be manipulated into stagnation.

This is the point where the big "crash" that we keep hearing about will happen. It wont be that we all lose our wealth in one swooping crash of the economy, but rather the market will become so ridiculously inflated that even though we have money in our possession we still dont have enough to tend to the basic needs of life. This way the finger pointing becomes very widespread and no one person or group of people will have to bear the burden of blame for the failure of America.

I often read that the summer of '09 will be particularly difficult because I think the scenario above may be reaching its zenith then. Americans will be hot, hungry, and extremely ****** off for the state of affairs that has befallen them.

I too identify with the Matrix movie as having so much symbolism it would take an entirely new thread to disect it all.

This is what I see happening on the economic front in the near future. Of course even more pressing may be the introduction of the Amero very soon as we just shipped 800 billion Ameros to China.

I know we will all stay tuned and I'm very interested to hear what everyone else thinks.

Cheers!