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Message:: [QUOTE="Juan Blanco, post: 1593927, member: 41665"]Oh - this time will be different? The experience of misery for Americans is/will be DIFFERENT than the hunger/suffering of Russians, Bosnians, Cubans, Vietnamese, Hungarians, Czechs, Jews (of various nationalities fleeing Nazis and puppet regimes) that I've met... it is/will be DIFFERENT for Americans today because... because... we're special, right? No, obviously. And American Exceptionalism is garbage-thinking, pure nuttiness, hysteronic blather. (--I agree:the archaic  "intellectually retarded" is not politically correct usage--)Fact: human civilization has never ended with any prior currency collapse - and it won't next time. YES global currencies have come & gone before, mikem2000 - the Greenback isn't the first & won't be the last, have you thought to look back 200 years or so? Your so-called (imaginary) SHTF scenario is NOT the End of my world, either. So sorry to disappoint you. Good grief - you people must worry about the Yellowstone Caldera exploding or giant asteroids hitting Topeka, a rather more likely events. True the Dollar's collapse won't be fun, but hey, I consider it a teaching moment for Paper-Bugs... they really didn't deserve any of that 'notional stuff' (paper value) in this shamelessly material world anyway. Schadenfreude? Nah, just a reality check, that's all.[/QUOTE]