Jello wrote:
] Mike the Usurper wrote:
] ] Yep, I oversimplified a bit and it's also a more than a little
] ] disjointed (it was late, what can I say), but I think you've]
] ] hit the nail with the Perfect Storm comment. This is one more
] ] contributing factor. Whichever one is the final straw will be
] ] the one that gets blamed, but it's never quite as simple as
] ] that.
] ]
] ] The one that scares me is the petro-euro. If that happens,
] ] that would move the whole system away from the dollar making]
] ] recovery much, much harder.
]
] Wasn't one of the primary reasons that we invaded Iraq to
] scare the region into keeping the petro-dollar? Or was that
] just a conspiracy theory?

Probably just a conspiracy theory, but it's as good a reason I've heard as any.

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