As a matter of interest. What do any of you know that just keeps growing..unchecked, without getting unstable and collapsing? Why do rabid capitalists think that never ending economic growth is possible? Because they are short lived biological organisms who want power and money for themselves right now! That is the mental idea, trusting super rich to be honest and responsible!!

Welcome to socialism guys. Like it or not the West is about to grow up with any luck and I expect it will be painful.
12 trillion dollars of debt has been realised but not all secured and there is another 20 trillion to come! : ) It has only just started.
If the US etc just keep printing money it will slip into a hyper-inflationary economy and it is Zimbabwerama for all of us.

For what it is worth I bought gold.

Expect social unrest and very angry people when the real damage is realised.

The French might be derided by the US but they invented our individual freedom with the creation of meritocracy by the chopping off of a whole lot of rich and powerful heads...I say it needs to be done again to remind them of the dangers of treating everyman with such contempt.

No doubt I will be thought crazy but a whole lot of heads on spikes at the outskirts of the city will have a better effect than long drawn out court cases and light punishments for too few.

There will be a social cost created by these men and women that is outrageous and I for one would be happy to get the big blade out.