They can launch their murderous wars, enact a police state here at home, add another pack to the welfare house of cards--but they can't, as Burt Blumert puts it, repeal the law of gravity.

The value of the dollar, and the course of the business cycle, are out of their control. The Federal Reserve under Clinton and Bush--and Greenspan and Bernanke--has wrecked far too much damage.

The empire is coming down because the dollar is coming down, as Ron Paul and the Austrian economists have long warned.

The poor and the middle class will suffer, and keep suffering, until we have sound money. Depression or gold standard: that is the choice the structure of reality places before us. In this crisis, thank God for Ron Paul (URL via Michael Sinclair).