Sometimes I feel sorry for George Bush, he has so much responsibility. What with keeping the world safe for Democracy and feeding all the starving children, there just aren't enough hours in the day! In addition to his public responsibilities, he has one secret responsibility that he doesn't want to talk about: Protecting the status of the Petro-dollar as the world's reserve currency. Simply put, the dollar has for several decades been positioned as the only way for an industrialized country to pay OPEC for oil. No matter who you were, you had to buy American dollars and then send … Continue reading Take These Dollars, or Else!