Quote from: JohnathanCity on January 02, 2014, 09:31:14 PM

Just in defense of the weak US dollar aspect, people really should be looking into the bond market. With QE3, the Federal Reserve has fleeced many people who don't understand how treasury bonds work. They're a reason other governments are only holdings short-term bonds these day. Since the power of the US dollar is so closely related to the bonds market and interest rates, it's a recipe for disaster considering the egregious amount of national debt looming on our shoulders.

It would be worth everyone's time to do a google search on some terms such as "EQ3", "Bonds Market Collapse", "Treasury Bond Interest Rates 2013", "US Debt Default Consequences", and "February 2014 Shutdown".
These are all very real things and give very sound reasons why to have money in Bitcoin right now.

+1

Somethings gotta give, and the bond market would be a good place to kick the chaos off. Something easy(-er) to comprehend, like a debt default, stock market crash or dollar exchange rate crash is not quite how the perpetrators want it to happen, if you want the average person confused that is. "Credit crunch" was a convenient way of characterising what happened in 2008, as it described the effect but not the cause. Expect some crazy media spin next crisis too.