I still have a knee-jerk response to anything that stinks of communism...if only because I have a vivid imagination, and can imagine starving to death in the Ukraine because my farm was collectivised, if only because I can imagine being a violin player that specialized in Bach during Mao's cultural revolution, I can remember how Puritans escaping religious intolerance in Europe came to America and promptly murdered Jews, burned Quakers, and shot Indians....there is an underlying model here that is not economic or political or religious or racial.  Its the Death Cult at war with the rest of us.  And they are capitalists and socialists, bankers and blacksmiths, politicians and "lone-wolf" cranks...the language we all use to try to figure out who the bad guys are keeps getting twisted off target.  Ah, well.  Lets holler about The Federal Reserve instead, so the future, de-centralized Bank of All Worlds sounds like a welcome replacement.   Let's think that Standard and Poor ratings are unbiased and non-political.  By the way, the CIA is ferociously interested in Bitcoin.  They like money, they like cryptology, I'm not even remotely surprised.  Seeing as how I have always heard that drugs are a good investment, as long as the war on drugs continues, and precious metals have always been a solid investment, except for the brief periods when the banks convince the masses to use paper, AND seeing as how I could apparently buy both silver and dope with bitcoins....I think I'll stay in the pool.  I have a dayjob after all.  If its good enough for the CIA, its....well, actually, it isn't, but I have always thought it wise to keep your enemies closer.