Why haven't we been warned about this?

We haven't been warned of this for the same reason we weren't warned of all the other theories regarding global collapse over the last several....centuries. Basic science.

Theory of relativity. An object at rest will stay at rest till an outside force acts on it. An object in motion will stay in motion until an outside force acts on it. Now, lets apply that to the world theatre.

This theory just uses new "climactic events" in place of the old, but what its saying is that the world is going to go to hell based on these 'events'. No it wont. It would take way to much effort on the parts of way to many people for them to care enough for things to change.

No one really wants change anymore. The last major chage in the world was World War II. Russia giving up communism and going democratic? Gee, China stepped into that spot, didn't they. Now the US and China are playing the same game with other countries that the US and the USSR did. Just another cold war. Just more status quo. No one's going anywhere. Too many people fear change for change to actually occur on a drastic or global scale. It has to be slow, insideous, and sneak up on people, or it's resisted so completely that it will never happen.

I'm really not worried. And if I'm wrong, then its all about surviving the chaos, and our debate doesn't matter. But I'm not stockpiling guns and canned foods either... :)

I am the first person to get in line behind a 'blame it on Bush' chant but your argument sounds pretty weak to me.

First of all, the idea that the Foreign currency exchange will see any major impact by such a shift is absurd. It is the supply of Dollars from international trade that makes the impact.

Secondly the claim that the Bushies are overprinting money is simply in error. If fact, the inflation rate has been held quite steady since the early eighties.

The accusation that the Treasury dept. is lying about currency quantities is stupid. The market sets the price of money so it wouldn't really matter, and more pointedly, any neo-con or liberal economist would agree that a stable candid money policy is the backbone of business so the Bushies would have nothing to gain by manipulating this.

On a side note, you may want to acknowledge that even if Iran's alleged currency market policy adjustments had some influence, it wouldn't be Iran "doing" anything, it would just be a market phenomenon.

But hey, if you are convinced by this moronic claim you should convert all your liquid assets to Euros and enjoy your anticipated price spike.

I'll hang on to my portfolio for now.

The break up of the Soviat Union should be lesson that a country can be brought down economicaly. So I would guess we have intelligence about this and maybe they just don't want to alarm us. It could cause a run on the banks, and panic

Yea .. ask Bush & his neocon Mafiooooooos

Maybe you should ask the president dude.