I'm going to have to disagree with you on certain points here, Briney.
While I agree it's true that using the dollar is helpful for the US, I disagree that the dollar "is the new gold". First of all, the US could go bankrupt at any time if the inernational bankers called up the loans the federal govt owes them. This has been done on purpose and as such the feds have given away some "federal land and state parks" among those is the Grand Canyon! So our American land has been turned over to inernational bankers as collateral. Also, gold will be the only gold from now till the end of time. Third, the dollar, while experiencing better results than the pound, peso, yen, and all others; has been decreasing in value since the 1980s. This has allowed foreign investors, not to mention Japan and CHINA!, to procure some of our debt. This, in my humble opinion, is an act of treason. But I digress. The dollar is not even worth a dollar and it's competition with the euro is coming about. With the growing power of the EU, as well as US money following away to Mexico, the dollar is only worth, I believe right now, 86 cents for every dollar. Remember, last summer of '05, where it fell as sharp as 63 cents for every dollar. This was done in order to allow the EU to grab more countires when they were annexing, basically, other countries. When they were done for a time being, think of it as the end of a Risk(c) turn, the dollar went back up quickly. While this was done purposely by the federal reserve, which is neither federal nor have any reserves, gold has never decreased so sharply in value. If anything gold, even when it has dipped in value, has risen faster and farther than any investment in the entire history of the world. I believe the only thing that would compete with the value of gold would be, and I think I'm correct on this but do correct me if I'm wrong, is if someone were to find out hwo to make platinum which would be a vitale component in the making of hydrogen fuel cells. Even still, gold is the top thing to invest in if you were, let's say, to want to make money.
Also, I believe the move you describe here just shows you even more that Iran is being controlled by a leader who's an operative. This man, who if you look at the history of, has taken the place of a moderate, good, and elected leader who was thrown out of power. He has said all the wrong things, exterminate Israel, the Holocost didn't happen, etc. He has done all the wrong things, such as this. This will hurt his economy more than anything because the dollar will stay high even if he does this. If this man isn't an operative then he should go down in history as being the worst country leader of all time.
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