How do marriages fall apart. The answer is very slowly, over years after neglect and not caring for things properly. Of course, when it all crashes down, it seems sudden, and in that moment is it sudden, everyone cries and runs around trying to save things that are no longer worth saving. They try to recapture worth by mouthing words that they've seen in movies and on television but that they don't understand and the thing collapses in a mess of confusion. This is how things happen in life. No music plays. No bell goes off. Just mess and confusion and craziness. It will be this way with the dollar.

Am I a fortune teller? No. I study history and natural processes. I try to look at things objectively to get an understanding of how things happen in the world, not of how sometimes I'd like them to happen in the world.

No one dies of lung cancer in a week. The causes mount for years and years. The lungs slowly weaken until the cancer sets in. Then everything seems to happen so quickly, the pain, the fear, the anger. "How could this happen so fast?" I am often asked. No matter what you hear in the newspaper... Lung cancer is a Killer. People die from it. Chemotherapy has never bee proven to be curative, only palliative. Regardless, 10 out of 10 people die of something. There is no cheating death.

No please do not forget this: Honest weights and measures, i.e. the gold standard and death inhabit the exact same realm. Natural law cannot be overcome. Not by any man. Bull