"HM, I hope I am wrong because if I'm right the next 100 years or so are going to look very similar to the period from 1725 to 1825... multiple financial crisis, depressions, wars, revolutions, pandemics, famines etc... and we will all be affected." E-Wise

E, are you saying "horse trading" will replace "Greenbacks"? "Livery stables" will replace GM dealerships? Frozen "road apples" will replace pucks at NHL venues? "Horsing around" will upstage "corporate greed?" (The engine driving"capitalism!") Stirrups will once again decide "the balance of power?"

If what you say comes to pass, a word to the wise to the French, "quit eating your horses!"

Imagine the stench in Maple Leaf Gardens! (Of course the corporate name dropped and the ice plant down due to market restraints!) Its bad enough now, the smell I mean, but with a continual supply of "road apples" melting down the old "Hog-town" label would be an understatement!

E, anyting is possible, but my guess is "it'll pass" before the extremes you outline "come to pass!"

I'm taking my chances.

RUF