"A default in the US$ is too no ones benefit." MB

True enough, MB, unless one's bunker is lined with Gold and and stuffed full of Silver coin! (Also a few PM equities which in the event of a severly crippled $US will find the "dark side of the moon!")

Certainly, Embry has failed often enough that his word to some is like oozing pig poop! (He missed SAN completly, which is a story in itself!)

Without predjudice

RUF