The Jakarta Post - Republican to Democrat: The poisoned chalice?: "As the opinion polls move steadily in favour of President George W. Bush and the likelihood of a John Kerry presidency recedes, Democrats in the United States can take solace in two facts. If their man is not in the White House for the next four years, then they will not end up carrying the blame for the almost inevitable U.S. defeat in Iraq -- and they will not have to preside over the biggest financial crisis to hit the United States since the Great Depression."
"The U.S. dollar is going the way that (the British pound) went as it lost its place as the world's reserve currency," said Jim Rogers, the Wall Street wizard who in 1973 co-founded the Quantum Fund, one of the first and most successful hedge funds, in a recent interview. "I suspect there will be exchange controls in the U.S. in the foreseeable future....Whoever is elected president is going to have serious problems in 2005-2006. We Americans are going to suffer."
Exchange controls? Does this qualify for the Ancient Order of the Shrill?
