Ron Paul can Still Win! - Scenario: The Day the Dollar Falls

Scenario: The Day the Dollar Falls

This is an interesting scenario. What would happen if, overnight, the dollar plummets. It is not backed by anything other than faith. What if this faith corrodes, and the world is no longer willing to finance American consumption?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuPgdZeAFjA

Most of the scenario is in Dutch language, with English sub-titles. Very intriguing indeed.

If more Americans watch it, and maybe some American TV News channel translates it into English and broadcasts it on a Sunday evening, maybe, just maybe, Ron Paul may still win..

Do we live on a bubble? Is it possible for the heavily indebted American economy to collapse and take all of us down in a free fall with it? Have the days of the dollar been counted? Is it really unimaginable that we will see the time of the Great Depression repeating itself?

VPRO Backlight and Dutch national newspaper NRC Handelsblad present this 'what if' scenario. What if the dollar collapses? Fiction meets facts in this 24 hour scenario. At 9AM a Singapore trader is ordered to sell a large amount of dollars, which sends off the enormous downfall of the dollar. This film shows the results for the world economy every following hour. It ends in Amsterdam, where the only currency accepted by a taxi driver is cigarettes...

History seems to have caught up with this 2005 film, though in slow-motion...

Includes interview with analyst Stephen Roach, Andy Xie, Maarten Schinkel, Cees Maas, Rob de Wijk and Kees Vendrik.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuPgdZeAFjA

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Ron Paul can Still Win! - Scenario: The Day the Dollar Falls

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