Good post harvest. You can argue with skol forever, and it WILL be forever, because some people get very threatened when the US is criticised, and so you will get the same old defence arguments trotted out ad nauseum. Skol has got it all worked out to his own satisfaction. The US is on the right track financially, and gold is a useless metal and investment. The Chinese are, at best, naive, and about to be shorn like sheep by the clever people on Wall Street. There's nothing wrong with the way the rapacious banks operate, according to skol, and a federal reserve controlled by a cartel of private banks allowed to "let rip" by inadequate regulation, is how it should be. Skol sees no looming problem, more of the same is OK. Perhaps skol could tell us if he saw the 2008 crash coming and did he prepare his assets for it. 23.