Pretty simple explanation about the nature of money and the decline just in front of us. 80 odd days to go and counting. The interesting thing about learning about this area is (by my measure) it is the only thing that can motivate someone to protect themselves from what is coming....Without understanding this area even a little bit, there is complacency, the complacency of "already knowing" the subject from the simple reason that one uses currency every day is not only simple minded, it is just plain ridiculous....That is not, however, understanding....But understanding is seeing the pattern by which this banking model has extended itself to almost all paper assets,,,,the stuff that the public invests in...Madoff was just a little example cited here....But How about life insurance? Exchange traded funds, ALL futures markets, all pension plans, well you get the idea....As soon as these entities get government approval and institutionalized there is an implied get-out-of-jail-card for whoever gets to exploit the people with them...Why and how? Easy. The government always gets its cut,,,,and is therefore an accomplice....because the cons are now systemic and integrated with society as a whole....And that whole has a very crumbly foundation, is failing,,,,and the people are being robbed - and the people's children are being robbed - because the government now coordinates the bail-outs from the very tax dollars that the public pays.

How can watching an empire dying and knowing that the wasteland of the aftermath is going to be so destructive be considered boring?

This could only be hastened with an Iran incident,,,or a similar calamity in Pakistan. And things are accelerating on all these fronts too....WE can watch and know that the United States to all intents and purposes died in 2007. The public down there only knows it as growing harder times.