The long term trend of the dollar depreciation and oil/gold inflation is inevitable. Just look at the $14,000B US current debt and we know in 2010, US need at least sell new debt to Fed, i.e. Fed print new money for $3000B to roll the short term debt and $3000B to fill the federal budget gap. US 2009 GDP is only $14,000B. How can they even pay the interest of $17,000B with the tax revenue from $14,000B, not mentioning financing the Medical care reform, which they know they have to do before the whole US becomes the next GM. The only way is to depreciate US dollar to wash down the debt, introduce double digit inflation to inflate the tax revenue. Bankers/CEO's will always win, foreign central banks and all saving acct owners will lose. Holding oil or gold is the only way to protect personal wealth, as Greenspan said when he was not the Fed chair, gold is the only way to protect the wealth against government deficit spending.