There is only one way to describe what is occurring to the US Dollar;  its future as the global reserve currency is in serious danger of  disappearing forever. Under the "leadership" of the US Federal Reserve,  and thanks also to the reckless and incredibly short-sighted spending  occuring at the Federal level, the Dollar has run out of friends.
It’s decline this morning has opened the door for gold to push past  $1500 and silver into what looks to me like the beginning of a "MELT UP"  mode. It has also send further speculative money flows into the  commodity sector with the result that the CCI, the Continuous Commodity  Index, is within a whisker of matching its all time high.
What many of us have feared could happen but were hoping to see  avoided, is becoming increasingly likely the further the Dollar descends  into this abyss. As a citizen of my nation who cares deeply for its  future for the sake of my own children, I am both disgusted and grieved  at what those who were charged with preserving the integrity of its  currency have done to our birthright.
A pox on these scurrilous men who have sold out our nation for  political expediency. Their only loyalty is to their own pocketbooks and  their crony pals who could give a rat’s ass what happens to the nation  as long as they can profit from it all. This plague of locusts is  stripping us bare.
- Dan Norcini of traderdan.net