The Fallacy Of The Dollar Crash  I was just listening to an
infomercial by a gentleman named Porter Stansberry, owner of an
investment corporation, who makes claims that he “predicted” the
bankruptcy of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, General Motors, Bear
Stearn’s, and other major corporations, and that his clients who
listened to his predictions made a nice return on their
investments because of it. His infomercial, which is promoted on
various popular alternative sites, speaks of the dollar as being
the current world’s reserve currency and that because of such
humongous debt, the United States dollar will inevitably crash,
loosing this singular distinction.  Here is that website (which
I do not promote):  Mr. Stansberry offers a solution to this so-
called dollar crash.  What is that solution?   It is the same
“solution” he previously suggested for the bankruptcy of the
aforementioned corporations, having told his “clients” to short
bet their investments in these corporations so as to make a
profit from the inevita