When I see all of these guys from the Western World together meeting behind closed doors, I wonder if they aren't coming up with a plan to slowly hyper-inflate the World.
Think about this. If one nation suffers from hyper-inflation such as the Weimer Republic Germany in the 1920's, that destroys that country. But, when the civilized world does it, it destroys the people holding the paper. The people that bought the debt.
According to Paul O'Neil, the ex-Treasury Secretary, we have about $44Trillion dollars of promissory notes(for lack of better words). These notes are primary due to Social Security recipients. We're never going to be able to pay that off unless our money is worth a lot less. The rest of the world has the same problem we have. So, what do you do? You throw as much money at the situation as you can. If everybody does it, you can prevent the dollar from crashing against the other currencies of the World. In essence, they are all crashing, but since they are compared to each other a dollar will always be worth .60ish GPB. How do you pay off $44Trillion? You make it worth $10Trillion.
Oh yeah, the gold question. So, if all of the currencies dive, the only currencies that survive will be the real currencies gold and silver. Silver more than gold, imo.