We are facing the perfect economic storm falling real estate values, inflation, unmanageable person debt, record oil prices, falling dollar (long trend) and government debt that can't be serviced.

As for the fake dollar rally, how about the fake economy. The US economy is a paper tiger backed by, well- paper, not actual wealth or even cash. I suspect that the only companies that have actual cash on hand are big oil, big agri and big drug companies. The stock market speculates more then evaluates. The speculation is based on consumer consumption, 70 percent of our economy. Now that oil is a few months away from $200 per barrel, kiss the consumer economy bye bye. And then we'll actually see how the short "cash burn" cycle is as it becomes obvious that most US corporations have not real cash on hand and won't sustain a downturn. This is going to get ugly!