Americas current account deficit grows by 1 trillion dollars every 15 months. The investor Peter Schiff has a great illustration of the situation: six Asians and an American stranded on an island divide tasks; the American gets the job of eating.

See: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n3g5lUgkWk&feature=related| The Day the Dollar Falls]] a very amusing financial-SF episode of VPRO Tegenlicht.

--theunkarelse