http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...e-as-fears-grow-over-Americas-AAA-rating.html If the dollar continues to fall, and if we lose a AAA debt rating the US Economy will be in a malaise for a very long time, as in a decade or more, and when the US emerges from it, we will see our standard of living a shadow of what it once was. Geithner "promising" not to let the debt get out of hand is laughable in the face of the projected budget deficits for the next 5 years. Add in the dollar losing it's "safe haven" status on top of the Quantitive Easing, and inflation will, not might, will run at 5% or 6% or more.