By James J. Puplava
"How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."
-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
"To summarize, each price-revolution developed through five stages: slow beginnings in a period of high prosperity; a period of surge and decline; a time of discovery and institutionalization; an era of growing imbalances and increasing instability; and finally a general crisis...Each successive price-revolution became less catastrophic in its demographic consequences, but more sweeping in its social impact."
-??????? David Hackett Fischer, The Great Wave
In five short weeks, America changed. We've gone