[PapaBear3625]

If the world situation does not stabilize, I can see #2 happening. The US is dependent on foreigners buying our T-Bills. If all of a sudden we need to roll over a T-Bill issue, and we don’t have enough buyers, then either the government stops spending so much (unlikely) or the fed just creates money and we have hyper-inflation like Wiemar Germany or Zimbabwe.

[b4its2late]

1. the imminent collapse of the U.S. economy to occur by September 2008, 2. the imminent collapse of US federal government finances by February 2009,

Pretty well spot on.