Call me a Tin Foil Conspiracy Theorist, but I think that a DEFLATIONARY COLLAPSE could be engineered to complete the FLEECING OF THE RUBES.
I smell manipulation in many markets including debt, equities, and precious metals.
For example, what if Obama and his gang of Wall Street cronies with help from the Fed held down precious metals prices until large numbers of conservatives put a significant part of their portfolios into metals. Then they could pull the plug on the too-big-to-fail banks as welll as the markets and allow the entire economy to go into free fall. In the end, the insiders who hoarded cash will go on a buying spree picking up real estate, stocks, companies, etc. while leaving a large percentage of our population bankrupt and more dependent than ever on government handouts.
Their motives always revolve around POWER and MONEY. Ideology is secondary. They have the power; why would they not use it?
I don't trust anyone anymore!