As soon as the President McCain is sworn in, Helicopter Ben will be given a golden parachute (personally I think he deserves a golden shower...) into a plum private sector job where he can go back to be with his family more and where he will get his own back scratched after scratching those of half of Wall Street the past year or two.

Perhaps there will be a quick interim period with a chairman who lasts less than a year, like there was between Burns and Volcker; perhaps the Federal Reserve will actually be completely re-organized as it will have been the third US Central Bank to go under. Perhaps Paul Volcker himself will come back to do the same thing hed did almost thirty years ago, which is what the situation will demand.

And if he does, then the dollar will come back. But Americans, in particular those who are not wealthy, aren't going to like what things look like in this case.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant