It will be a tragic event when US Dollar finally cracks – an event that will affect citizens across the world. But it will be especially dreadful for long-spoiled and unaware Americans. Your financial future is at stake. Do not be complacent.

You have probably heard claims like these for years. So, why should you be especially alarmed right now? Stay tuned! I will show you exactly why the buck is now in implosion mode.

Global finances have operated on faith in Monopoly money since Tricky Dick shut the international window for exchanging dollars for gold in 1971. We have since held the privilege of being the primary banker in a vast fiat game. But this Monopoly game is heading for a re-start and the US will no longer dominate the international issuance of money this next go around. And 99% of Americans won’t even know what hit them.

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Today’s Notes reads more like a John le Carre novel than an investment newsletter. But bear with us. It tracks one of the most fascinating news stories you’ve never heard of.  The news reports are maddeningly sketchy. And the mainstream media is doing a damn good job of not reporting the story.

But it’s clear the arrests by Italian authorities of two “Japanese-looking” men allegedly attempting to smuggle $134.5 billion worth of US bearer bonds across the Swiss border is the biggest financial crime in history. And one with major implications for America’s economic security.

For those of you who don’t know, a report surfaced on Monday, June 8, on an obscure Vatican-sponsored news website, AsiaNews.it, that Italy’s financial police (Guardia Italiana di Finanza) had “seized US bonds worth US 134.5 billion from two Japanese nationals at Chiasso (40 km from Milan) on the border between Italy and Switzerland.”

According to the report, these

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Here at "A Dash" it seem like amateur hour in analyzing the stress tests and the various leaks. People who have little experience with government and policy making are rushing to judgment about the process. Let us consider a prominent example.  David Wiedner at the WSJ writes as follows: On the eve of the official announcement, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are leaking stress-test results like pipes in a 100-year-old house. Out of the tens of thousands of readers of his column, we are probably the only ones who clicked through to all of the sources and tried to determine what the journalists said.  None of them are citing a "high government official" or a "well-placed government source."  Quite the opposite, and no support for the allegation. We had a similar experience today on RealMoney, TheStreet.com's site ...

Don’t expect oil prices to remain at these low levels for long, says Byron King. Demand weakness for crude is temporary. And oil-producing nations cannot sustain their own economies unless oil prices are close to $100 a barrel. Byron says it could be time for investors to slowly build up a position in oil service stocks.

This from Whiskey & Gunpowder:

Along with the market decline, the price of oil has fallen. It’s down 50% within three months. Back when oil hit $147 per barrel in July, I said that the price “ought” to be in the range of $100-110, with the possibility of a drop into the $90s. That’s what the fundamentals told me back then.

Most of the decline in oil price from $147 down to about $100 was directly related to the strengthening of the dollar. So the oil price slide in July, August and

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