By Author and Columnist: Ricardo C. Amaral

There are many reasons why the US economic and financial system is heading into the “Perfect Storm” resulting in the final collapse and meltdown of the US dollar.

The United States had a good run during the last 60 years, and enjoyed it's very special status as the main world reserve currency, but if you are smart enough to connect the dots then you will realize that the US dollar has reached the end of the line.

There's no safety nets left today in the United States, and when the stampede starts out of the US dollar it will create the biggest international monetary crisis the world has ever seen. The “Mother” of all international monetary crisis, and the final collapse and massive meltdown of the US dollar.

The world economy and financial system is a very complex system, it's like a dynamic jigsaw puzzle where the parts keep moving, and the jigsaw puzzle evolve into something else.

I will add on a regular basis more pieces to this constant evolving jigsaw puzzle.

Here are some very important principals that are under the foundations supporting the US economic, and financial system:

This crash course was prepared by Chris Martenson - February 23, 2011

CrashCourse: Chapter 2 - The Three E's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEHUbfP7OA&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 2 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 3 - Exponential Growth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXd66gP53fk&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 6 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 4 - The Power of Compounding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIwyMif5EOg&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 3 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 5 - Growth vs. Prosperity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1KsFDLZ3B4&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 3 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 6 - What is Money?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dq1bH1X6s&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 6 min

Crash Course: Chapter 7 - Money Creation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIxhsF6JLEA&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 4 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 8 - The Fed & Money Creation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3_Q1SiRN-A&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 7 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 9 - A Brief History of U.S. Money

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM7rITeNW6U&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 7 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 10 - Inflation (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xCy6sDxnhs&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 9 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 10 - Inflation (Part 2 of 2)

& Chapter 11 - How Much is a Trillion?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzEDkFDeJ_A&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 6 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 12 - Debt (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsTblStwiuM&feature=relmfu

Time: 6 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 12 - Debt (Part 2 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8ECro3HwPo&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 6 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 13 - A National Failure to Save (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKn3jROgznM&feature=relmfu

Time: 7 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 13 - A National Failure to Save (Part 2 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuJIEscbKGI&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 4 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 14 - Assets & Demographics (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y23zmnocxdM&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 7 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 14 - Assets & Demographics (Part 2 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EcXKzRNBVE&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 6 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 15 - Bubbles (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v2QynM0V2E&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 6 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 15 - Bubbles (Part 2 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0QStbuLRLc&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 8 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 16 - Fuzzy Numbers (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsNgJVD8KgY&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 7 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 16 - Fuzzy Numbers (Part 2 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01KIOjTe2CM&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 8 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 17a - Peak Oil (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8s7orGZbY&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 8 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 17a - Peak Oil (Part 2 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoFTNurAcws&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 10 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 17b - Energy Budgeting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeBtdwPpTQM&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 12 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 17c - Energy and the Economy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w6gf3tSGTg&NR=1

Time: 7 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 18 - Environment Data (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lRkB6gvBC0&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time 9 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 18 - Environment Data (Part 2 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BafOxXU13sk&NR=1

Time: 8 min.

Crash Course: Chapter 19 - Future Shock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDNvr82gqd0&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Time: 7 min.

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Here is the real reason the United States has attacked Libya to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi:

Gaddafi gold-for-oil, dollar-doom plans behind Libya 'mission'? - May 5, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuqZfaj34nc&feature=channel_video_title

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GADDAFI WANTED GOLD FOR HIS OIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugQlJHVvmI&feature=player_embedded

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The real truth about Libya and Gaddafi:

The Unfair Demonization of Gaddafi by the Western Power - June 25, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaR5lB5BKwQ&NR=1

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Exponential Function and Growth

The Most Important Video You'll Ever See (Part 1 of 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&feature=related

Time: 9 min.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand “The Exponential Function”.

The growth in any doubling time is greater than the total of all preceding growth!

The Most Important Video You'll Ever See (Part 2 of 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb3JI8F9LQQ

Time: 9 min.

The Most Important Video You'll Ever See (Part 3 of 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFyOw9IgtjY

Time: 9 min.

The Most Important Video You'll Ever See (Part 4 of 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQd-VGYX3-E

Time: 9 min.

The Most Important Video You'll Ever See (Part 5 of 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-X6EpvWWu8

Time: 9 min.

The Most Important Video You'll Ever See (Part 6 of 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3y7UlHdhAU

Time: 9 min.

The Most Important Video You'll Ever See (Part 7 of 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyseLQVpJEI

Time: 9 min.

The Most Important Video You'll Ever See (Part 8 of 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoiiVnQadwE

Time: 9 min.

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Here is the estimated world population from 10,000 BC to 2011 AD.

Total World Population in Selected Years:

Year…………..# of World Population

10,000 BC…………4 million people
5,000 BC…………..5 million
4,000 BC…………..7 million
3,000 BC…………14 million
2,000 BC…………27 million
1,000 BC…………50 million
500 BC………….100 million
200 BC………….150 million
1 AD…………….170 million
200 AD………….190 million
300 AD………….190 million
400 AD………….190 million
500 AD………….190 million
600 AD………….200 million
700 AD………….210 million
800 AD……….…220 million
900 AD…….……240 million
1,000 AD………..265 million
1,100 AD………..320 million
1,200 AD………..360 million
1,300 AD………..360 million
1,400 AD………..350 million
1,500 AD………..425 million
1,550 AD………..480 million
1,600 AD………..545 million
1,700 AD………..610 million
1,750 AD………..720 million
1,800 AD………..900 million
1,850 AD……...1,200 million or 1.2 billion
1,900 AD……...1,625 million or 1.6 billion
1,925 AD……...2,000 million or 2.0 billion
1,950 AD……...2,500 million or 2.5 billion
1,960 AD……...3,000 million or 3.0 billion
1,975 AD……...4,000 million or 4.0 billion
1,985 AD……...5,000 million or 5.0 billion
1,999 AD……...6,000 million or 6.0 billion
2,006 AD……...6,500 million or 6.5 billion
2,011 AD..........7,000 million or 7.0 billion (people by October 2011)

Note: If you do check various sources regarding the history of world population then you will find out that the various estimates varies a little from source to source for the figures before 1 AD, but at the end of the day their estimates are not too far apart.

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Population:

Brazil: 203,429,773 (July 2011 est.)

Russia: 138,739,892 (July 2011 est.)

India: 1,189,172,906 (July 2011 est.)

China: 1,336,718,015 (July 2011 est.)

Total “BRIC” countries: 2.9 billion people

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Innovation:

Here is an excellent lecture about innovation, that gives in detail the reasons why the United States is falling behind many countries in real innovation.

Americans think that they still are number 1 in the world regarding innovation, but the reality is another story.

Falling Behind: U.S. Competitiveness in a High-Tech World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV4rIWD7CLI

Time: 1 hr. 10 min.

Robert Atkinsons talk will focus on the United States losing its international economic competitiveness as it falls behind in advanced technologies and the forthcoming green tech revolution. A New College alumnus, he is the founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington, DC-based technology policy think tank.

Atkinson is the author of The Past and Future of America's Economy: Long Waves of Innovation that Drive Cycles of Growth and the State New Economy Index series. He is chair of the Congressionally-created National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission and was appointed by President Clinton to the Commission on Workers, Communities, and Economic Change in the New Economy. Before starting ITIF, Atkinson was Vice President of the Progressive Policy Institute and Director of PPIs Technology & New Economy Project.

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Robert Atkinson: Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage – October 2012

http://youtu.be/vWM08DzTuhY

Time: 1 hr. 23 min.

Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage

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Brazzil Magazine - September 06, 2006

“While the American Dream Is Outsourced Brazil Drives the World into the Future”

Written by Ricardo C. Amaral

http://www.brazzil.com/component/content/article/171-september-2006/9684.html

...Technology Changed Everything - Right now, we are in the middle of a historical turning point. In the last few years we had a revolution in technology, and today we can do things that were not viable only two years ago.… Article about John Maynard Keynes and Joseph A. Schumpeter.

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Porter Stansberry quoted me (Brazilian economist Ricardo C. Amaral) on this video. This was the first time that I heard of Porter Stansberry – but it turned out he is supposed to be a very well known figure to the investment community in Wall Street.

In February 2011, two friends of mine mentioned to me that they had seen the enclosed video, and that Bill Gross, Jim Rogers and I were quoted on this video regarding the US dollar. Since December 2010 over 22,000,000 people (22 million people) have seen this video so far on various locations on the web, and I am quoted around the minute 38 to 41 into the video presentation as follows:

As Brazilian economist and strategist Ricardo C. Amaral wrote recently:

“The US dollar served its purpose since the end of WW II, and became the major foreign exchange reserve currency...[but] the days of the US dollar playing that special role...has reached the end of the line, since today that system is very sick, and it is dying a slow death...

Mr. Amaral added that we will soon see: “the major collapse of the US dollar creating the biggest international monetary crisis the world has ever seen...”

Here is one location where you can watch the video:

Porter Stansberry Research - The End of America – December 14, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI-BIVWlc7A&NR=1&feature=fvwp

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December 14, 2010

Alex Jones & Porter Stansberry - The Economic Implosion of America is Here! Part 1 of 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTF5_TRn78c

Alex Jones & Porter Stansberry - The Economic Implosion of America is Here! Part 2 of 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq7nRqYAOqc&NR=1

Alex Jones & Porter Stansberry - The Economic Implosion of America is Here! Part 3 of 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BioK9LDppg&feature=related

Alex Jones & Porter Stansberry - The Economic Implosion of America is Here! Part 4 of 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZxmxpQdJ5Y&feature=related

Alex Jones & Porter Stansberry - The Economic Implosion of America is Here! Part 5 of 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TbJWBOvGt8&feature=related

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January 4, 2011

2011 Death of the Dollar - Porter Stansberry on The Alex Jones Show (Part 1 0f 4)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7PZOjXegZA&feature=related

2011 Death of the Dollar - Porter Stansberry on The Alex Jones Show (Part 2 0f 4)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmJjMnqinck

2011 Death of the Dollar - Porter Stansberry on The Alex Jones Show (Part 3 0f 4)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0mxAOUvPDQ&feature=related

2011 Death of the Dollar - Porter Stansberry on The Alex Jones Show (Part 4 0f 4)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rvEDqT9ee0

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February 23, 2011

The Alex Jones Show: Porter Stansberry, Lindsey Williams, James Corbett

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NYIPWENfic

On February 23, 2011 Alex Jones interviewed various guests on his show, and he interviewed Porter Stansberry around the minute 50 to 1 hr and 34 minutes into this video presentation, and they show my name on the screen (Ricardo C. Amaral) at the point 1 hr and 23 minutes into the video discussion.

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Alex Jones says on this video that 10 million people saw the video “End of America” on Current TV.

Censored TV Ad Banned from Airwaves - March 25, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYc8_eUOoEw&feature=ytn%3Amptnews

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Alex Jones: His syndicated news/talk show The Alex Jones Show, based in Austin, Texas, airs via the Genesis Communication Network over 60 AM, FM, and shortwave radio stations across the United States and on the Internet.

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On July 6, 2012 a friend of mine called me to tell me that he had just received a investment newsletter from James Dale Davidson, and he noticed that James Dale Davidson had quoted me on this newsletter regarding the US dollar.

Then I checked the web and I found this video and a copy of the newsletter as follows:

James Dale Davidson on minute 35 min. of this video he mentioned Jim Rogers, Bill Gross, and Brazilian economist and strategist Ricardo C. Amaral regarding the US dollar.

James Dale Davidson -- Fall of Capitalism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckx_Zosrhug

James Dale Davidson, the author of "Blood in the Streets" predicted on this video the coming fall of capitalism and US dollar

James Dale Davidson is an American investment writer, co-writer of the newsletter Strategic Investment, and co-author with Lord William Rees-Mogg of “The Sovereign Individual” (1999), “The Great Reckoning” (1991), and “Blood in the Streets” (1987). He also wrote “The Plague of the Black Debt – How to survive the Coming Depression” (1993). He is also the founder and former head of the National Taxpayers Union.

James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg edit "Strategic Investment, " one of the world's more widely circulated private investment letters. Davidson is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur, with investments in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and New Zealand, as well as high-tech projects in North America.

The legendary London Times editor, Lord William Rees-Mogg attended Charterhouse and Balliol College, Oxford and was President of the Oxford Union in 1951. He became a writer for The Financial Times in 1952, and then moved to The Sunday Times in 1960. He was first Deputy Editor and then editor of The Times (from 1967 to 1981). He was vice chairman of the BBC and also a member of the BBC's Board of Governors, and chairman of the Arts Council, with James Dale Davidson, he authored such popular, free-market oriented books as “The Sovereign Individual”, “The Great Reckoning”, and “Blood in the Streets”. He is a director of the Private Bank of London. He is Chairman of The Zurich Club and also of the London publishing firm Pickering & Chatto Publishers.

Here is a copy of James Dale Davidson latest investment newsletter, and I quote from that newsletter as follows:

http://www.planorperish.com/?p=8423

James Dale Davidson's Bold Predictions

Author : David Schectman

Published: May 16th, 2012

In today's daily, I feature a report by James Dale Davidson and I take his warnings very seriously, and so should you!

...A recent report in The New York Times has announced the birth of an entirely new currency in the U.S. - the BerkShare.

Also, Jim Rogers (one of the world's shrewdest investors) has denounced the dollar too, saying if something isn't done soon to resurrect it, it will "lead to a huge decline in the standard of living of U.S. citizens like nothing we've seen in nearly a century."

And Bill Gross, the world's biggest bond investor, has advised all his clients that if they had just one investment idea, it should be an investment in non-dollar, non-euro currency.

As Brazilian economist and strategist Ricardo C. Amaral recently said: "The U.S. dollar served its purpose since the end of WWII and became the major foreign exchange reserve currency...(but) the days of the U.S. dollar playing that special role...has reached the end of the line...today that system is very sick."

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By the way, I read all the books published by authors James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg - when their books were first published.

I enjoyed reading all of their books, but specially one: "“The Sovereign Individual”.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Sovereign-Individual-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720#reader_0684832720

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The Day the Dollar Died

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N8gJSMoOJc

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Fall of the Republic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU&feature=related

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The Crumbling of America

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBSPcIGGcIc

The sad reality is that the United States is collapsing just like the Soviet Union – the collapse is already underway, and it is reaching an advanced stage.

The special status of the US dollar being the main global reserve currency it has reached the end of the line – the international monetary system is in deep trouble, and everything it seems to be getting out of control.

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The Economic Collapse – Part 1 of 2 – June 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga5c6SPBl-I&feature=player_embedded

The Economic Collapse – Part 2 of 2 – June 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an7Ed9UTApU&feature=relmfu

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2012 – The next Great Depression

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_alFCeNk8Y&NR=1

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The New World Order

Invisible Empire Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqgjaAC-b54&NR=1

Time: 6 min.

Invisible Empire Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xjm5Bcy24&NR=1

Time: 8 min.

Invisible Empire Part 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF0AUGtV2Uc&feature=related

Time: 5 min.

Invisible Empire Part 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1hp11pu64c&feature=related

Time: 10 min.

Invisible Empire Part 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIgP-nkaNQM&NR=1

Time: 7 min.

Invisible Empire Part 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMxljs2twJg

Time: 7 min.

Invisible Empire Part 10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYlmfQDToaI&feature=related

Time: 10 min.

Invisible Empire Part 12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE8uiWmgPXE&NR=1

Time: 10 min.

Invisible Empire Part 14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX3hrVneTew&NR=1

Time: 5 min.

Invisible Empire Part 15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDOu5lDKbC8&NR=1

Time: 5 min.

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Here is a list of some of my threads with information that I posted on the Elite Trader Economics Forum since May 2005 on various subjects as follows:

My screen name on that forum is: SouthAmerica

Central Banks and the US Dollar

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=81958

The final collapse of the US dollar it is just around the corner

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=216802

The US dollar and the biggest default in history

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=121313

Over 75 years ago Wall Street Crashed; but today the New Crash is already underway

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=117003

It’s 2008. The U.S. Has Dragged the World into a Depression

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=124509

U.S. Economy – Budget Deficits – GDP and Defense Spending