The truth is that if foreign countries didn’t have the need to trade with us the currency would collapse.

Thanks to the US Subprime Fallout and resulting economic decline, we're starting to see global markets collapse.

Jon Holdman you are a hoot :) I almost collapsed in my chair laughing.

Nathan -- one can speculate about hyperinflation and other potentially adverse consequences of the govt printing money, such as a potential collapse of the dollar.The 10 yr treasury rate is 1.95%.

This market has effectively collapsed over the previous 12 to 18 months, as investors have fled the market.

Thanks to everyone who has responded.Hey Arthur Garcia, I'm in Murrieta (Inland Empire), and the housing market has totally collapsed.

That upstairs porch is about to collapse.

People forget how rapidly the investment banking giants collapsed.

Did did a bunch of fix and flips, land contracts, rehabbed and kept a number of small (4-6plexes) multiunit residential, some single family rentals, couple commercial buildings, things went south in about 07, split with my partner to try and survive, worked day and night for another year to regroup and survive, the final collapse in 08, worst year of my life in every regard.

Today, our housing market is finally healing from the collapse of 2007.