Found this article over at Seeking Alpha discussing the looming collapse of the US monetary system. From the article:

“The Federal Reserve Dollar may be in for another big punch. Gulfnews banking editor Babu Das Augustine has raised the possibility that OPEC may switch from dollars to another currency, furthermore reducing the demand for the Dollar which gets shunned by more and more oil producing countries. Iran only accepts Euros or Yen and Venezuela dumped the greenback while countries in the gulf region move their funds away from it too.”

Basically, the US is up a certain river without a certain paddle. All the while the government refuses to investigate the $4 Trillion missing from the Pentagon. I think Rumsfeld took it. Most likely bought himself a plane to escape.