This is such an obvious question. Yet how many people on CNBC or MSNBC have ever answered it for you? You are left to assume that the US is such an incredibly efficient and hard working nation, that everyone trusts us to pay that debt off at some point in the future…. Right? Anyone? Bueller? (Ferris Beuhler’s Day Off reference for our non-US readers).

The game at the highest stakes table – the table where decisions are being made deciding the fate of billions – is about to lose a player. One way or another, the battle over the guilt or innocence of Dominique Strauss-Kahn will eliminate one of the major factions governing the Infinite-Growth Paradigm. TPTB are being culled...