THOUGHT OF THE DAY: very interesting article...the petrodollar has always been hawkishly protected by the U.S. historically. With Venezuela's plan to abandon it, how suspect that we suddenly are paying so much attention to demonizing the Venezuela government, building a pre-PR war campaign as we usually do before we take military action or impose heavy trade sanctions. It's also no coincidence that all our deemed hostile country-adversaries are abandoning or have already a ... bandoned the petrodollar -- China, Russia, Iran, Syria, now Venezuela. The setting is ripe for global conflict. Clearly, the China-Russia tag-team duo yearns to be the new supreme global superpower. The EU is slipping; worse yet, the once U.S-EU pact (that offset the China-Russia duo) is weakening due to Trump's misguided nationalist retreat (can't stop globalism...period, too late). This orange monkey's economic politics is revisionist. How ironic that the once deemed backward countries economically -- China and Russia -- are at the forefront of the global economy; and the U.S. now back-peddles to nationalist economics. I am more than confident that the true motivation behind wanting to enter conflict with N. Korea has more to do with destabilizing China (massive refugee and destabilizing of the entire region for years) than ridding N. Korea of nukes. Really, why are we not concerned about Pakistan's nuclear stockpile? Geopolitically, Pakistan is not a threat. Open Your Eyes America! War has always and will always be driven by global economic competition and resources. The Petrodollar (who wants to move away from it) has always signaled who our enemies are. --EQ silver colored items to wear of the evening