The dollar illusion can not last much longer. The U.S. is complete toast. By exponents, Boeing is our #1 exporter, and their recent 737 scandal & their groundings will be the final nail in the coffin of any trade agreement with China. Nobody wants our commercial airplanes any more - they kill plane-fulls of people! Many countries are now trading oil without the US Petrodollar - because it is rapidly being abandoned. The lowering of interest rates, followed by money printing will play out near the end of this year. It will not work - at least not for very long. After that, precious metal manipulation/suppression will come to an end. My timing is probably off - but it's not long now. As soon as the interest rates get cut, and they do QE-infinity, the dollar will be abandoned. The end of 2019, beginning of 2020. 2021 will definitely be a good year for goldbugs. Sure, it's possible the FED will continue to astound us with their ability to keep on bringing back the economy - but it's basically just the same as a brain-dead, comatose patient who's being kept alive on a breathing machine. It's well past time to pull the plug, and more and more people are beginning to realize that.