But still, the money printers are working, inflation will be even higher, debt increasing and the US needs to pay more and more interest on this, so the only option is to rise the debt ceiling and keep printing to pay and on and on, imo the financial system as a whole is broken, it has been going downhill since they stopped with the backing of gold, this can't go on forever.
I agree with you, the alternatives have problems too, I'm in the Euro zone, imo the northern euro country's should have a separate coin, there are just too much differences between north and south countries and economy's