34. The system collapses – once the fiat money becomes worthless – when the government is unable or unwilling to support its value through taxation. Until then, the government creditors are able to accumulate extreme amounts of wealth. Put another way, "by a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens
51. shows the magnitude of the deterioration of the dollar in the United States by projecting it 10 years into the future under the assumptions that the current account deficit does not improve (or worsen)