Did shareholders lose it? Perhaps it never existed...

Most of these bucks never really existed--now the market's bluff is being called. The Fed is using all the smoke and mirrors at its disposal to convince us that the dollars were real.

"Well, there is one fragmentary source which alludes to it as a 'Negative Twist of Nothingness.' " - Walter M. Miller, A Canticle for Liebowitz

Barter, anyone? I understand that applications for patents on BLM land under the Mining Act of 1872 are at an all-time high.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amero

while reading on the amero just now i came across this, which surprised me (if true):

While physical U.S. dollars are issued by the Department of the Treasury (in paper form by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in coin form by the U.S. Mint), most dollars in existence are not in physical form, and the value of the dollar is largely controlled by the actions of the Federal Reserve in lending and purchasing government securities.[citation needed]

Worthless without water.
I've been over some of it in San Bernardino county.

Bit dry.

Now the 500 acres in Monterey county, with wells, looks much better.

...will assure us that everything's just hunky-dory tomorrow.

Krugman on the B word