Everyone wants the dollar to fall, but what will replace it? The main reason it hasnt- is because of the confidence in it. Notice how the king of Saudi Arabia is eyeing the Chinese President Xi Ping- with suspicion, thats why they insist on gold as a back up, incase the yuan fails from lack of confidence. The United States has the ability to "reinvent itself", due to its amount of various cultures, religions, traits and people from all over the world that live here, where as other xenophobic countries do not.