Former US Treasury Official - Terrifying US Collapse Ahead

Paul Craig Roberts: “Here’s the situation for the Fed:  All of the markets, and the solvency of the big banks, are totally dependent on the Fed buying the bonds.  If they don’t buy the bonds, then the interest rates are going to rise, the prices of all debt-related instruments are going to go down, the insolvency of the banks again reappears, the bond market collapses, and the stock market collapses....
“So they can’t stop QE because the whole system is rigged-dependent on that (QE).  The other part of the trap they are in is that the longer they carry on QE, the closer they get to the time when the rest of the world simply loses all confidence in the dollar because of the enormous rate at which new dollars are being created, and they bail out (of dollars).

And when there is a run on the dollar the Fed loses control and the whole system blows up.  So what the Fed is doing is preventing a short-term blowup with QE -- that is, with rigging bond prices, but the consequence is there is going to be a long-run blowup when there is a run on the dollar. 

So what the Fed is doing is simply keeping the system going as long as it can.  I don’t see how they can avoid a crash.  If they stop QE it’s going to crash.  If they don’t stop it, it’s going to crash later.  So the Fed is manipulating everything to keep the system intact.  And to repeat myself, they can do that, until there is a run on the dollar, and when there is a run on the dollar they lose control.  At that point, (the price of) gold and silver will explode.” Full audio interview at KWN