My bad on the 3 year old article--I actually saw something yesterday that said Japan was most likly to fail of all the big nations and I still can't find it. I guess my point is that the World overcame hyper inflation in Latin America in the 70's and early 80's and no reason it can't recover from the current mess.
Japan, 22 years after it's peak and going nowhere still. I hope the USA is not 10 years behind and headed in the same direction. But, we don't buy the averages, we are buying global corporation taking advantage of the tailwinds.