In this updated second edition of the highly acclaimed international best seller The Dollar Crisis Causes Consequences Cures Richard Duncan describes the flaws in the international monetary system that have destabilized the global economy & that may soon culminate in a deflation-induced worldwide economic slump The Dollar Crisis is divided into five parts Part One describes how the US trade deficits which now exceed US1 million a minute have destabilized the global economy by creating a worldwide credit bubble Part Two explains why these giant deficits cannot persist & why a US recession & a collapse in the value of the Dollar are unavoidable Part Three analyzes the extraordinarily harmful impact that the US recession & the collapse of the Dollar will have on the rest of the world Part Four offers original recommendations that if implemented would help mitigate the damage of the coming worldwide downturn & put in place the foundations for balanced & sustainable economic growth in the decades ahead Part Five which has been newly added to the second edition describes the extraordinary evolution of this crisis since the first edition was completed in September 2002 It also considers how the Dollar Crisis is likely to unfold over the years immediately ahead the likely policy response to the crisis & why that response cannot succeed The Dollar Standard is inherently flawed & increasingly unstable Its collapse will be the most important economic event of the 21st Century