Yeah but what if you buy a bunch of gold for hundreds of dollars per ounce, drive up the price of gold and devalue the US dollar, then pay off the debt with the gold which is now worth thousands of US dollars per ounce.
Of course that doesn't work if you have to pay your debt in Euros.
4H Club always reminds me of the 'Fox In a Box' from Viz:
"What's that you've got there, Rude Kid?"
"I've got a fox in a box!"
"And what are you going to do with your fox in a box, Rude Kid?"
"I'm going to fuck it, and then I'm going to eat it!"
Go Dru Go!
Yeah, well, they are all plastic surgeons moving to the US to pump collagen into Pam's tits or botox into Celine. Gotta go where your customers go.
Comeon PP how many Canadian doctors or engineers move to the States - almost none. Canada's biggest export to the US is celebrities, like Pam Anderson, Neil Young, Celine Dion and John Candy.
0% unemployment drives up wages because it is so hard to find someone good. Driving up wages drives up inflation. Do you really want that? Imagine having to pay $20 or $30 an hour to that guy in Portland who pumps your gas.
I have had, or seen, 4 ropes get chopped by rockfall or by trundled rocks over the years. One on Athelstan, one on YBR, one on Arts Ass and one on Watchman's Ridge (except that one was Don's rope not mine).
Old WC Friends used to have nuts on the end of the axles. If you could reach the nut with a socket wrench, it made getting overcammed stuck Friends out pretty damn easy, you just disassembled it in the crack.