Is America going to "crash"

Will the declining dollar bring down America?

"Soon we will not talk about dollars because the dollar is falling in value and the empire of the dollar is crashing," Chavez said in comments translated into Farsi from Spanish.

"Naturally, by the crash of the dollar, America's empire will crash," Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said at a joint news conference with Ahmadinejad.

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