The trap is set and most Americans are gonna be screwed big time. Our money is being devalued very rapidly, we don’t produce that many exports, and our entire way of life is dependent on imported oil. The middle east wars are a last-gasp effort to try to remain in control of a world that no longer needs the US as much as we need them to need us. The rising Dow is an illusion — with shrinking dollars the real value has been going steadily down for years but because Duh-mericans don’t understand math they think they’re making money.