Right now, most countries around the world are in very fragile states in regards to their economic situations. When countries like Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain and the US begin to raise taxes and cut public servant wages during a time of job losses and uncertainty it tends to aggravates the economy, which ultimately affects the markets negatively. When all the major countries around the world decided to try and spend their way out of this recession, they pretty much solidified the future destruction of their currencies and/or economies. By creating money out of thin air it decreases the value of that countries currency. As a result, there are only 2 ways to fix that problem… both of which are painful.