I’m a 38-year-old expat originally from New Orleans and currently living on the north coast of Sicily with my fiancee of 5 years and our 11-month-old daughter. My degree is in Economics (Austrian School via Loyola, New Orleans) but I also focused on Philosophy, Classics, and History. I was on ODA 2044 (18e/18c) in 20th Special Forces Group from 1991-1997 and I am a veteran of Gulf War I when I served with the Mechanized Infantry in 2/5 Cav. I am currently employed as a consultant to a family trust here in Sicily; prior to that I served as “Crisis Manager” for Intercosmos Media Group, Inc. We live-blogged Hurricane Katrina from ground zero as described by Wired Magazine (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/posts.html?pg=2) and my blog was voted Best of the Web in 2005 (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/009559.html).

If my last name is familiar it’s because there must be 200 Barnetts in the libertarian movement – my father is Professor of Economics and Chase Distinguished Professor of International Business William Barnett II and is one of the greatest living macro-economists and an anarcho-capitalist. My brother and I are both anarcho-capitalists.

It’s my contention that America is doomed. Between Obama’s Keynesian stimulus plan and Bernanke’s Keynesian monetary policy, you can be assured of one thing: oblivion. This, in addition to the already more than $2 Trillion expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet and the massive “stimulus” already “injected”, is going to give the economy a one-two combination knockout blow which, given the epic size of the bubble economy, is going to be unparalleled in all of history.

Be assured that America is not the only country going down. Iceland already collapsed, economy and government both. The UK banking system was within three hours of total collapse and its demise has been temporarily forestalled, but remains imminent and inevitable. The US military has warned that [Mexico is in danger of a “sudden collapse”](http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_