Reply #7: Interesting question.

[Greyhound]

It's quite a conundrum that they're trying to con their way out of.

"All the money" is an enormous ocean of (mostly stolen) liquidity sitting in the black holes most commonly referred to as hedge funds but they have several other names as well. But that's not really correct either as these funds really have paper leveraging and betting on the actual money which is really nowhere.

So they/we now have a situation where the "winners" of this game have amassed fortunes so vast that there is not enough product on earth to ever cash in. IOW, these people/entities "own" more of the world than actually exists because currencies are not tied to any real value. So, the richest have paper assets that depend on a system for value that the excessive imbalance of their assets cannot support.

If the world, like Iceland and Greece, refuses to bear the cost (which they neither incurred nor enjoyed the profits from) the system will inevitably collapse, so it is the uber-wealthy that have the greatest interest in perpetuating the system. But so far they adamantly refuse to pay for it without a hefty return, so who knows?