Yeah, that seems the most likely.... America's crash would bring the rest of the world down with it... So, though we may be fucked, everyone else would still be more fucked...
And don't forget China... China rocks. I bet it wouldn't be that muchn different then it is right now... :H
Maybe china and america will stand side by side as allies. China has an interesting dialectic of its own.
Its already kinda happening... China's going to overtake Japan as our number one trading partner by 2008.
Yeah... but the Chinese and American governments and their ways of life are different, and they are ideological and militaristic rivals. But After the great crashes, the world will undergo changes,and perhaps a complete alliance beetween the two giants will be possible.