It’s going down, down, down and the international finance community doesn’t like that, but there doesn’t seem to be any currency that would make a good replacement right now. That’s the assessment of Alvaro Vargas Llosa, writing for the Independent Institute here. What Americans should do, he suggests, is to buy gold but even more silver because central banks aren’t able to manipulate its price like they can, in the short term at least, manipulate gold.