Something is going to break in the financial system, "don't let it be you, that's how you have to see things," exclaims E.B. Tucker, bestselling author of Why Gold, Why Now? [The Fed] is going to raise interest rates until something cracks because, "that gives them some sort of leverage that they are looking for on the world stage," he says. The dollar is ripping higher, "and it's all a part of the plan for U.S. lawmakers," he continues. "It's very difficult to say what Russia is up to," as a large producer of oil and precious metals, Tucker concludes.