At what point would it NOT be tyranny? What in your estimattion is the threshold?

We don't agree on basic liberty issues and legal issues with the United Kingdom, France, or Germany, countries with whom we have close cultural ties let alone countries from whom we are culturally and historically much farther distant.

But right now there isn't enough consensus, I can't imagine such a thing for centuries if ever, and any attempt to impose such a thing before there is such a consensus would be tyranny.

Another point:

I continue to believe that we’re not ready for world government. Government requires consensus and there’s just not enough consensus on basics around the world to make world government practicable or just.

But ready or not we’re going to see greater coordination among central banks and governments than ever before.

I shouldn't want to misunderstand you, but this sounds like you'd LIKE to see 'world government', and see that as a GOOD thing.

For the record, I don't.

As a computer tech, I am reminded constantly that computers make mistakes more efficiently than man of his own power could ever accomplish. I view world government in much the same way; Given that our recent debacle is a failure of government, (And of that, most of it by people who wouldn't mind seeing world government enacted) and managed to screw things up worldwide, in spite of the lack of streamlined governmental efficiency that such government would suppsoedly bring, one wonders if we'd not be totally screwed today under a world government, instead of just MOSTLY screwed.

Or, said another way, the financial crisis is causing a slowing of economic activity and reduction in demand for commodities and this is no time to worry about inflation.

I take the point, but it would seem that elsewhere around the world inflation is happening anyway and at a pretty impressive rate, given the speed of increase of the value of the dollar as comapred to other currencies these last few weeks.... which is, we're told, much of the reason for the drop in the price of oil of late.