the world holds its breath. what will the US do? let USD crash and take global economy down? or siphon a bit of wealth from everyone and keep things running for

the world holds its breath. what will the US do? let USD crash and take global economy down? or siphon a bit of wealth from everyone and keep things running for a little longer. obviously they'll chose option 2, as always, but it needs to appear as if this was done only as last resort, after careful consideration.