We have been hearing about the Shemita -- a Judaic seven-year cycle that completes itself with a catastrophe. Examples: 9/11 was a Shemita year, as was 2008 when we had a financial fiasco. 2015 is another Shemita year, and the seventh of seven cycles, so we are being told to "get ready" (see this YouTube). Here is the PBS story of what happened in Argentina -- once the richest country in South America ("argent" means silver):