As Rogers moved from India’s Economic Times, to Fox Business and over to his latest stop, CNBC, his message to investors is: If you think 2008 was bad, 2012 will be worse.

“We’re certainly going to have more crises coming out of Europe and America; the world is in trouble,” Rogers told CNBC. He said everyone has spent beyond their means, public and private, “and it’s all coming home to roost.”

Rogers’ more dire message recently speaks to the consensus of other thoughtful and unencumbered minds of economics and finance this week, especially today, as Bloomberg featured gold standard advocates Jim Grant and Jim Rickards during a lengthy joint discussion with the two men on Money Moves.

Rogers doesn’t refer to gold standards much as Grant and Rickards have lately, but he has discussed his fear of central bankers and their printing presses running wild in response to the crisis. Today, he believes the global financial system cannot weather a multiple of more debt added to the already highly leveraged central banks balance sheets prior to 2008.

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The U.S. Mint sold 3.65 million ounces of American Eagle silver coins last month and had the best January through May sales since 1986.

In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies.

including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.

The plans, confirmed to The Independent by both Gulf Arab and Chinese banking sources in Hong Kong, may help to explain the sudden rise in gold prices, but it also augurs an extraordinary transition from dollar markets within nine years.

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It was bound to happen, and it did.

Bank of America extended its foreclosure freeze to all 50 states as it continues internal “assessments” of its foreclosure practices. “Our ongoing assessment shows the basis for our past foreclosure decisions is accurate,” reads their statement.

Bank of America (NYSE: bac) is one of the highest volume loan liquidators. This means we’re going to see a huge slowdown in sales of bank owned properties in the coming months, which have been running at roughly one third of all home sales. It also says something about what happens next.

“It’s really only a matter of time before there is effectively a national foreclosure moratorium,” notes Guy Cecala of Inside Mortgage Finance. “We already have moved way beyond having foreclosure concerns in just certain circumstances in certain states. There are concerns/challenges being raised about all foreclosures.”

I put in the call to JP Morgan Chase (NYSE: jpm) to see if they will follow. “No comment at this point,” answered spokesman Thomas Kelly.

While some see today’s announcement as something of an admission:

“The national moratorium is what would be expected if they are truly concerned about the legality of their internal policy, procedures and processes. This is because in non-judicial states it is even easier to commit fraud, or act irresponsibly with respect to the quality of legal documents, than in the 23 judicial states in question because there is no judge involved,” says mortgage consultant Mark Hanson.

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