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All the meanwhile, the entities causing the inflation want to cover their tracks, so information given to the public is doctored, while official news bites are false, designed to keep the populace calm, to keep them from acting in their own best interest.

other lagging indicators

This requires work, so most people, being busy, go with the flow and in doing so no longer have that ’more accurate’ larger-view of the future they once held.

And this is why during the last 70 years we’ve gone from a condition where one worker could support his family, to a time when it took both Mom and Dad to support the family, and now takes Mom and Dad, credit cards, and  maybe a 2nd home mortgage to provide the same

savings–the product of your labor

It is at a point of dynamic, critical vulnerability;

fragility of our system,

If one very large, or several moderate to large (Volcanic Explosivity Index) volcanoes go off, we may experience very muted daylight for several seasons to a year and unable to grow enough food for even the prosperous nations.

which threats

Survivalism is basically the same

survival threats

star emitting a planetary sterilizing gamma ray burst

moderately likely

Is your job & income 100% secure?

prolonged period of time

How would your finances hold up in a currency crisis where the dollar rapidly lost much of its value?

any em

disaster

Plan to make it on your own

medications and medical supplies

• Have copies of emergency documents

remained a spectator

large number

US financial Ponzi dynamics

Debt will become a millstone around people’s necks and bankruptcy will no longer be possible at some point

purchasing power collapses

The essentials will see relative price support as a much larger percentage of a much smaller money supply chases them

inability to maintain infrastructure

short selling will be banned

Suburbia is a trap

Centralized services

Eventually the dollar will collapse

Deflation and depression are mutually reinforcing

Much capital will be revealed as having been converted to waste

Export markets

29.  Herding behavior is the foundation of markets

dangerous populist extremists

war in the labor markets

resource wars

demand collapse

Ordinary people are unlikely to be able to afford

Tainter

politics of the personal

economy of favors (i.e., endemic corruption)

give up your healthcare

magazine subscription

club membership

vacation plans

charitable donations

home phone service

lawn care service

financial support that you provide to friends and family

possessions and assets

have to move in with other families, friends, relatives

•  Food and ‘non-electric’–with the means both to prepare it and store it.

Portable water filtering devices and containers

A look at the civil unrest that can arise when a government just ‘proposes’ austerity measures

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