Tuesday , 19 March 2024

5 Red Flags That Economic Collapse Is Imminent (+62K Views)

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“These 5 red flags will give you anywhere from a few days to a few months ofeconomy-2h-10 warning that things are about to change drastically…and well before those around you grasp the full extent of what is going on. This is hopefully a scenario that never happens as this will truly be the end of the world as you knew it.”@A Financial Site For Sore Eyes & Inquisitive Minds

“The indicators below will give you anywhere from a few days to a few months of warning that things are about to change drastically. @Economic Developments

1) Interest rates on US Treasuries go up steeply, and/or suddenly

The definition of ‘defaulting’ on it’s debt means the U.S. Gov’t isn’t able to pay the interest on the almost $20 trillion it owes. Currently interest rates are low…but, as interest rates rise, the interest expense will get bigger – and this will be very difficult for a Gov’t that is already deficit spending way beyond its means. @Follow the munKNEE

You want to keep an eye on the current rates on Treasuries for two reasons:

  1. Increasing rates will require a debt laden Gov’t to borrow more and will accelerate inflation and the date of collapse. This is a 6-12 month red flag. As of today, rates are slowly rising although they are still very low.
  2. A sudden and sustained spike in the interest rates indicates that there are fewer buyers of US debt. Without the ability to borrow more money or rollover the existing debt the US Gov’t will have to shut down or do desperate things like stealing from retirement plans or citizens bank accounts. [If, and when, this happens] get your money out of the banks or markets immediately. This is a very severe red flag indicating only weeks before major financial crisis and economic collapse.

Here and here are sites for monitoring Treasury interest rates. Also read Rapid Rise In Interest Rates Will Collapse U.S. Financial System – Here’s Why

2) Price of oil goes above $120/barrel

 Essentially everything on this planet depends on oil; food, transportation, heating & cooling, and basically every consumer item you can think of. The world economy cannot sustain high prices of oil without collapsing. We saw that very clearly in 2008 when the price of oil hit a high of $146/barrel in June, and by September of that year we were in a full blown financial crisis…

If the price of light sweet crude oil [rises to, and] stays above $120/barrel, then you have only a few months before a major financial crisis unfolds. The financial crisis of 2008 was ‘solved’ by atrocious US Gov’t spending of more than a trillion dollars/year. That particular solution won’t be available to use in the next crisis. Does ‘the powers that be’ have another card up their sleeve for the next financial crisis? I don’t know, but I assume the answer is “no”.

Go here for prices on crude oil. Look on the left sidebar a bit lower on the page.

3) Food prices rise dramatically

There is a direct correlation between rioting and the cost of food. It is a very simple principle – when people can’t afford to eat, they revolt [as was the case] in 2010 when food prices soared and Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia in December of that….sparking a series of revolutions throughout the Arab world…[Such] revolutions are predictable as detailed in this article…

The level of hunger and desperation in the Untied States has increased in recent years indicated by the increasing numbers of people on food stamps and increasing strain on local food banks.  According to FeedingAmerica.org 1 in 6 Americans are dealing with hunger…. We are approaching conditions for civil unrest and revolt here in the Untied States…

The UN FAO Food Price Index has climbed recently to within 10% of the February 2011 high of 237 and should have you on alert right now. Were the index to cross into the 240s and then stay above that level then the probability is very high you only have weeks or possibly months before widespread violence will break out world-wide.

4) Category 5 hurricane hits Texas City/ Houston area.

Approximately 30% of all US oil refining is done in a small area called Texas City near Houston.  A category 5 hurricane… hitting these refineries would cripple diesel production and, without diesel, the vast just-in-time trucking system would come to a crawl.  Food, fuel, and medicine are the three most crucial items trucked around in this county and all of those deliveries would be dramatically reduced drastically limiting their supply. Food inventoried in the grocery stores, for example, would only last about 4 days while delivery of everything else we commonly depend on would also come to a crawl.  Prices would skyrocket…

Red Flag: if a category 5 hurricane hits the Houston area, you’ve only got days before rampant price increases and martial law breaks out.

5) EMP Disaster

EMP stands for electro-magnetic pulse and is a strong burst of energy that would have the net effect of destroying the electrical power grid. An EMP pulse would either be man made (i.e. terrorist induced) by exploding nuclear device(s) in the atmosphere above the U.S. or as the result of an intense solar flare from the sun. The net result would be the same –  the loss of human life as high as 90% within a six month period according to U.S. Gov’t studies…

Keep an AM radio with charged batteries in a ‘Faraday cage’ that protects the electronics from EMP pulse. AM radio signals can travel extremely far and checking transmission from AM radio stations at night is a way of determining the range of destruction. This protocol will give you awareness of the situation hours and days before those around you grasp the full extent of what is going on. This is hopefully a scenario that never happens as this would truly be the end of the world as we knew it.”

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    • The UN FAO Food Price Index has climbed recently to within 10% of the February 2011 high of 237 and should have you on alert right now. Were the index to cross into the 240s and then stay above that level then the probability is very high you only have weeks or possibly months before widespread violence will break out world-wide.

      I think this is 137 and 140 not 237 and 240…just fyi

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    Flare-up: How the Sun Could Put an End to Nuclear Power
    http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/ei
    BY GAR SMITH
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    Solar energy may soon eclipse nuclear power – only not in the way we hoped. According to NASA, the planet will soon face an outbreak of powerful solar flares capable of collapsing global power grids. Were this to happen, the world’s nuclear reactors could be left to run wild, overheat, melt, and explode.
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  9. An old Microwave oven makes for a perfect “Faraday Cage”. Put your radio in that and it will be safe. Another way is to construct a cage with a wooden frame and copper screens. Don’t forget to ground the cage.

    • You beat me to that one, Friend Airborne – have recommended such an approach to others for several years now. ANY old microwave oven will do – need not be functional as a food-cooker to still keep those precious semiconductors from being “fried”.

      The cheap-and-dirty at-hand alternative? Broiler Foil and a healthy length of bare copper wire. Wrapping the electronics in the foil reliably shields it (although an EMP will still “float” the entirety, the metallic outer wrap will take the brunt of the shock) – and binding the package to any metallic cold water or steam-heating pipe within reach with that length of bare copper wire will reliablyre-route and dissipate the entire charge harmlessly as can be, back to Mother Earth.

      It must be noted in passing, though, that although fear of EMP damage has been pumped into the (occasionally still) tech-savvy American Public Mindset for several years now, recent little-reported actual side-events in the Middle East suggest strongly that the threat is indeed somewhat less credible than is widely believed. One such example is the not-so-secret use of a tactical nuclear device against a certain military bunker just outside Damascus.

      This deplorable event was in fact independently recorded on a hand-held video camera (not a cellie, more like a Handycam) from not so very far away by one former Damascus resident who withdrew to a nearby hillside to record the aerial bombardment on his home city for historical purposes. (Um, wouldn’t YOU?) Then the telltale brighter-than-the-sun flash – the cries of “Allahu Ak-BAR!” from the assembled party (who all expected to die that instant, wouldn’t YOU?) – but, contrary to popular expectation, the cam and its content remained entirely intact for offloading and uploading into other friendly human hands later that chaotic week, all around the Web.

      FWIW: Freelance reporter+ex-NSA analyst Jim Stone of http://jimstonefreelance.com professionally authenticated the raw evidence from that event and quite courageously broke the “scoop” to the rest of the world. Someone might want to go visit his site and gain the Benefit of Genuine Education from the lifework of a man who had already out-Snowdened Snowden long before Snowden did what HE did. I say no more; just click and GO.

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