The possible coming collapse(s)

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, April 14, 2024 8:35 AM

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SIGNYM

Sunday, April 14, 2024 3:23 PM

Going back to Dmitry Orlov ... I used to think that social and cultural collapse came about as a result of economic stresses ... societies pushed to the limit reduced to individuals doing anything to survive ... but having watched "woke madness" and unfettered attacks on families, neighborhoods, and nations ... commonality being broken and re-arranged into antagonistic factions (black/ white, male/ female, young/ old etc) I see that cultural and social collapse is being engineered right here.

So if our standard of living - which protected us from each other's indifference if not downright antagonism - collapses completely, what keeps us from descending into Mad Max world?

It's not a necessary outcome. Some cultures, under extreme stress (i.e. having been forced to move en masse from ancestral homes to new environments where they couldn't survive in traditional ways) pulled together and survived. Others fell apart and died.



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THG

Monday, May 20, 2024 7:38 PM

Poor comrade signym. Her wish to see America fail; just keeps punching her in the face.

Add to the good news of the DOW setting records, manufacturing is taking off big time in this country. Good paying blue color jobs are going to be abundant to the point we won't have enough workers to fill them.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM: Saturday, December 22, 2018 7:00 AM

SIGNYM
I just wanted to share an insight and clarify my own thinking on the topic. Peter Schiff (the perennial gold bug) made a distinction between and financial collapse and a currency collapse. I think I heard it before, but it didn't stick.

So a lot of people tend to conflate economic collapse, financial collapse, and currency collapse; and while the three are interrelated they're not the same.

ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
What is an economic collapse? Well, I think in order to define that, you have to define "economy". At it's heart, an economy is the exchange of labor ... an exchange among people of goods produced (by labor) and services provided (by labor) so that people can take advantage of division of labor, economies of scale, and distribution of resources in order to have a better quality of life than can be provided by each individual attempting to produce their own necessities. Since I'm an advocate of economies being directed by democratic nation-states. I would judge economies nation-by-nation, not at some overall "international" level ... frankly, I don't care how well the Chinese are doing if Americans are suffering. So MY metric for judging the health of a (national) economy is by assessing the quality of life of its citizens AND its balance of trade.

If people are living a decent life and the balance of trade is near-neutral, I would judge that economy at doing a good job of providing for the needs and some wants of its citizens through exchange of labor within and outside of its own economy.

By that metric, the USA economy collapsed a long time ago. Our balance of trade went into the shitter around 1976.


It's not for lack of resources, and it's not for lack of people, it's due to the economic policies of the government, which reflect the economic desires of the elite.

FINANCIAL COLLAPSE
Like an economic collapse, in order to judge whether the financial structure is collapsing you must for decide what "finances" are. Well, "finances" are the flow of money. There seem to be a lot of ways to judge the health of finances and financialism ... mostly related to stock, bond, or real estate speculation, or to the amount of money in circulation ... but best way to judge the flow of money is called the "velocity of money", which measures how often each dollar in circulation changes hands. When the flow locks up is when a crisis occurs.



This chart is continued here, but you need to click on the link

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V

What the charts show is money velocity reached its peak in 1997 but has been dropping ever since. It took a precipitous drop in 2007, but has continued to drop like a stone ever since, reaching lows not seen... ever, in this chart. By THIS chart, the financial collapse hasn't even been solved yet.

Now, the solution to a financial collapse is to put more money into circulation. The Fed did a half-step in that direction: they bought a lot of banks' bad loans in order to refill their coffers with money and dropped interest rates to near-zero, but then they paid banks interest in

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