by theluckycountry » Thu 31 Jul 2025, 17:03:05
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'I')s this a good indicator of the true state of the economy? I’d say yes
https://x.com/stealthqe4/status/1950913 ... aq1VBSCqtgVegas collapsing, yeah I read that the other day. But don't think it's as bad across the rest of the World, this is mostly a US collapse. A collapse of the 400 year old western christian Empire that began with Spain and will end with America. 400 years of unrivaled control in trade and finance inherited by each successive version. 400 years btw is the average length of Empire throughout history.
Here in Australia, in Singapore, in Norway and a dozen other westernized nations things are still going ok. Cracks in the plaster, but no collapse imminent. This is all a movie for me, munching popcorn in Constantinople as Western Rome is overrun by Goths. Gold and Silver will make the difference for those that hold it. All else is tied to the Debt, even cryptos now. The Markets will collapse utterly this time too, they have to, to wipe out all the debts. It will be hunger games for anyone who relied on the system, just like in 1929 onward. Millions kicked out of their jobs, kicked out of their homes. I imagine the homeless camps will fill every green park, the governments will be powerless to do anything.
It's already well underway isn't it. The news focuses on drug addicts but many of the homeless are just normal people that have lost their stake in the American Dream. They are in every city too, even little cities. Okies on the move. The price of oil has been range-bound for a year or more, hanging around $75 bbl. As each month passes less and less people can afford to pay for it's products. PeakOil indeed.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Dust Bowl and the "Okie" migration of the 1930s brought in over a million migrants, many headed to the farm labor jobs in the Central Valley. A study in the 1990s indicated that about 3.75 million Californians were descendants of this population. By 1950, four million individuals, or one quarter of all persons born in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, or Missouri, lived outside the region, primarily in the West.
Nowhere to run to this time though.