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Prepare For The Imminent Economic Collapse 2018
Will the US Economic Collapse Happen in 2018? The economic forecast for 2018 is more than bleak, and there is more than enough economic data out there to show there could be an economic collapse and stock market crash in 2018.
352 Comments on "Prepare For The Imminent Economic Collapse 2018"
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 4:46 pm
A youtube video? How professional! There are like a million videos on youtube claiming this all the time! Most are of course far right!
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 4:54 pm
Dear Reader,
Here are five peer reviewed scientific studies authored by top experts that prove beyond any reasonable doubt that global anarchy is a few years away!
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800914000615
http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/Peak%20Oil_Study%20EN.pdf
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1754/20122845
http://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/sites/default/files/docs/MSSI-ResearchPaper-4_Turner_2014.pdf
http://www.feasta.org/2012/06/17/trade-off-financial-system-supply-chain-cross-contagion-a-study-in-global-systemic-collapse/
Hope you are ready for this!
https://imgur.com/a/Rlx0a
JuanP on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 5:01 pm
MM, And here I was reading the title and thinking that you were going to like it. There is no pleasing you!
onlooker on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 5:04 pm
Notice how the links by MM attest to GLOBAL collapse. SO not just the US but worldwide
Oh and come on, you can do better on this subject than a youtube video!
onlooker on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 5:13 pm
MM, I am glad in your links you included the the environmental/overpopulation basis for collapse and true
experts and scholars like the Erlichs
Mad Kat on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 5:19 pm
“Prepare For The Imminent Economic Collapse 2018”
Not news, just fact. The road down is going to get bumpier as the days go by with some sharp falls before the cliff. Prepare.
Go Speed Racer on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 5:22 pm
We already collapsed.
Around 2007. That
never got fixed, we just got used to it.
For example, used to go to Saturday night
City Symphony Orchestra, enjoy a little
Mozart, “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” and some
white wine, cheese and delicacies after.
But now that the economy is trashed,
no more symphony orchestra anymore.
Basically still bad times, so
gotta make do with sofa fires,
often times on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9epTA33k6js
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 5:23 pm
Onlooker
Yup I try to keep my mind skeptical and my sources sharp. To be honest I am not really a doomer . I am just a science nerd who happened to read Jared Diamonds “collapse”..And learned about all our issues..
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 5:24 pm
Madkat
Global economic growth has peaked, says World Bank
https://www.ft.com/content/4b9e6190-f55e-11e7-88f7-5465a6ce1a00
A contraction in economic activity over an indefinite period of time represents a highly
unstable state that will cause the system to collapse.
Do you deny that Asia is apart of the global economic system? If not then they will collapse with the system…End of story!
Mad Kat on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 5:51 pm
Funny MM. Global TOTAL growth has peaked. But that means only that the West’s negative growth is subtracted from the real growth in the rest of the world. YUGE difference. The Western “growth” is fake numbers, massaged to look better ten it really is.
And, yes, Most growth numbers in the rest of the world are also massaged to some extent. But … if you observe what is actually happening in those growth countries you can see it. Not so in the US and most of the West. The West is undergoing a slow collapse, obvious in the headlines. Need I post a few dozen refs to prove my point? You will just ignore them anyway.
Mad Kat on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 6:43 pm
“One month after a deadly train derailment in Washington State killed three people, America’s crumbling infrastructure was on display again Monday when a DC Metro train derailed in a tunnel in downtown Washington DC.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-15/dc-metro-train-derails-60-onboard
“To cap off a long, strange day, my husband and I took the kids out last night to see Pitch Perfect 3… I wasn’t expecting a masterpiece, but I also wasn’t expecting to be blasted in the face with ninety minutes of blatant war propaganda from the United States Department of Defense.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-14/i-paid-see-movie-about-singing-i-got-ninety-minutes-pentagon-propaganda
The Police State Be=rainwashing is moving forward along with the collapse of infrastructure in the Us.
Boat on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 6:47 pm
Mal,
Yep those global growth numbers have been massaged for years including the 3.1% projection for 3018. The demise of oil demand hasn’t happened either. Short said it would happen by now and by the end of the year cobwebs on oil rigs would litter the world. Hehe. Doomers do have resolve. Just a bit short on facts. Kinda like mak saying people in the P’s really aren’t short. Lol.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 6:50 pm
Madkat
They have a new movie I just saw advertised about the war in Afganistan…And in the movie the general says “if we dont’ take this village the world trade center is just the beginning”…
LOL talk about bullshit. they can just point to the world trade center attack forever and say go kill these muslims or it will happen again. That is total scaremongering!
Mad Kat on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 6:52 pm
“While iron ore and copper have been the hot targets of overseas acquisitions by Chinese firms as they seek to feed an economy that up until 2015 was growing at double digits, the Chinese have also gone after gold, nickel, tin and coking coal. More recently the most desired metals are those that feed into a tectonic global shift from fossil fuels to the electrification of vehicles. This has meant a hunt for lithium, cobalt, graphite, copper and rare earths – metals that are used in electric vehicles, of which China has become the world leader.
The most interesting part of this trend is not that China is acquiring mines and mining company stakes abroad – that has been going on for at least a decade – but that the overt attempts to lock up the world’s mining and energy resources, some of which are critical to the future world economy, are happening under the nose of the United States…
… the United States appears to be doing little to gain access, through acquisitions, joint ventures or off-take agreements, to the materials of the future that are essential in the making of smart phones, computers, military equipment and renewable energy technologies. …
…we are quickly heading into a two-tier world of haves and have-nots. Where the haves are countries like China that seized the opportunity to acquire the world’s finite resources while they were still available, and the have-nots are forced to cow to the victors who will control and set the prices of the spoils.”
http://aheadoftheherd.com/Newsletter/2018/How-China-is-locking-up-critical-resources-in-the-US.htm
American independence? LMAO
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 6:53 pm
Boat
That 3.1 percent number isn’t averaged out through the population or adjusted for inflation. That is why you should look at GDP per capita instead. Which is around 1.3%
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG
*Note: 20% GDP Includes (FIRE) finance, insurance and real estate
Mad Kat on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 6:57 pm
No MM, it is pure brainwashing. Your masters pull your strings 24/7/365 and you don’t even realize it. They are preparing you for a war on American soil, not bullshit.
I have seen few movies made in Hollywood since 9/11/2001 that does NOT have a military insert or story line. I bet TV shows are similar, though I have not watched TV in decades. That is how brainwashing works. The subject is not even aware that it is happening. The American sheeple are asleep until…
deadly on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 7:09 pm
According to the doomers and preppers back in the early 80s, imminent economic doom was going to happen before yesterday.
It didn’t. All of the hype got everybody running around like chickens with their heads cut off.
The time to prepare was 35 years ago. There was no internet, it was in underground print.
You’re late for the party and there really is no hope.
Time to crash and burn.
Time to drink too.
Have a good evening.
GregT on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 8:00 pm
“According to the doomers and preppers back in the early 80s, imminent economic doom was going to happen before yesterday.”
I’ve met several of them around here. Good down to Earth people, and a great source of knowledge and experience.
Not one that I have spoken with has any regrets about moving away from the cities, and most are university educated.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 8:13 pm
Greg
Of course they have no regrets because they don’t want to swallow their egos and pride and admit they made a dumb move…You are screwed wherever you are when society collapses due to all the people who didn’t prepare and have no idea the collapse is coming! You are out numbered by about a billion to one! I would set aside a couple of bullets for you and your wife if I were you!
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 8:15 pm
Greg
Try to be a homesteader like you and your friends in a place without the rule of law and a prosperous society like Syria! You and your gang of far right flunkies wouldn’t last a week!
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 8:18 pm
Greg
Do you really think you can survive without fossil fuels? without electricity? Without grocery stores? Without retail stores to buy tools and equipment? Are you going to hunt or fish for your food almost every single day? Are you going to make fires by hand? I think not!
GregT on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 8:19 pm
” I would set aside a couple of bullets for you and your wife if I were you!”
Suicide is not our way of dealing with adversity. You stick to your plan, and we’ll stick with ours.
GregT on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 8:24 pm
“Do you really think you can survive without fossil fuels?”
Absolutely.
“without electricity?”
Covered.
“Without grocery stores?”
The grocery store here already sources locally produced food.
“Without retail stores to buy tools and equipment?”
I have enough to last for several generations.
“Are you going to hunt or fish for your food almost every single day?”
That’s just plain stupid.
“Are you going to make fires by hand? ”
Ditto, that’s just plain stupid.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 8:36 pm
Greg
How are those two questions at the end stupid? Pleas explain..And do you really think your store will be selling food when the economy collapses? And do you think the sources for their food wont be stolen by angry and starving people?
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 8:38 pm
Greg
You have quit the ego my friend. You think you can go from our modern 21st century living. To back to the days of Columbus and not even skip a beat!
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 8:42 pm
Greg
All you and your friends have done and our doing is preparing for a last stand…That is all that is going to happen. And keep in mind the keywords are “LAST STAND”…
Mad Kat on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 8:43 pm
Greg, MM is not a very well educated young man. A bit of research would tell him that even in the dark ages, peasants had to work only a few hours a day to survive. Ditto for the hunter gatherers in prehistory. Even the peasants only owed ~10% of their produce to the king. Not the 50+% owed to the US government today.
I expect that an hours work in the morning, on the farm, will about cover the needs. Slop the pigs, feed the chickens and rabbits, gatherer the eggs, harvest some fruits and veggies, weed a bit, etc. Much easier than driving to work in traffic, putting up with arrogant bosses for 8-9 hours, driving home in traffic, and then wondering if I have enough fiat money left to pay taxes and fees, buy food and gas, etc.
When the electric goes, I have a huge book library to entertain me and provide mental stimulation. Not to mention being able to teach the local kids some survival skills and share good times with the neighbors, one of whom is my age. I am anxious to share past history with him. Bored? Never! Suicide? Not in this life! That is the cowards way out.
Mad Kat on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 8:51 pm
“You have quit the ego my friend. You think you can go from our modern 21st century living. To back to the days of Columbus and not even skip a beat!”
I cannot speak for Greg, but it obvious that he has done it and I am in the process. If you take one step at a time down the ladder, it is not painful at all. You slowly adjust to the new lifestyle and find that it is actually less stressful and less demanding than the old one you gave up. 90% of what Americans believe are ‘necessities’ are not. They are addictions created by the capitalist profit machine thru advertising brainwashing 24/7/365 from birth. Tell a Filipino that he ‘needs’ the latest I-phone and he will either ask what it is or laugh at you. Food and shelter are necessities. Most everything else is a luxury.
Mad Kat on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 8:56 pm
“Just days after China’s (denied) threat to slow/stop buying US Treasuries, and just days before the launch of China’s petro-yuan futures contract, Germany’s central bank confirmed it would include China’s Renminbi in its reserves.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-15/petro-yuan-looms-bundesbank-adds-renminbi-currency-reserves
“The RMB is used increasingly as part of central banks’ foreign exchange reserves; for example, the European Central Bank included the RMB [as a reserve currency].”
The USD is slip slidin’ away…
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 9:00 pm
Madkat
You think a farm will be safe after society collapses? That will be the first place the zombie hoards swarm and steal everything. once again you are only focusing on yourself or in this case greg. Its not about you or greg. its about all the billions of people who didnt prepare that will make sure your plans and goals will never be met..The hubris of you and greg is hilarious!
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 9:03 pm
Madkat
Ask the Philippino people becasue they are to poor and dumb to develop their own country. Unlike the USA people! You brag that your people are total retards who live in absolute poverty like its something to be proud about! Ask a philippo what toliet paper is and they will just laugh, they just use their hands!
GregT on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 9:25 pm
“The hubris of you and greg is hilarious!”
You are the one who is hilarious MM, in a sad kind of way. All of the links that you provide do not come to the same conclusions as you have, you have no clue about what others have going for them, and you have already told everyone here that you plan on putting a bullet into your head.
Is your life really so pathetic, that you can’t find anything better to do with your time?
Mad Kat on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 9:36 pm
MM, do you ever think before you spew pure American exceptionalist bullshit? Come here and see for yourself what I have been telling you and Davy for a long time. the Ps is NOT like the US. The culture here is totally different and better in most ways. You are the retard, Mm.
Poverty is in the mind, not the real world. The people here are less stressed than the average American. They can have fun with friends that do not cost much if anything. I watched a group of boys kicking a partially inflated balloon around in a game of keep-away. The balloon cost maybe 10 cents, not the $20+ ball Americans would need to play the same game. They were laughing and enjoying the game as much as anyone could. THAT is the difference.
Your fear mongering is laughable, MM. Delusional at best. Sick at worst. But then, you already said you were a loser.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 9:39 pm
All of the links that you provide do not come to the same conclusions as you have,
Study: Limits to Growth was Right. Research Shows We’re Nearing Global Collapse (Turner, 2014)
http://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/sites/default/files/docs/MSSI-ResearchPaper-4_Turner_2014.pdf
Limits to growth models forecast a collapse by 2030..Within the decade I claim..
Page 58 “In the medium term, the global economic system and all market-oriented
economies would collapse.”
http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/Peak%20Oil_Study%20EN.pdf
And according to the IEA and Saudi’s the worlds two leading energy experts world oil shortages are coming by 2020.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/iea-says-global-oil-discoveries-at-record-low-in-2016-1493244000
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-aramco-oil/aramco-ceo-sees-oil-supply-shortage-as-investments-discoveries-drop-idUSKBN19V0KR
So I suggest you duck down, put your head between your legs, and kiss your ass goodbye!
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 9:41 pm
World Scientists “Warning to Humanity” Signed by 15,000 Scientists from 184 Countries Including the Majority of all Nobel Prize Winners
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171113111127.htm
Scientific American: Apocalypse Soon: Has Civilization Passed the Environmental Point of No Return?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/apocalypse-soon-has-civilization-passed-the-environmental-point-of-no-return/
NASA Study: Industrial Civilization is Headed for Irreversible Collapse (Motesharrei, 2014)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800914000615
The Royal Society: Study, Now for the First Time A Global Collapse Appears Likely (Ehrlich, 2013)
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1754/20122845
Study: Limits to Growth was Right. Research
Study: Financial System Supply-Chain Cross-Contagion: in Global Systemic Collapse (Korowicz, 2012)
http://www.feasta.org/2012/06/17/trade-off-financial-system-supply-chain-cross-contagion-a-study-in-global-systemic-collapse/
Oh and I forgot four other sources! You dumb uneducated imbreader!
Mad Kat on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 9:42 pm
BTW: MM, if they are so stupid, why is their GDP growing at 6%+ year after year? Why are they the doctors and nurses in many US hospitals? Why is their National Debt at less than 40$ of GDP, unlike the US’ over 104%?
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 9:46 pm
Madkat
Kids were kicking a balloon…You are grasping at straws! LOL So sad…
Page 58 “In the medium term, the global economic system and all market-oriented
economies would collapse.”
http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/Peak%20Oil_Study%20EN.pdf
That means you and your country Madkat its a market oriented economy. And that light you see at the end of the tunnel for Asia is actually an oncoming train!
GregT on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 9:48 pm
“So I suggest you duck down, put your head between your legs, and kiss your ass goodbye!”
You stick to your plan, and we’ll stick with ours.
Make sure to spend time at practising your aim, you only get one chance to get it right.
Mad Kat on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 9:51 pm
Greg, if he puts the barrel in his mouth he can hardly miss. I recommend a .22 hollow point in a revolver for the best splatter. Then his mom can clean up the mess and pay for his funeral.
GregT on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 9:52 pm
“In the medium term, the global economic system and all market-oriented economies would collapse.”
“Financial markets are the backbone of global economy and an integral component of modern societies. All other subsystems have developed hand in hand with the economic system. A disintegration can therefore not be analysed based on today’s system. A completely new system state would materialize.”
“Nevertheless, for illustration purposes here is an outline of some theoretically plausible consequences:”
“Loss of confidence in currencies. Belief in the value-preserving function of money would dwindle. This would initially result in hyperinflation and black markets, followed by a barter economy at the local level.“
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 9:54 pm
Madkat
who cares how much your gdp is when all of it goes to the elites on your country. And the slaves on the sweat shop floors will never see a middle class lifestyle. Because they are to brainwashed and conditioned by their authoritarian governments. that is why Asians write so little science papers despite having the highest IQ’s. They have no freedoms like in China, you cant even have facebook or twitter or youtube….And like in Japan they are conditioned to work to death. Your people might be the most intelligent but they are the least brave and are to cowardly to rise up and take what is theirs. Your people just dont have the will and are to totally controlled by authoritarians to change. And like you said they are happy with a balloon. Who needs a middle class just give all your wealth to the elites and be happy with less.
GregT on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 9:56 pm
“Greg, if he puts the barrel in his mouth he can hardly miss.”
I wouldn’t be too sure about that Mad Kat. By the sounds of things, the target is rather small.
Mad Kat on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 9:59 pm
MM, Market? as in Stock Market or Farmer’s Market? The Philippine Stock Market is four blocks away and the local farmer’s market is only two. I will never need the one but I frequent the other often. You guess which. lol
GregT on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 9:59 pm
“Who needs a middle class just give all your wealth to the elites and be happy with less.”
Coming to a neighbourhood near you soon. The process is already well underway.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 10:00 pm
Greg
You skipped over the first study buddy? what happened there? LOL
MASTERMIND on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 10:04 pm
Greg
Actually I have a 25 inch head. That is one of the reasons I am so genius. And a former state champion in chess. My head is so large due to my big brain that I have to get all my sports fitted hats special ordered. hat stores dont keep sizes as big as mine. And studies show humans with bigger brains are smarter. Even Darwin talked about it in his book.
Mad Kat on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 10:05 pm
Interesting comment MM. But then you would never know that here:
There is basic FREE medical service for ALL.
The state relocates the poor out of the city and gives, yes gives, them a free small house and basic electric in the provinces.
College is FREE.
Few pay income taxes.
Seniors get all kinds of freebies and discounts not to mention special service.
And they are talking about a social security type of plan for everyone, not just the employed.
As for entertainment, I remember when a deck of cards was all that was necessary for an evening with friends or family. They cost P50 here or about $1. You do NOT “need” expensive shit to have fun.
Mad Kat on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 10:07 pm
Hahahahaha! Nice Greg! You could be right. Maybe a sawed off with #12 buck would be better.
GregT on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 10:07 pm
“You skipped over the first study buddy?”
Already read it. Like I’ve said, bring it on. The longer that modern industrial society drags on, the worse the consequences will be.
GregT on Mon, 15th Jan 2018 10:10 pm
“Actually I have a 25 inch head. That is one of the reasons I am so genius.”
Never thought about that one before…. I just used the wife’s sewing measuring tape. 26 and 3/4s for me.