I'm not a financial genius, a prophet or anything like that, I'm just a person, average or not, who thinks he can see the writing on the wall. What's the writing say?
There is going to be some very tough times ahead. What kind of tough times? Things are going to get tougher economically. The world is going to wake up to the fact that the dollars we spend with it are only worthless pieces of paper or just worthless digits in digital system and it'll be to bad for us when they refuse to accept them as payment for the myriad of things we need from them. Every dollar that the Fed prints dilutes the value of the dollars that are already out there. The longer someone holds onto that piece of paper means that those dollars they hold are losing value. All of those trillions of dollars in stimulus money(currency) have no value because there isn't anything real behind it. That stimulus money has only diluted the value of the currency you earn by about fifty percent and the problem is the rest of the world hasn't caught onto that fact yet but, be prepared for it when it does. The work to produce something those dollars hasn't even been done yet and the Federal Reserve system is busy cranking out more worthless currency. You know this already don't you? Is it really the end of the world? No, just the end of another age and the beginning of a new one. What does all of this mean?
It means that when the rest of the world won't accept our dollars for the things they export to us, like food and clothing, we'll have to find a way to produce it ourselves or go naked and hungry. The land will always be there so at least you'll have a place to stand on or lay down on while you're dying naked and hungry waiting for the government to solve the problems. Can that really happen here? Yes it can because it's happened before and in many other places.
Will the new age be any better than the previous one? That depends on the people who survive to the new one. People have to become better educated in all manners of things from: business and economics, nutrition and health, spiritual matters, the right ways to behave toward each other and so on. It's probably the, "right way to behave toward each other" issue that is the most important.
Gandhi said something to the effect that if it comes down to an eye for an eye that the world will go blind. The real point is that we need to learn to treat each other better. We can have a difference of opinion as long as it doesn't deteriorate into violence because then it's a matter of who's the strongest or trickiest. I once knew a real tiny guy by the name of Louie who believed in equalizing a situation: he'd hit you over the head with a tire iron, or just shoot you if you turned your back on him. A gun or a tire iron; which ever was the handiest. So, there are plenty of Louie's out there and you'd better be prepared for them because they'll take everything you have away from you when it gets tough out there.
How can the next age become better than this one? Learn that a business has to make more money than it spends in order to stay in business and that this principal holds true for families and governments. That you can't just print more money when you think you need it. That, generally, it takes more than one person to provide for your future if you can't provide for your own. You can't just eat anything you want to and remain healthy. That the food in your stomach comes from the earth and not a factory. That you have to take an active part in teaching good behavior practices onto your children and that you can't leave that kind of thing up to a school or a church. That as long as long as you're not sure about somebody that you can't trust them especially if they've demonstrated improper behavior in the past. There is so much to know and you can't trust anybody else to know it for you; you'll be sorry if you do because few people are that trustworthy.
Our problems stem from our ignorance so it's time to become educated about every aspect of life if your going to make the next age a better one than this one. The sad fact of the matter is that we're rather lazy in some departments. We're too busy to spend time teaching morals to our children so it's easier to let them learn them on their own or to let a school or church teach them. But, it's also hard for us to know whether something is really true or not especially when we'll reserve our opinion until we've had a chance to hear it from some person we perceive as an authority figure to tell us what opinion to have. People have become so indoctrinated by those authority figures until they can't see the truth when it's stares them in the face. People will even claim that something is true because they've been told it's true even when they read something else because they'll read it like it's been told to them and not like it was written. So what's this got to do with the end of the world?
Well, the world's not going to end but, like I said before: a new age is upon us. We'll have to work to make it a better age if we want it to be better. For now we have to function in the present age but, you'd better begin to get ready for the transition because it's very difficult to give birth, so I've been told, and the new age is awaiting it's birth.
