If you go on vacation, at the exact right time, you could miss it. All of it.
That is how fast the financial system will collapse.
Everyone is using credit cards, swiping for every purchase, when you left.
And when you get back, people are exchanging large bottles of Tide as barter.
The banks are all closed, the ATMs and the CCs don't work.
People who have it, are using cash. Everyone recognizes it, and accepts it for purchases, but few have worked out that it is worthless.
If you had just stayed on vacation a week longer, you might have come back and everyone is using bitcoin, the economy seems just fine.
Yes, it is that fast, and it has to be. People have to eat. People will figure out how to trade for food, or they will figure out how to steal food. And, since stealing food only works for a really short time, people will figure out how to trade for food.
It may be that grocery stores take IOUs, or the local govern-cement prints wooden nickels, or the coins shop takes gold and gives out grocery-store-tickets. Or a million other ways, from barter to bitcoin.
Local thugs will show up, but they will all die unless they can secure food. So, they can take over, they can raid houses, but they can only last as long as their food holds out. And desperate, hungry people, will try to take them out. Desperate people do desperate things, and may actually take out the thugs.
The thing is, people can only go without food for three days. There is only three days of food in the grocery store system. The food has to continue flowing, and the food distribution people have to work out a trade, and they got at most, 6 days.
And they will figure it out, because they have to.
(It might be that there are people who have already figured it out and have a plan. There are rumors, like "Trump Bucks", that may be more than just rumors)
This is what will be really weird… in hindsight
The banks will claim that they all closed for some reason. Like, they ran out of money. But, the Fed can print all the money the banks need. And, so, why would they run out of money? (something like that, i hope they will have a better story)
The story, whatever it is, will fall apart. The truth will come out, and everyone will be mad at the banksters. But, that takes a little while.
The banks will close, and then reopen with something stupid low, like $50 a day max withdrawl from ATMs (that only give out 20s)
Then, there will be something up with safe deposit boxes in banks. They will not be safe, but i do not know if it will just be money / precious metals that are at risk, or if you will never see your box's contents again. Another indicator, to the public, that banksters are evil.
Then there will be some "miracle". The banks will offer CBDCs on credit cards. Something like EBT, and may be created on the EBT platform. (or distributed upon). Here is your "money" says the banks, and everyone will be happy, while they have just given up all rights to their money.
OR! the old dollars are convertible (probably in banks, the local tellers are not really banksters) to "Trump Bucks". Which there might be a limited supply of paper "Bucks", but most will be electronic, and probably given out on cards like EBT…
It is going to be such a mess.
I have always written, have a month's supply of food. Go to CostingCo and buy canned chicken, canned tomato/pasta sauce, and buy some bulk spaghetti. Eat this as a meal once a week, and go to CostingCo and buy more, buy extra, till your supplies will last you a month.
(It doesn't have to be spaghetti, but anything like spaghetti, THAT YOU EAT! And naturally last a long time on the shelf.)
This time of turmoil will be short. (unless outside forces make it longer) So, if you have a months worth of food, you will not go hungry. Do not advertise your food, do not take in anyone who you have not already accounted for. You may want to not go out. There will be nothing but crazies out there.
You will accept whatever new money they give you. Don't worry, it will go away, as we build a new monetary system, but resisting the "new money" will just get you hurt, and won't stop it.
The way to a better future is to grow your own food, not argue or protest about what coupons the grocery store takes.
Live through this time of turmoil however you can. It will be short, and things will get better.
What will i write about in this blog the day after? Probably some recipes you can use canned chicken in. Because, all my thoughts are on preparation, i do not have any thoughts on what to do if IT happens and you have not prepared.
So, buy food. Even if i am completely wacko, the food you buy now will be cheaper than the food you can buy next month.
Have a stack of dollars. Paper, cash. These will be good, even after they say the "dollar" has crashed. It will be months before people stop accepting them. And everything will be on sale the day after the banks are closed. Including gold and silver.
Have gold and silver. Junk silver, especially dimes, is my favorite. If anything will be bartered, this stuff will be. Of course, most people wont recognize it, and will be skeptical. BUT! precious metals will be even more valuable after a currency reset.
Have cryptos. It won't really matter which ones, (accept for shit-coins, that may just disappear) Bitcoin is great, but the hardest to send. Litecoin, Doge, Ethereum, BitcoinCash. They will all be used in the next monetary system. (unless something better comes out. Something better will come out, so recognize it when it does. Of course, if it is just more code, bitcoin will become it.)
Please be prepared. There is so much sheep coming.
