Originally posted by: Aaron
You might take a look at usdebtclock.org and consider what is going to happen when the derivatives collapse and unfunded liabilities such as social security are no longer payable.
by that time the government will try all kinds of crazy stuff, like refunding and sending you all of your lifetime of income taxes back, while printing money to infinity to stave off the inflation....it'll work for a little while, until it doesn't.
US debt is considered by global financial markets, as well as foreign governments, to be the safest in the world. Which is why we can manage to pay such low interest rates on it. Which, in turn, is why we can carry a large debt.
Any event that disturbs that equilibrium would have to be apocalyptic, like a world war or a pandemic many times deadlier than covid. If the dollar collapses, everything else will have collapsed as well.
So feel free to load up your bomb shelter with porn, whiskey, and guns, but I wouldn't duck in there and slam the lid just yet.
Oh and by the way, the ultimate safety net to stave off fnancial collapse is our immense store of human capital. The primary product of America is intellectual property. We hold all the trump cards. So, relax.