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The
Imminent Global Business Disaster
The
Next Major Worldwide Economic Crash Affecting Consumers And
Businesses Alike
Anticipated
Crisis To Occur During The Period Between 2015 And 2016
There
is a high likelihood of a global business disaster on the near-term
horizon, i.e., within a one- to two-year time frame. This disaster is
most probably going to be felt the hardest in the United States,
where it will have the potential to decimate all but a few
government-entrenched and privileged businesses, and to sink all
dollar-denominated investment portfolios, regardless of traditional
investment diversification. This course to calamity is anticipated to
be caused by a confluence (a simultaneous occurrence) of several
major economic and banking trends and specific events. The collapse
is anticipated by The
Global Futurist
and other predictive writers and organizations to last for a period
of ten to twelve years once it has hit. I refer to the coming threat
as a “business” disaster, because business is the offspring of
economics that allows for supply and demand to function, and for the
existence of commerce and consumerism...
Factors
Involved In The Collapse:
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Further unification and strengthening of the Eurozone Central Banking
System – Europe's building of its own independent multinational
bank and banking system with a greater circulation and acceptance of
the Euro, and with a greater utilization of Euro-denominated
financial instruments and commodities purchases, both B2B (business
to business) and B2C (business to consumer) throughout the world;
=>
A precipitous decline in U.S. Domestic stock prices as predicted by
the trending of the economic wave known as “Dow Megaphone Wave”
which has accurately predicted the timing and amplitude of every
major stock market collapse and resurrection over the past twenty
years;
=>
The growing acceptance of cybercurrency (such as Bitcoin) as a medium
of exchange and a store of value in lieu of investment in and
utilization of bank-backed sovereign currencies;
=>
The increasing national indebtedness and decline in real savings in
the United States – an economy built on debt and artificially
propped up by government employment creation and expenditures –
especially those expenditures which are fiscally re-cycled back into
increasing the size of government, all to the unfortunate
displacement of the productive private sector;
=>
A declaration by the Bank For International Settlements (the “BIS,”
one of the least known and understood as well as secretive and
powerful international policy-making bodies in the world) that the
United States Dollar is no longer the preferred reserve currency to
be held by banks worldwide, leading the dollar into its steepest
decline in recorded history.
The
above trends and events could lead to the most severe business,
economic and consumer crisis since the debacle of 2008, when the
world's leading financial institutions demonstrated historically
unprecedented irresponsibility, corruption and a total lack of
contrition. The systemic cracks in the world's underlying economic
foundation have not been repaired, and the business and consumer
environments have not gained significant strength in their areas of
long-embedded habitual weakness such as an increased ratio of
borrowing to spending and an increased ratio of borrowing to saving.
Hyper-leverage leads to disastrous results for consumers and
businesses – this is, or should be, a matter of common sense.
Defense
Strategies Before The Event Of A Collapse:
=>
Basic survivalism – the stockpiling of non-perishable foods,
potable water, fuel and the like – it is not ridiculous to keep an
eye on what the “Doomsday Preppers” are doing and to follow their
example, but not to a ridiculous extreme. Don't have a false sense of
confidence because the government and mainstream media would have you
believe that things have gotten better – this latter notion is
utterly ridiculous. You cannot make a nation truly prosperous by
perpetuating bad fiscal hygiene. You cannot perpetually repay debt
with more borrowing and expect profit to result. Losses can only
truly be reversed by significant ongoing increases in productivity.
=>
Diversify your savings and investment holdings geographically and in
terms of currency denomination – don't concentrate your dollars in
any one industry, technology, country or currency; be an
Internationalist. Consider investing balances in cybercurrencies.
Cybercurrencies will only be bolstered by devaluation of
bank-supported sovereign currencies. Since cybercurrencies are a P2P
(“peer-to-peer”) variant on the theme of barter, i.e., where no
banks are involved and interest charged, they are becoming a serious
contender for the conduct of business and commerce, which is
currently infested and controlled by banks in virtually every aspect.
Incidentally, when I refer to cybercurrencies, I am using that term
synonymously with electronic currencies and virtual currencies, for
they all refer to the same concept;
=>
Borrow up to your maximum in U.S. Dollars in order to purchase
non-U.S. Dollar-denominated investments in cybercurrency, foreign
currencies and tangible (but necessary and functional) assets
currently at distressed prices, such as residential real estate in
densely-populated areas and actual, physical commodities that have
some practical use. Avoid obsessing over precious metals and
exchange-traded commodities which become non-necessities in a
survivalist worldscape; their values will reflect reality and not
speculation in the trough of a long, deep depression. In terms of
tangible commodities of true value, think in terms of such useful
physical items as power generators, meal rations, medical supplies,
solar panels, water purifiers, potassium iodide and the like. Items
of this sort can be sold or traded at a substantial premium in a
worst-case economic scenario. This is truly thinking “outside of
the box” and “inside of the shelter”;
=>
Insure your valuables to the greatest and most practical extent
possible for damage and theft. Similarly hedge your investments and
insure your portfolio, and be certain that you have both business
interruption insurance and personal loss of income insurance if you
are conventionally employed;
Don't
be a lender expecting to be paid back in U.S. Dollars. It would be
wiser to be a borrower while rates are artificially low, and to be
paid back in cybercurrency or tangibles of true and lasting value.
And be certain to have a disaster recovery strategy in place for your
business as well as for your personal life. Private companies which
deal in survivalism are making ever-increasing profits as a function
of the populace’s suspicious that the economic outlook in the
coming years may be less than rosy — and these businesses will be
reaping fortunes in the trying times imminently ahead. If you can
dedicate or re-purpose a portion or segment of your business to
survivalism, this might provide a wise hedge against an uncertain and
dangerous future.
Think
about it and consider acting upon it sooner rather than later.
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