It's time to start thinking what collapse will look like
Ordinarily, I am an optimistic person. If what I post can seem gloomy, it's because there is compelling reason to believe that all hope has been exhausted. We may not be there quite yet, but we are perhaps closer than we think. Trump's idiocy is an accelerant, but what is coming our way is decades in the making. I was a barely middle-aged man when the Great Recession happened. About a year and a half prior to the stock market crash of 2008, the warning signs were already there. I was probably unaware of much of what had been going on, but I would see headlines about an increase in foreclosures in what had been hot real estate markets. The headlines suggested that this was not quite business as usual. On a personal note, when the first news of a massive wave of mortgage defaults on subprime loans hit, I learned that a job for which I was a finalist and for which I was likely to get an offer was suddenly shelved. Something about some unexpected budget cuts. I started spending a b...