THRIVE (ECONOMICALLY) AS THINGS FALL APART
The most likely scenario for the next decade starts with the
resumption of global economic depression (D2). Economies shrink.
Wealth evaporates as former "assets" become worthless. Commodities
fall (even energy) due to declines in economic activity. Currencies
gyrate, explode, and/or evaporate.
In this environment, sovereigns will begin to default as the industrial nation-state model runs out of gas. Developed nation-states will find themselves crushed between bailouts of their cronies and excess spending (i.e. social spending (EU), national security spending (US), or mercantilist over-investment (China). Developing nations will just implode.
Things will continue on this track until one of two things happen:
It's simple. What's needed are (note the plural here), virtual global economic systems built on a sound footing (i.e. better and more sensible rules than we currently have), prosperous participants, and a hard currency. Systems that people can flee to when currencies become scarce (deflation) or worthless (inflation) or nation-state political systems fail (corruption/crime) or flail (repression).
My advice to you: when you see a system that looks like the one outlined above, start to diversify your economic activity into it as soon as is practicable.
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/05/how-to-thrive-economically-as-things-fall-apart.html
In this environment, sovereigns will begin to default as the industrial nation-state model runs out of gas. Developed nation-states will find themselves crushed between bailouts of their cronies and excess spending (i.e. social spending (EU), national security spending (US), or mercantilist over-investment (China). Developing nations will just implode.
Things will continue on this track until one of two things happen:
- things really begin to fail (complete system breakdown) or
- new, better economic and social systems become viable as replacements to our broken one.
It's simple. What's needed are (note the plural here), virtual global economic systems built on a sound footing (i.e. better and more sensible rules than we currently have), prosperous participants, and a hard currency. Systems that people can flee to when currencies become scarce (deflation) or worthless (inflation) or nation-state political systems fail (corruption/crime) or flail (repression).
My advice to you: when you see a system that looks like the one outlined above, start to diversify your economic activity into it as soon as is practicable.
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/05/how-to-thrive-economically-as-things-fall-apart.html
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