the depression begins?

[Jonas]

Despite the "encouraging" economic numbers coming out today (Stuart Varney's term, not mine), the US economy is like a slow-motion train wreck. The major problem is that the rest of the world's economic news is exactly the same. We're being fed bogus numbers by the governments and central bankers while the politicians and banksters squeeze that last half-drop of blood out of all of us. Unfortunately, an economic house of cards can't be propped up with false numbers forever, and when things crash, they'll crash fast and deep, and probably without warning - go to sleep at night with cash in the bank, wake up the next morning to find out it's worthless or been seized.

So what to do? Convert all the money we can into tangibles (storage food, silver coins, medical supplies, etc.). When hyper-inflation hits, we'll be in a whole lot better shape than those who are left with worthless banknotes and bogus stock certificates. Everyone should be able to buy an extra pound of rice or bag of dried beans every week. These will store almost forever, especially if repacked into clean glass jars which are washed and saved when emptied rather than thrown into the garbage can.

How much time do we have? Damifino! But anything we do, even just starting today, is more than most will have done when the system collapses.