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Fiat money is always a game of musical chairs.If by "crisis" you mean "bankrupt beyond repair," I'm not sure what remedies there are at this point, for the "average American" or for the nation. A banking/financial collapse after 3-4 years of Operation Wuflu societal and financial ruin probably gets us a lot closer to a Venezuela type of fallout. Great Depression Redux at least.
They created a monster that has gotten too big and mean to be controlled ("to big too fail"), and now it is eating the royality and nobility rather than just the peasants.
Unless of course, our heroes in the Federal Reserve and the Treasury come up with some novel accounting tricks, just like the government came up with a novel coronavirus... and a vax that not only does not stop the spread of the "contagion," but actually harms those its supposed to protect.
If that's the case, you can bet the cure is going to be worse than the disease.
"We must kill the patient to save him."
That is what has been done. They have destroyed free markets, and have replaced it with fiat money that is worthless. The banksters and the government have conspired since 1913 to replace our Constitutional order with an oligarchic plutocracy.
My view is that "Average Americans" can only find shelter right now in hard assets. Precious metals, tools, food, fuel, weapons and ammo, booze, and other, tangible forms of wealth that can't be printed by holding a finger down on the zero key in some Federal Reserve office. Such shelter will be probably short lived in terms of wealth security once the takeover is complete. Buy stuff while our "money" still has buying power.
The banks have already been nationalized. And so has our money (which is not wealth).
Right now its "bail in" time for the suckers, and "bail out" time for the banksters, which means "average Americans" are going to bleed.
Digital money completely controlled by the governments of the world is the end game, and there are going to be no other options.
Now, about those trillions and trillions of dollars in retirement accounts....
Someone ALWAYS has to take a haircut.
Just because the music has been playing for 100 years doesn't mean it won't stop tomorrow.
Every financial instrument on earth has the "past performance is no guarantee...." disclaimer, yet people *still* insist that long term the market will always grow.
Yes, it will always grow, up until it ceases to exist.
I'm sure investors in the Russian stock market of 1900 assumed they could ride out a downturn too.