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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;passantgardant, post: 1140651, member: 30033&quot;]Everyone who says don&#039;t buy into the doom and gloom cites one or two close calls which were luckily avoided.&nbsp; Why are those examples NOT to prepare?&nbsp; Aren&#039;t those actually examples to prepare?&nbsp; We came close to major calamity and barely scraped by, so let&#039;s not bother preparing next time?&nbsp; That&#039;s absurd.&nbsp; We only got out of hyperinflation in the 80s because the U.S. cooked up petrodollar hegemony while simultaneously flooding the market with gold.&nbsp; Don&#039;t expect another rabbit out of the hat like that one!&nbsp; And we only avoided Y2k because companies and governments spent billions preparing.&nbsp; I was a part of that -- one of the programmers fixing the Y2k bug in dozens of legacy programs.&nbsp; We did it, we fixed the problems, so the world didn&#039;t end.&nbsp; But in either the stagflation of the 70s or the Y2k scare, it could have gone the other way.&nbsp; Don&#039;t fool yourself into thinking we&#039;re now immune from entropy.&nbsp; All fiat currencies have hyperinflated.&nbsp; It&#039;s the law.&nbsp; It&#039;s just a part of human nature that we&#039;ll never fix.&nbsp; If you give government the ability to print money, eventually they&#039;ll print it out of existence.&nbsp; We&#039;re well on our way and within a stone&#039;s throw of finishing the job.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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