When will the U.S. economy collapse?

[Bronson1111]

I know it is hard to say, but I would like to get a few of your opinions. I am interested in what my fellow Ron Paul supporters think.

 

[FrankRep]

When the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is ready to be the Global Federal Reserve.

 

[stuntman stoll]

My gut feeling is within a few months after the 2012 election. Things will get ugly in Europe this winter. They are past the point of kicking the can down road. Their market uncertainty will prop up the US dollar, yet conditions on "main-street" will probably not improve. The fed will print more money to prop up the economy and make Obama look better, and then the hangover will set in after the election in the form of raising prices and interest rates. This is roughly how it happened in Mexico (they inflated pre-elections to save the politicians asses) in the mid 90's. The difference is they had us to bail them out. No one will bail us out.

 

[pcosmar]

No telling for sure. several possible events could trigger it.

I had been expecting after the price of gold goes over $2000. but that is just an uneducated hunch.

I really can't see what is keeping it from crashing now.(Black magic maybe)

 

[ItsTime]

Just because we have not felt the aftermath of the collapse does not mean it hasnt already happened.

 

[frag4yourlife]

December 2011 - January 2012

 

[Travlyr]

When? It is collapsing all around us.

Some people say, 1984, others say December 21st, 2012. I say it ends when it ends. Paper is worth the paper it is written on, and electrons are worth the invisible electrons that don't really exist in reality. Game, Set, Match.

 

[sevin]

The collapse will happen because of a currency crisis. Unfortunately, Austrian Economics can't predict when a currency collapse will happen, only that it will happen eventually. But I don't think it could possibly make it more than 10 more years. In fact, no fiat currency has lasted more than 50 years and we're at year 40 right now.

 

[Tod]

I've noticed that when I click on Google news, I almost always have to actually do a search to see headlines about the Dow Jones. I'm thinking Google is keeping it off the Top Stories page intentionally...

 

[FreedomProsperityPeace]

It could happen at any time. We could already be in a double dip recession right now. I don't have much hope of this Congress and Administration fixing our fiscal situation soon. I just hope they can keep this failing machine running long enough to get Dr. Paul in there to change things, and Europe doesn't blow up in the meantime and spread "contagion" over here. The Dow has fallen nearly 2000 points over the last couple of months because of the Greece situation. I don't see how the EU can keep them propped up forever.

 

[extrmmxer]

We are 3 years into the collapse. It started in 2008. They don't happen overnight. Things continue to worsen each year, housing, food prices, unemployment, protests, etc. Keep your eyes and ears on the truth not the MSM.

 

[wgadget]

Ron Paul said that the dollar will collapse before next summer.

 

[Becker]

it was supposed to in 2007.

another failed prediction by hyperinflation alarmists and gold opportunists.

 

[Zippyjuan]

The "collapse" has been predicted practically since the dollar was created.

 

[BenIsForRon]

june 25th at 11:52 am. Not sure what year though.

 

[Philhelm]

it was supposed to in 2007.

another failed prediction by hyperinflation alarmists and gold opportunists.

Our entire economy is a house of cards. Collapse is inevitible.

 

[NewRightLibertarian]

Our entire economy is a house of cards. Collapse is inevitible.

The normalcy bias will have yokels denying the reality until it happens. I think they're trying to slowly ruin the economy so they can continue fooling people through propaganda that everything is OK.

 

[libertybrewcity]

They'll prop this baby up with that easyQE years to come. I can't see the money really flooding into the economy anytime soon. And look at all the banks. A lot of them are still failing. I feel like the majors are still having a hard time.

 

[BattleFlag1776]

There will be no collapse. I fully expect the US banking cartel to let Europe fall in an attempt to save its own skin which will set the US recovery in motion. Here’s how I see it happening:

When Europe goes south, and by that I mean Germany can’t afford grain due to their failing EU commitments, the US will set up a “no-fly zone” over the entire European continent. That will be followed by a complete naval blockade and the razing of a few select coastal cities along the Mediterranean just to show we’re serious. Naturally, all of this will be done in an effort to avert a “humanitarian crisis” via a “policy of containment.”

With Europe choked off, the US will then extend a “helping hand” via flooding it with US agricultural products, autos and other “US” goods from every sector we can muster. For our benefit, exports from Europe will be held to a bare minimum in order to create massive trade deficits.

World opposition? Think again. We will have the support of China given our current relationship with them. Likewise for the OPEC nations as we will make sure those deficits benefit them and they will, in turn, place a choke chain on any dissent coming from the Mideast. Russia will naturally be allowed to make a move on a few of the former Combloc countries without reprisal, so they won’t be an issue either.

In short, we will “trade” our way out of our current problem and this scenario will be kept in place until our current financial woes are eliminated.

How’s that for a conspiracy theory?

 

[Becker]

Our entire economy is a house of cards. Collapse is inevitible.

without a when, and how fast, this prediction is useless.