[LeGrande]

We are, at any moment, two meals or one CBS news broadcast from anarchy.

It sure feels that way sometimes : ( And some of your scenarios would play out that way.

But and this is a big but : ) The most likely scenario won't play out that way. We are watching the collapse play out right now. California is broke. The Federal government would be broke right now if they couldn't print money. This is an excruciatingly slow process, until the final collapse.

But our society isn't going to collapse, it will be transformed. How? I have no clue, except that it will be broken up regionally (most likely based on energy grids). The only thing I am positive of is that there will not be an armed rebellion. There will be no one to rebel against.

People with assets will be the ones to benefit.

[Lurker]

The Federal government would be broke right now if they couldn't print money. This is an excruciatingly slow process, until the final collapse.

"There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved."

- Ludwig von Mises

[The Comedian]

The most likely scenario won't play out that way

Dude, the "most likely" isn't even what worries me. I've got Farfal's book for that :-)

What is disturbing is that we are staring at a *flock* of "Black Swan" events, any one of which might have been experienced by perhaps a dozen people now living in America.

In the face of some of these events, a zombie apocalypse would be a calming, safe, nostalgic trip down the path of "normal".

BTW, as an act of civil disobedience, I have moved all funds and business activities save for a tiny fragment, offshore.

Screw the Coup.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.