The day the US Treasury prints a Trillion dollar coin, that will be the clearest signal yet to hoard gold, silver and ammunition, get rid of all paper assets, especially all Gov’t bonds, and make sure your loved ones are safe.
Because at that point, we will have become Zimbabwe.
That would be too late. The day that it is suggested that "the US Treasury prints a Trillion dollar coin" ... isn't quite too late (nudge nudge).
Unless the trillion dollar plantinum coin weighs 20,000 tonnes, then it might actually work.
The day the Chinese refuse said coins and the U.S. then uses this to pay obligations to citizens, we’re in trouble.
The collateral for our debts is the 30% of the country the U.S. government locked up in parks / reserves / wilderness areas.