Americans should have known our own inflation was coming when gas stations changed their signs to digital; our currency has become very unstable. Food will always be propped up by government subsidies, but when car loans can go out 7 years something is wrong. Few people commit to mortgages or children anymore; we’ve become Western Europe (though thankfully import many more braceros than Muslims)...
Invest yourself in education of new skills and abilities, especially where it takes time, not money or indebtedness.
Study the old traditional ways and life-sustaining skills : (ie.: The Amish, early Americana immigrants, the way of the native Americans, etc)
Differentiate between wants and needs.
Realize that electronic and digital monies are only inconvenienced electrons which can be added or subtracted, based on whim, hacking, coercion, or even politics.