The Hindenburg Omen..... (look it up) has been triggering more in recent months..... just another sign, not the absolute proof.
Another factor is BRICS. (Brazil, Russia, India, China, Spain) These countries have formed a pac, as well as rumors that Russia, China, and some middle east countries want to start trading oil in "other than the US currency world reserve". That's perhaps the most frightening of the indicators that trouble is coming. Consider that more than a few countries would like to see the US dollar removed as the world's trading currency standard. Look at what happened to and in Britain when the Pound Sterling was replaced by the dollar as the world reserve currency. The British empire fell apart in a catastrophic way and did so rather quickly. Britain went from THE world power to a small island in the North Atlantic almost overnight.
Combine all that with a posted national debt approaching 18 trillion and unfunded debt in excess of 100 trillion that no one likes to talk about..... considering that I've heard an estimate that all the wealth in the world is estimated at around 350 trillion..... we own 1/3 approx of that debt....
Interest rates are being kept artificially low for a reason. That reason is simple arithmetic. If interest rates rise, the money owed on our debt in interest payments would quickly exceed the income through taxes, and the ability of the US to make those interest payments to the bankers would not be possible to make.
Make no mistake..... that day is coming.... one way or another.
The economy can not remain propped up by the fed pumping more money into the supply.... (inflating the dollars) since they know good and well that we are on a dangerous course by doing that. No country, no economy has ever come out of that intact. But, on the other hand, if they stop pumping, the markets collapse. Watch the markets when they announce a simple cutting back or reduction in the amount of pumping. We're currently in the proverbial place of being between the rock and the hard place. They know it. Anybody notice the number of bankers in the top banks that have been committing suicide recently?
When will it happen? How will it happen? No one has that answer. There will be a trigger event, and when it happens, hold on.... because it will be one wild and crazy ride. Life as we know it will likely change in dramatic ways.
OK..... enough of my ramblings..... I got chores to do and preps to make....
BTW: I hope I'm truly way, way, way, off base in my thoughts and predictions......and all this will just be a little bump in the road to better things.....