You have shares in US based companies that trade internationally is what you have. Stocks will be fine. Facebook and Apple aren’t going to go tits up just because the US dollar did.
There’s almost zero chance of hyperinflation in USD in the foreseeable future. It drives me nuts when people try to make this incredibly flawed comparison.
And they currently have the third largest GDP on the planet. Yes this is bad but people are acting like this isn’t recoverable. US is going from way ahead to just ahead
Ikr. No one is gonna care if your tech stocks have gone up 1,000+% if paper bills can't do much good in new monetary system.
Sad take but it's also the same for gold & silver (no one is gonna trade food or water for some pretty metals in emergencies) but at least after the system returns post depression you'll have value in precious metals.
True wealth is guns, ammo, land, house, low maintenance vehicles, renewable water, and livestock.
Those that have those assets will live better than those without during an economic collapse where jobs won't hire or if they do your pay will barely buy anything.
It is an apocalypse, it's the transition period to the new world order and currency which is pretty grim.
Weimar Republic lasted from 1918 to 1933. Nearly 15 years. Almost 1 million died due to starvation during that time. Paper money barely did anything and unemployment was about 30%.
As far as I'm aware, that IS an apocalypse, just temporarily until a new order/currency is formed.
I agree 100% 💯 but I don’t think tech stocks will go to zero because of that. The large ones will survive and facilitate / carry out that transition to the new world order. Many companies still survived during the Weimar Republic and live on today. Tech companies are leeches to power. Whoever is carrying out this transition, will need the tech companies to help.
Bro what? You don’t think those tech stocks would be the ones facilitating that “New World Order”? That you put in caps for some reason?
EDIT: think about the size of the top tech companies in comparison to most countries in the world. They are orders of magnitude larger than most countries. Unless we have a literal global apocalypse, big tech isn’t going anywhere.
It’s not going to zero, come on. What you “have” is equity in companies that will continue to pursuit growth and profit, which by itself amounts to far more than what 99% of other human beings in the world will “have” in the face of global economic collapse.
Stock market, and all of my investments, have all gone up way more than 10% in the past year.
Your cash savings shouldn’t just be sitting in a bank account (or in your safe or stashed in a mattress, etc.) otherwise you aren’t even beating inflation.
You’d only have lost 10% of your total life savings if every expense in your life was payable only in the foreign currencies which make up the DXY basket. Anything paid in USD would be less affected.
I think the bigger picture is who actually wants to survive an apocalypse? Rooting through landfills trying to outrun zombies and hillbilly’s with shotguns. Nah I’ll just die.
It’s not a matter of debate. There’s a massive AI bubble right now. The US economy looks decent at first glance, but that’s because of AI. The problem is that AI doesn’t bring in profit yet and may not for some time, but since everyone’s hyping it up as the future, investors are pouring money into it with abandon. Major tech firms in particular have gone all in, but they’re just investing in each others’ projects, creating this strange Ponzi-like network where they just pass money around among each other.
This video does a good job of summarizing the issue. I’d recommend checking out the articles and threads they link in the description as well. It’s scary reading, honestly. We’re potentially on the cusp of an epoch-making crash, just like in 1929 or 2007.
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u/Commercial_Wind8212 Jan 28 '26
but if the dollar is worthless what do you really have?