The Parable of Falling Empires, or What Happens to (Your) Wealth as America Collapses

I have a friend. Poor guy, because he’s going to be the center of a little parable I’m about to tell you.

I know you’ve been wondering: how high is the price of American collapse going to be? What’ll be left? Of society, of prosperity, of the economy, of my own wealth? I’m going to teach you how to answer that question, my this little parable, and by the end, in hard terms, we’ll get to what the price of a collapsing empire, once the the heart of a global economy, really is. You will have a concrete way to understand how much of your wealth is at risk, and society’s too.

Now. This is going to teach you a lot, and you need to know it, to stay grounded in times like these, so sit with me around the campfire, and listen to my story.

My friend. He’s a successful enough fellow. Corporate executive, owns a nice house in a respectable suburb, drives a nice car, and so on. All the trappings of upper middle class levels of wealth, which if it sounds condescending, shouldn’t, because in today’s America, that’s no mean feat. It is a rare accomplishment, to be savored.

And yet my friend is miserable. Stressed. Depressed. Don’t worry, it’s not me I’m secretly talking about—I’m every bit the cliche of the cool guy, prowling the empty…