Flim-Flam

We operated this country for many years on credit, borrowed mainly from ourselves and other countries.
All that is currently falling apart and the process of flim-flam has begun.
That is where we swap stuff (barter) with one another, cheating the other fellow as much as we can to get the best deal.
The Arabs have been masters at this for centuries.
During our depression of the 1930s, many flim-flam people ran the countryside and cities, coming out ahead enough in a day to continue surviving.
People really are smarter now than then, so I expect to see some doozies!
The beginning has already started, at the top, like it always does. Hedge funds and speculators usually skim off the cream and only leave blue-john for the rest.
Those making more money than they earn, out of fear, attempt to gather the crimbs also in order not to fall to the depths of depression later!
We escaped the Great Depression finally with a Great War, after mobilizing mostly farmers and kids to build things and fight. Many Females also were conned into factory work--leaving their kids to the elements.
So, unless we can find a way to print some more dollars that are worth anything, or get someone to loan us some more, we are in for a bunch of foreclosures and bankruptcies.
You will also see the real selfish, evil ones glean all that is left into their treasury.
Only this time I don't know who will grow the food! With food and water one can survive, but I fear that will be the very first products hoarded and made scarce.
We already are seeing sages on TV (T. BOONE Pickens, Al Gore, and others, with all of the answers---but the answers all take many years.
The only answer now is for those that have both treasure and intelligence to use it correctly so that we can avoid nuclear holocaust.
Better not write all this off as gibberish.....we are close!