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by neffy 2370 days ago
For hyperinflation risks - keep an eye on your countries money supply, specifically the total amount of money held in bank deposits. This shouldn´t be growing at more than 6-7% a year. If it is, owning gold or a stable currency growing less than that(Euro, US dollar) is a good idea.

Try to find out how much loan securitization is going on - this is a financial instrument that lets banks and others trade loans - it is highly destabilising over time, as it increases the ratio of debt to money. It there is a lot of that going on, without a high monetary expansion, try to build up a buffer to take advantage of the forthcoming crash.

Otherwise, just hang on. These are multi-year processes, and usually global financial crashes actually originate in the USA, for systemic reasons, so keep an eye on what´s going on there.

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What are the systemic reasons that global crashes start in the US versus other countries?
US is extraordinarily import based while having remote businesses.

That makes it very global impact. Any failure in the USA will be felt by those offshore businesses causing effects on the related economies. Some are more resilient to this than others. It depends on how healthy is the internal manufacturing. E.g. a China crash would also have a similar impact nowadays because the offshore businesses would have problems, but has not happened yet.