[concerned about politics]

I really don’t think anyone is smart enough to know when the collapse will come. But, yes, the farce will keep going for quite some time because ALL the Central Banks are playing the same game. The Powers-That-Wannabe all have the same fundamental goal: stave off social upheaval.

Well put. Good job. That's exactly what we're witnessing, and you put it into understandable terms.

(We have a false economy, but I've always found it hard to explain).

[jpsb]

IMHO the collapse is happening at this very moment. It is a slow moving train wreck. All I know is everyday it gets harder to pay the bills, everyone I know is struggling and theft is up, big time. I am watching a slow descent which likely will take a few years before we (middle class, working class) are all starving in the dark.