[PA Engineer]

Watching the same. The US is also masking the drop in both rail and long haul truck traffic. Those are down 11%.

I am focusing now on negative interest rates as a trigger here.

The problem is global including China. Venezuela is a test tube of failed Keynesian and Socialist economics.

I think we are headed into a perfect storm of a failed fiat global currency, failed central planning, climate change (Not what people think. Check out this weekends weather. Mini Ice Age), agricultural failures, legitimacy collapse of central governments, and commodity deflation.

I think time is running out to prepare.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

PA Engineer :" The US is also masking the drop in both rail and long haul truck traffic. Those are down 11%."

Yeah , I saw the photos of the 292 train locomotives sitting in the desert- that represents US shipping within the borders - the photo says reduction of internal shipping.

PA Engineer :" The problem is global including China.
Venezuela is a test tube of failed Keynesian and Socialist economics. "

Quite true ! Frist you run out of luxuries (like toilet paper, beer , etc.) and then no backup supplies of essentials (like milk, bread, eggs, flour, etc).
Then you have internal transport shutting down (OTR Trucks, railroads, local haulers, etc.)so that even local grown commodities can't be transported to local markets ,
you are looking at total economic shutdown.
If you add " agricultural failures, legitimacy collapse of central governments, and commodity deflation " , you have no market to get goods to be transported for sale.

PA Engineer:" ..we are headed into a perfect storm of a failed fiat global currency "

With no value to fiat currency , other than full faith in the government, and no precious metals to back it up, the currency is based only on 'lip-service'.