fiat currency, imaginary money
That's cute that you think that is something that might happen, instead of it being the reality all along.
Currency, money as we who love and hate it call it, is a fiction. It's worth nothing. It's just paper (or metal, and base metals at that). It's not backed by anything (and even when it was, that was a joke - don't believe me? Try eating gold and silver.)
The only thing that holds everything together, what has always held it together, is that we all agree to be part of this huge fiction. Our combined belief is the only thing that supports it. It's the only thing that ever has. It's a form of faith, but pretty much without god.
Look, all of this is way out of control, and no one -not Republicans or Democrats, not Commies or Anarchists, not American's or Europeans, or artists, or economists, or social studies majors - NO ONE, has even the faintest idea of how to get it under control. It's a Frankenstein Monster, we created it, and now it looks like it could eat us. Because there is a very real danger inherent in an total financial collapse, and that's a related industrial collapse. The money ain't no thing, but take away 3 things, petro products (gas, lubes, miracle drugs and farming related chemicals), transportation for food, and the ability to purify water in quantities that are needed - that's the end of the world as you know it. The upside (I guess) is that about 80% of you are dead inside of the first year, so you won't have to be depressed for very long.
See, (and this has been true for a lot longer than people even think) THERE IS NO MONEY. Nothing is real. Nothing physical. It's just ink on a page, and bits and bites in computers, and entries in logs. It's not real. There is no there there. The daily amounts of money being transacted on a global scale are astronomical, in real time no one knows how much they are, we only find out in retrospect. So no one is working for anything of tangible value. Nothing is real. It was ink, then magnetic ink, now just ones and zeros, swiriling around the wires and cells of the world, being posted here, there and everywhere. But its not real. None of it is.
It works, and will continue to work - like Peter Pan flys - by everyone believing. That's it, that's all.
And try to pick a country that has at least 15% of GDP from natural resources in it's own economy both the military power as well as the will to go and take what it needs, regardless of the morality of doing that. That's the basic rule of history. It's always been true. No reason to think it will ever change.
Norway, Switzerland and Iceland - ah no, because what you cite is just a bunch of laws/social junk/vague statistics. All that stuff can change overnight. And given an apocalypse it will. What you want is a place that grows enough food to feed itself. PERIOD. And since not freezing to death in a real winter has been (and would be again) a real luxury item, very, very expensive, move someplace tropical, or at least someplace with (and it's the reason that such palaces were the 'cradle of civilization' and all that, and Norway was not) a Mediterranean Climate and plenty of fresh water. If the water is running (as in rivers) that's a bonus, because that makes power.
Buy precious metals (physical, not derivative products or credit notes) like gold and silver as a hedge.
>>Now I don't know but I been told
it's hard to run with the weight of gold
Other hand I heard it said
it's just as hard with the weight of lead
Perhaps as a currency hedge, maybe, given a total collapse, then you have to ask of what value are they anyway? Aren't gold and silver like Roman/Middle Ages stuff? Are they really the most precious metals on earth now. (I'm guessing NO, platinum has more industrial uses) Are people really going to trade food and water for some hunk of metal? Could well be that the most valuable metal is lead, and the preferred method of storing it is in the highly popular 9mm form. Far more likely to trade not shooting people for food, then gold. Historically that's always been true also.
Move to Canada?
Sure, because if the Euro and the dollar go into free-fall it's going to be all about the loonies. Canada's money is in the huge, general, vague, bits and bites like all other industrial nations, as they go, so goes Canada.
If there was a general economic collapse as you are all speculating about - a true Industrial Collapse - then pretty much your gender worries will shrink to almost nothing, as basic survival is a 24/7 thing with no margin for error.
