Thank you for your long informative reply.

It's always good to see things for yourself and not to rely on the main stream media. From your observations, it substantiates Greg Hunter's account of the crop losses/crisis. It seems that the crops you mentioned are at least six or more weeks behind in the growing season!

As Jim Rickards wrote in a recent article:
Currency wars are a way to steal growth from trading partners by reducing the cost of exports. The problem is that this tactic does not work because trade partners retaliate by reducing the value of their own currencies. This competitive devaluation goes back and forth for years.

Everyone is worse off and no one wins.

It will be good to have silver, gold, bitcoin, real estate, a little cash, and be debt free when 'the end' comes.

Yes, having real assets and NOT paper is the solution.