What happens when (not if, but when) the electricity fails? It doesn’t even have to be a big event, but merely a winter storm or a high wind that can take down power lines and leave people unable to heat, cook, drive, see, or otherwise function.
For those of us who prefer cash, we can only keep clinging to our greenback habits as long as we're able. Once that opportunity passes, what then? Only time will tell.
The Great Depression started with a dramatic bang – the stock market crash – but not every incident of economic turmoil begins like that. Many traumatic events begin with a whisper.