The central planners have managed to keep the ship from sinking and the band playing for almost three years. They may finally be running out of stop gaps.

Many financial advisers suggest a balanced portfolio of stocks and bonds. This strategy has worked since the 1960′s, and many advisers believe it will work going forward. Just listen to any Sunday afternoon AM talk show host promoting mutual funds. They’ll set you up with a diversified portfolio of blue chip stocks, US Treasuries and corporate bonds. In the past, when one went up, the other went down – providing security for savings.

We’re not talking about people not being able to buy iPads, new home decor, or Christmas presents for the kids. No, we’re talking about being able to put food on the table, paying the rent for shelter and putting gas in the car.

Let’s assume that our elected officials and the powers that be can’t reverse course. How bad can it really get?

For now, it seems deflation is taking hold (though it never really let go), but there remains a very powerful variable within the debate, and that is the government and how they will act going forward.

Our entire system has been corrupted by scoundrels and sociopaths, so don’t be surprised what we find on the other side.

At this point, we are stuck between a rock and a hard place. The financial and economic systems are going down. Regardless of what we do now, the system will be purged, one way or another.

Any number of events could be a catalyst for a global economic avalanche. Once it starts, no bailout can stop it.

The Fed and other central banks have done a good job covering up the mess they deliberately created by deceiving the public, as they prepare for stage 2 of the credit crisis.

If you watch mainstream news and listen to the propaganda coming out of Washington, you’d think Bob Chapman has completely lost his mind. But, dear reader, if you are here at SHTF Plan, then this likely reinforces everything your gut is telling you.

The International Forecaster explains why gold will rise, what will happen with the economy, and what to expect from unemployment.

If the SHTFers are right, then this recession is simply a cyclical wave within a larger, much broader, Greater Depression wave. As such, a new downward move is not far away.

Alex Jones (infowars.com) and Bob Chapman discuss the economic crisis including the causes, manipulators, precious metals, and time frames for collapse of the financial and economic systems as we know them.

If you believe that the economic crisis will continue to worsen, then sitting around and waiting for it to hit you like a Tsunami is probably the last thing you should do.

You should be participating in the bull markets in gold, silver and commodities. That is where safety, preservation of capital and possible large gains are to be found, both short and long term.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see what most economists can’t. The system is broken.

In his recent article, The Flight to Quality Lands on Gold, Internatonial Forecaster Bob Chapman discusses ways to protect wealth and avoid personal financial disaster

International Forecaster Bob Chapman discusses the Chinese derivative time bomb set to explode very soon. Upon detonation it may result in a complete collapse of the COMEX gold, silver and commodities markets and pretty much a total SHTF scenario.

We wanted to remind our friends in the deflationary camp that they seem to be forgetting about the crony capitalist bailout mentality that is setting us up for hyperinflation.

Bonds are collapsing and it is only a matter of time before a complete meltdown occurs. Be on the right side or be destroyed.

The International Forecaster breaks down the reasons for why we should be alarmed about the next phase of the global crisis.

Bob Chapman says The Fed is the Ultimate Zombie and that we have been on a road of inflation, headed towards hyperinflation, for quite some time.

Bob Chapman, in his article Spending, Debt and Collapse Predicts Hyperinflation discusses the microeconomic and macroeconomic conditions that lead to deflation and inflation, and how this may play out in the future.

The International Forecaster, Bob Chapman, says The Credit Crisis is Not Over After 23 Months.

The Chairman of the Fed, Ben Bernanke, would have us believe along with other, so-called experts, that monetary easing will come in time to head off hyperinflation.