From the Great Depression to the Great Recession, economic collapse has threatened society at various stages. The modern world, with our reliance on electronics and fiat money, makes us more vulnerable to economic forces outside our control than ever. Prepping is a practice whereby we prepare for disasters, which may take on a myriad of forms and could result in societal collapse.
Movies often portray actual or imagined events that could lead to societal collapse. The genre of economic collapse movies does not really portray action-packed scenes of people fighting off infected. However, the reality of financial collapse is much more likely and nefarious.
Imagine waking up in a world where no institution has any record of you, the property you say you own, or the savings or shares you used to own. Or, in a world where corporations go bankrupt en masse, creating widespread unemployment, disrupting supply chains, bringing ports to a halt, and creating ecological havoc.
Many people believe that the government and big business have their backs and that smart and responsible people are in control. The list of movies below suggests otherwise.
These films offer compelling stories regarding the abuse of power at the highest levels, gross incompetence, and just the general criminality of many of those whom we esteem as leaders and protectors. This list of movies serves as a wake-up call to all who trust the system or those who want to get a deeper insight into how and where average Joes are facing injustice.
The Big Short (2015)
This film, directed by Adam McKay, is based on the events leading up to the 2008 housing market collapse and the resulting financial crisis.
It shows clearly how greed and hubris caused widespread financial loss, resulting in a lot of human suffering.
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Margin Call (2011)
This thriller takes place over 24 hours and depicts the reaction of a specific large investment bank during the early stages of the 2008 economic crisis.
You will see how certain employees struggle with moral questions regarding withholding critical information from people who trust them, and you will see how the owners of the bank act unanimously to save themselves at the expense of others.
Inside Job (2010)
This documentary examines the factors that led to the 2008 economic crisis. Through interviews with financial experts, the producer explores the systemic corruption and regulatory failures that allowed the crime to take place.
The Company Men (2010)
This movie follows three individuals who lose their jobs due to layoffs. It offers a heart-rending portrayal of the struggles people face during economic downturns, reminding us that when things are bad, corporations care only for themselves.
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
This well-known movie based on a Steinbeck novel depicts the plight of a family of farmers during the 1940 Depression.
It powerfully shows how destructive poverty can be and how human resilience and greatness of spirit can triumph over any hardship.
Wall Street (1987)
This classic drama, directed by Oliver Stone, follows a young stockbroker who becomes involved with a wealthy and unscrupulous corporate raider. The film takes a sober and unsettling look at greed, corruption, and moral ambivalence in the world of high finance.
Too Big to Fail (2011)
The film chronicles the events of the 2008 financial crisis and the efforts of government officials and Wall Street executives to prevent a total economic collapse.
This behind-the-scenes look offers some insight into how the decisions that shape our lives are made.
Up in the Air (2009)
This film starts George Clooney as a corporate downsizer who travels the country, firing employees on behalf of companies going through economic hardships. It explores the human cost of corporate restructuring and job loss.
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
The film is based on the book by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind. It examines the collapse of Enron, one of the largest corporate scandals in American History. Welcome to a world of corporate malfeasance and a culture of greed.
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The Insider (1999)
Starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino, this drama is based on the true story of Jeffrey Wigand, a whistleblower who exposed the tobacco industry’s manipulation of nicotine levels and knowledge of the harmful effects of smoking.
They knew all along that they were killing millions; they still know it, as do we, and they still sell their products and make millions. But I bet their ESG looks good, so maybe we should buy some shares, hey?
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
This biographical black comedy follows the rise and fall of Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker who engaged in widespread corruption and fraud on Wall Street during the 1990s.
This film is a sad indictment on society that someone like Jordan Belfort can swindle millions from people but still be the object of respect.
The film satirically depicts the moral bankruptcy of the financial world. The people who look after our grandparent’s pensions and your savings.
Erin Brockovich (2000)
This famous film again shows why corporations should not be trusted. In this David versus Goliath tale, the little guy, as does the environment, wins. Sadly, this is likely one of the few instances that this actually happens.
Corporate and political corruption is prevalent and hardly hidden anymore.
Companies and politicians pander to the crazy ideas of minority and niche groups while poisoning the environment and getting embroiled in international conflicts that may set off World War 3.
In times of instability, being self-sufficient is more important than ever. While movies can provide glimpses into the hardships that may come, practical resources like this guide offer tangible skills every prepper needs to master.
Think of it as a toolkit for independence. When societal structures waver and resources become scarce, having the know-how to live off the land can make all the difference. Here you will learn not just how to survive, but how to thrive in the face adversity, just like our ancestors did.
Consider it your insurance policy against the unknown. While others may struggle to adapt, those armed with the insights from this guide will be better equipped to handle whatever challenges arise.
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There will always be financial concerns with progressive and conservative leadership. We keep going with tax, spend, tax more and borrow from enemies like China. America will totally collapse in 20 years by the debt incurred by the deep state progressives in Washington DC, the sanctuary blue states. Including our Demoncrat run cities and the radical Muslim gangs openly shouting death to America with Mexican drug cartels supplying China’s fentanyl.
What kind of America do we legal an native born Americans want for leadership in 2024 presidential election?
Let’s go Brandon, he funds Iran that funds Gaza Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthi against Israel and the USA.
We got radical Muslims from the open borders, Dearborn Michigan need to be nuked in their up coming revolution to kill every American the hate.
We can blame the progressive American movement since the beginning of America. Are we a Christian nation or a secular nation?
Radical Muslims are made not born. How would you act if your country was invaded by a massive foreign power who stole and occupied your land and killed your families with smart bombs and the latest war tech? Tax payer money should be spent at home making a better country for its citizens not going out to make unnecessary enemies. The real enemy of us all is the military-industrial complex, the banks, the corporations and the Zionist New World Order which controls them all. Eisenhower and Kennedy both warned us but we have not listened.
The biden regime funds Iran and Gaza while “simultaneously” funding Israel with weapons to attack Iran and Gaza. They are clearly looking for an escalation in the middle east. Peace isn’t good for business……
To Hernan C,
Radical Muslims are both made and born into a ‘Cast System ‘ like in India.
The have a genetic hatred towards Christians since the tow brothers in the bible split. One Jewish, the other a Muslim, we see organized religion and politics are the great dividers of mankind. The true religion values have been diluted by many fractures of religions and cultism.
Many are too born into a hatred mindset through their upbringing since the first testament to our modern world of today.
Tax money needs to be used for what the founding fathers devised our America. To defend America against foreign and domestic enemies, what the deep state deems as enemies of the state.
Fix our infrastructure first, really balance America’s budget to never barrow money and be held in debt by China.
Close the open borders and drill for oil, not prepare for Bidenomics world war 3.
20 years may be more like 20 months.
We have taxation without representation and today’s politicians don’t represent us anymore. The American teacher’s public school unions have dumbed down Americans for several decades, it shows.
Dark,
That 20 months is more likely when the Chinese CCP has taken over America. Through a weak Manchurian Candidate president and weak mind voters who are into pronouns.
I have three pronouns; Kick, Your, Ass; – dumb bass liberals.
Reiterate last said:
The big things in voting for the next president are the economy and Abortion.
Bidenomics sucks, China is flooding cheap butt steel products through Mexico and other minor trade groups. While CCP uses the grade A steel for their military, to take Taiwan and the USA eventually.
Abortion is a depopulation method on Blacks and Americans in general to make room for the illegals and Chinese nationals flooding America. Thank you for nothing Bite Me puppet of the CCP!
Abortion is legalized murder of a living human being to whatever the liberals say. Even after the child is born out of the mother’s body, breathing for an inexact time.
Maybe we can abort politicians and illegals and radical Muslims by the radical progressive liberal law makers and activist in our America as we know it today.
https://michaelsavage.com/usda-and-china-ccp-lab-are-creating-deadly-bird-flu-viruses-as-part-of-1m-collaboration-and-you-are-paying-for-it/
Will Dr Fauci and the CCP, cause another Covid rigged election of mail in ballots and illegals voting in 2024?
Will America go back to mask and COVID vaccines and lockdowns, mail ballots to get another 4 years of progressive Biden-Obama leadership?
Remember Hollywood is run by China CCP and the CIA organizations to manipulate the truth.
Independent movies are more down to earth reality than the current swampy garbage hollyweed puts out on the big screen theaters nation wide.
I go by what I experience in daily life of what we Americans buy for food, insurance, utilities. Don’t need a movie to show me, someone or a group that lives in a big city their problems. I might live in a small town struggling worst than the characters are doing with these open border illegals getting a free ride.
Deport a lot, build the wall and drill for oil, to hell with Let’s Go Brandon, do it now, seal the border for God’s sake.
God bless us overtaxed taxpayers!
You forgot ‘Live Free or Die Hard’ with Bruce Willis. What are the chances of a “fire sale” these days? I bet better than usual.
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) is one of my all time favorite films, my folks lived that and burned those values into my head and backside growing up. Tom Joad and me have much in common, both is temperament and in outlook, though a lot of Casy is running between the lines in me as well; guess I’m complicated.
Grapes of Wrath is an excellent movie. The film highlights the strength of the American working class family and it’s will to survive in the harshest of social economic conditions and makes us think about everything we take for granted.
The great depression was planned, the poor farming practices of the 1920’s to the 1940’s causing the great dust storms of valuable farm soil gone. Govt planned pesticide spraying and chemical fertilizers has decimated our American farm crops, less vital nutrients left for crops.
Many grapes of wrath were mindless Democratic voters. Americans back then did switch parties after waking up to the truth.
A lot could be prevented, they and us today get blindsided by the liberal news media, theirs was more radio and newspaper manipulation. Today we have fake news and Artificial Intelligence to deal with.
The debt bomb by current economist say that can happen in 5 years. The total collapse will happen after that. We will be in a worse situation then the Great Depression was and the many mini depressions and bailout we have up to now.
America was not built to feed, house and clothe the world or the open borders world illegals we have getting a free ride here in America.
That is not capitalism, that is socialism we have pushed by the Marxist encampment of the very deep state useful idiots of wokeism.
BOTTOM LINE
YOU MUST BE ABLE TO DEFEND ,ANSER THE CALL ,BE PREPARED FOR THE MASSIVE INVASION
Fact : the dc crime familys have invaded our countries with military age fighting men , not immigrants
brought in drugs , cartels, control mechanisms to force compliance and ensure loyalty by the forigners , and dont care about you or what damage they do
any means neccessary , this is not the movies , REAL LIFE
Crime , trafficing, slavery in the making
notice they are glued to thier phones for control
and if non compliance , then the evil cartels take out the whole family
this is INVASION , Treason, crime like you never prepared for
GET READY \ coming soon , and its real life
keep watch on the large cities where they are being set up FREE , YOUR Taxes paiy this
beginning of the fulfilment of scripture ,
Gods Prophecies being fulfilled , and deception everywhere
we only have what we have because of the graciousness of the overlords
Dream on with your inter dimension BS.
America is being attack because of corruption by the Trojan Horse in the white house and his minions. Our America is being sold out to the Chinese and other lessor known tin pot dictators.
Biden is loosing grip on reality about all his lies told. His uncle didn’t die by cannibals and the BS about this son Beau dies of brain cancer not from the many fibs Biden has said. Biden lies even when his lips don’t move.
Thank you all you sick twisted Demoncrats who voted and the RINO’s for a rigged Biden election, that happens in a banana republic.
In spite of the useless parasitic sponges and eaters you call the “overlords”.
We are in a slow motion US treasury bond default, covered up by Fed banksters money printing to buy treasuries no one else in the world wants. It’s akin to borrowing money from one credit card to pay off another. Just delaying the inevitable.
You missed a very obvious movie, “Rollover”, 1981, with Kris Kristofferson and Jane Fonda.
I was the movie when it came out and haven’t forgotten it. From Wikipedia, the penultimate scene described:
the Arabs panic and pull all of their money out of every bank in the United States,and possibly the entire world.
The globe is gripped by panic and rioting as people discover all of their money is now worthless. Emery is shown in his office – dead, an apparent suicide. The economic crisis paralyzes the world, but by spilling over boundaries between east and west blocs, and between developing and industrialized nations, it also unites the world in common cause.
The top movie that influenced me the most was a docudrama on the History channel in 2009 called After Armageddon. It was a drama that nearly played out to the exact script of the 2020-21 pandemic. It follows a family in LA and the decisions they have to go through in a world pandemic crisis and what eventually plays out in the future. Best & scariest thing I have ever watched. (Actually know some of the areas that they filmed it) Made me realize how fragile the veneer of society is & they had prior documented examples and experts overview it showing that society is just an illusion after missing your 3rd meal. I believe that it is still available on YouTube. The History channel took it off their listing. Everyone should watch it to understand how fast and hard everything will fall.
YouTube link for the movie
The Wolrd After Armageddon
Have a Wonderful Day!😁
The problem isn’t economic collapse, that’s just one of the tools, it is cultural and humanitarian collapse. That is what the current “New World Order” low-lifes are pushing. They have to collapse everything just as Mao did in China – first the butchery, then the cultural revolution, then the elimination of those who help carry out the cultural revolution. The woke haven’t a clue as to what they are caught up in.
China is the model – a communism reinforced with technocracy (check out Patrick M Wood’s book “Technocracy rising” or his website). The Chinese people had a bit of a holiday over the last few decades as the “elite” used them to take over the production of goods and war materials from the West, in order to collapse it; but now that they are almost there, no doubt the Chinese leadership will start tightening the clamps again, and no doubt we will see a reduction in the Chinese population as they become redundant – like the West.
That doesn’t mean all is lost, we need to get together in our communities and keep things going. The truth is – we do not need the so called “elite”, they’re just the parasites of humanity. They need us, just not so many of us. They try to create the illusion that we need them by creating dependence on them, but we do not need them – never did. They need us to satisfy their needs because they are incapable of it – they’re incapable of creation of anything of worth. Only us decent people are capable of creation of a functional, productive, healthy, flourishing and prosperous society/civilisation.
And no, we do not need money. Money is ultimately merely a symbol that represents goods and services. The “elite” made it a control and slavery mechanism and then started forging it by creating out of thin air in their banking system. We can replace it with barter and eliminate their control, and eventually create something better.
When I began my career in the insurance industry, Insurance companies held their profits and reserves to pay claims primarily in Mortgage-Backed Securities. 2008 changed that.
In October 2023 insurance companies’ appetite for new business was throttled dramatically. Moratoriums were issued to prevent new business, and what seems to be an active campaign to non-renew existing policies.
National Association of Insurance Commissioners Special Report from Year End of 2022 states That Insurance Companies have $8.2 Trillion in total cash and investments. 62.3% Bonds ($5.1 Trillion+) with the remainder being in Common Stocks, Mortgages, and Schedule BA Assets (ie. Un-Rated Fixed Income Securities) in that order.
Dodd-Frank “Wallstreet Reform Act” in 2010 effectively repealed the Glass-Stiegel act of 1933 which required the separation of investment houses and commercial banking entities. (Insurance companies fell into the category of “commercial banking” so that they didn’t have any additional market risks.) Since its repeal many insurance companies found they had to accept investment risks in order to offset inflation in a 0% interest rate environment.
Kansas City Fed in Second Quarter 2023 Report Estimates unrealized losses of Securities Portfolio’s to be 30% (I don’t believe that 25 basis point increases in May or July are included in that, so I would estimate the unrealized losses to be closer to 40%) (30% = Unrealized loss of +$1.5 Trillion)
Insurance Companies are at the same risks as Large Regional Banks now if there’s a large call for liquidity. The Paradise Fires in California in 2018 cost the Insurance Industry $12 Billion, if there’s even a 30% unrealized loss selling enough bonds to cover a catastrophic event like this it would cost the Insurance industry more than $17 Billion, and that doesn’t account for the 5 years of inflation that we’ve had since before COVID. (Used Cars have increased in value by 40% year over year for the past 3 years straight.) Most Insurance Companies work on 3-5% profit margins, (albeit of very large amounts of money) but none of them can absorb a 30-40% loss.
I serve as an “Advisory Council” member for a very large insurance company, and last month in a meeting a Regional Operation’s manager for this company stated that they needed to increase their rates by 50%, but the State would only approve a 6% rate increase. I have never, in more than 30 years heard a call for a 50% rate increase.
If even one insurance company fails, or requires a “Bail Out,” the entire economy will collapse. If a producer cannot insure their goods, they will not get to market. No plastic crap in the Dollar Stores, but also no food in the Supermarkets.
If the FED bailed out $8.2 Trillion in Insurance losses, representing almost 25% of the entire GDP, that would set off hyper-inflation.
Off the Record, I’m wondering if this isn’t by design. It seems to me, living through the 70’s and 80’s that FED Chair Paul Volker’s raising interest rates to “fight inflation” at that time was not what brought back the economy, but instead it was more likely the opening of the Alaskan Pipeline and affordable energy that brought us back. Current events seem like the “Perfect Storm” where our government is limiting energy after eradicating virtually all manufacturing and making us purely a consumer society. They are Printing more and more currency which devalues the currency itself while driving up the prices of all goods and services, not to mention commodities and housing being beyond the reach of average families. I could not think of a more effective way than this to destroy the middle class. Could this be to force the “need” to replace currency with CBDC’s? Would Nation States be absolved of their debt by doing so?
At the same time, the financial markets as “regulated” by the CTFC are making derivative moves that tamp down the market of Precious Metals, creating arbitrage opportunities for China, India, and other BRICS nations to absorb the Precious Metals of the West, and we have no industry to attract them back into our economy.
What are Andy’s thoughts on BRICS creating a Bi-Metal Economy Standard with a set Gold to Silver Ratio as was usual prior to 1873?
Political Advantages include:
– More than Doubles world money supply.
– Increases costs for all electronics which are primarily manufactured by BRICS Nation States.
– Exponentially increases the cost of offensive weapons and guidance systems i.e. Tomahawk Missiles with 500 Troy Ounces of Silver each.
Do you have any speculation regarding Jacob Rothschild’s death on Feb.26? Their family fortune must include precious metals to hedge against all the government currencies. What are the potential Global monetary effects of his death?
In the event of what I believe to be an inevitable fiat currency collapse, I can’t think of anyone better situated to assume the role as a “central bank,” if you’ll forgive the term, in a support role to local coin stores and the distribution of precious metals. Is that something that you have considered at Miles Franklin?
How can we prevent the international arbitrage that is likely occurring today; hopefully before there is a massive Bond crash and debilitating Depression? I fear that Western societies are trading their Precious Metals for “plastic crap” at the Dollar Store.
The United States and all Western Nations are committing Financial Suicide, and the rest of the world is smart enough to not interrupt us while we do it.
On my business card it says “Asset Preservation Services” just below my name. It occurs to me that I leverage the assets of a multi-trillion-dollar industry to protect the assets of my clients for a fair premium; Miles-Franklin leverages the custodial ownership of the world’s most precious resources to protect your clients’ assets against increased world inflation rates and government credit risks for a fair premium. No other asset class is so empowered. Insurance can protect physical assets like homes and cars from sudden and accidental losses, but the only thing that can protect wealth from degradation caused by governments or other outside sources is physical possession of Gold and Silver, and the risk and acceleration of that degradation has increased exponentially over the past 30 years.