Would you like to get totally freaked out by the same brand of whack-job that predicted the housing bubble, the dot com bubble, and the financial crisis of 2008?  If so, check out this poorly presented but startlingly unassailable presentation that outlines the type of American demise that resonates on frequencies that only dogs and highly experienced mental patients can hear.

We've had our share of crazy macroeconomic predictions that didn't quite pan out (e.g. $YCS, $QQQQ, $EUO and $QID) but if this guy is right, especially about the oil part, then hold onto your asses we're in for a bumpy ride!  With the recent stories about the ETF-ization of the Chinese yuan, combined with the possibility of pricing oil in a basket of currencies led by the yuan, this hum-drum fund tracking the previously-pinned yuan could be a pop tart.

I did a little freakonomics research on the concepts discussed in the nutzo presentation, and found that the phrase "Center on Budget and Policy Priorities" is the first Google suggested term when you start typing "Center on" and it has recently spiked significantly in Google Trends for the first time since the end of 2008.  Similarly, the second Google suggestion for "US will not" autocompletes to "US will not devalue its currency" right after the imminently ominous "US will not collapse."  And just for good measure, "the US will" instantly completes to, "the US will lose a China trade war" which I found to be rather quaint, until I noticed that numbers 2 through 4 were "default on its debt",  "collapse", and "fall."  Cute.  Thank you, Google.

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