I don't read too much into what these economic forecasters say anymore, because they've been predicting an economic collapse and dollar death for at least 7 years. However, I do watch for a key indicator that will closely precede economic calamity, despite this indicator not being remotely economic or financial.

Here is the indicator: When you hear or see a few, yet rapid, onset of clustered pathogenic outbreaks of a novel avian or swine flu in the Far East, and just a few infections reach the States within about 24-36 hrs, then you can bet an economic collapse is very soon around the corner. Right after those few infections in the U.S., there will be a wildfire of infections here and around the world. This will be a manufactured pandemic used as a scapegoat for collapsing the economy because everything will come to a standstill. Only the top Money Lenders, aka the Bankersteins, know when the collapse is coming because they're manipulating the system to fail, but before the collapse, they'll kick start the pandemic. Fear of the virus, and want for government protection, will supplant rage and revolt against the establishment elite and the status quo that sustains their very livelihoods. The pandemic will be the ultimate diversion.

Keep an eye on Ebola and MERS-CoV, too. One of those viruses could be used as the pathogen; and both are more stable than flu, hence they're more predictable and less likely to mutate or become recombinant into something beyond the plan and control of those who engineered the virus / pandemic in the first place.