America’s Economy is Collapsing Right in Front of Everyone’s Eyes... People Are Panicking

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]The American economy was already fragile before the war. As this prolonged war continues, the system continues to weaken. Everything is beginning to break and everyone is beginning to feel it.

[00:00:11]The American economy is collapsing right before our eyes. Have you realized?

[00:00:15]Let's take you to economics class real quick, why don't we? Take notes. This is about to be some valuable information teaching everyone why we are where we are. All right, y'all need to understand that the reason why the strait being closed for so long means an economic collapse, it's not because the strait's the most important thing in the world.

[00:00:31]Though kind of is. But it's because it triggers all the other dominoes to fall.

[00:00:37]The economy has been like a house of cards that's been building for like the past 5, 10 years even, but the whole thing's been real shaky and the only reason that it's still even standing is because it's propped up by AI spending.

[00:00:51]Before the war for years, there's been an inflation problem keeping the Fed stuck. The consumer's been weak and getting weaker with record-high credit card debt. There's a massive private credit bubble and obviously the insane national debt, everybody knows about that. And if you ask the majority of people besides boomers and their spoiled kids, everyone will say, "Guys, we've been in a recession for years now. I don't know what anyone's talking about." But we've been propped up by Mag 7 spending.

[00:01:18]That's the whole thing. And that's why the strait is so significant because not only does it pop the AI bubble, which I've already broken down, but it also hits every single one of the other ones.

[00:01:29]So it's not just like taking one card out of the house of cards. No, you're taking a baseball bat to the entire thing. All of these were problems and bubbles before the war, but now with the strait being closed for this long and all the factories being destroyed, all of it gets triggered. All of it gets hit. This is why it's so important. It's not just the strait.

[00:01:49]Everyone who tries to make an excuse for Trump, they always just like, "Oh, you know, we make our own this, we make our own that." No, it's not how it works.

[00:01:56]Everything's traded on a global market, so if the prices are going up over there, it's going up over here, too. So, that of course leads to the first problem, the inflation problem.

[00:02:03]Inflation before the war was already a problem. It was already high and already not moving, which means the Fed cannot cut rates. And these rates weren't even high to begin with, and people were already desperate for the Fed to start cutting because their businesses were going under. But now the Fed literally cannot do anything. Because what do you think all the supply chain disruption does? It's a forced inflation. Inflation is the rising of prices, and that's that's what the disruption does.

[00:02:31]So, the Fed's either going to hold or hike, you get me? Which means these businesses These businesses that have already been feeling like it's been a recession, they're screwed, right? They're They're going down. So, that's one domino right there, but the other one is the consumer. The inflation directly hits the consumer. The consumer that's already weak. Okay, outside of the middle class garbage. No, none of them.

[00:02:53]We're talking about like 40% of the economy, the average consumer.

[00:02:58]You know what they're on? They're on credit cards. They're swiping They're maxed out on credit cards. You see the record high credit card numbers?

[00:03:06]That doesn't even paint the real picture. It's so much worse than people think because what they're actually doing these days, they're using BNPL, buy now pay later.

[00:03:14]They're using this to pay off the car and to pay for groceries and living expenses. They were already using credit cards wrong and using that as a band-aid for their life, and then they started using BNPL as another band-aid on top of that.

[00:03:27]When all of that pops, they're screwed.

[00:03:30]They can't spend, but not only that, they take down all the financials that were holding them up, all the private credit that's been holding them up. See what I mean? This is it's it's all tied together. The businesses fall, the consumers fall, and then the private credit falls, but then the private credit was also holding these two guys up at the same time. So, not only is it like, you know, a house of cards and one after another, but it's they're all directly being hit at the the time.

[00:03:51]So, today I sent both of my sons, who are both grown and live on their own now, I sent them videos to help them understand what's going on with the war so that they can mentally and financially prepare for what's to come.

[00:04:03]Granted, we have family that they can stay with, they can always come back home, but I don't think that a lot of the younger adults that did not live through the 2008 recession understand what we're about to go into because this is much worse than that. During the 2008 uh housing market collapse, it was it was mainly the housing market, but also restaurants were closing. I had just signed a lease um and then 3 weeks later the restaurant that I had been working at for 3 years went bankrupt.

[00:04:31]It was pretty bad. Part of the reason why I'm in so much student loan debt is because I took out loans during that time to live off of, not even for school, but to live off of.

[00:04:40]I just have to stop and say that like Gen Z, I don't maybe y'all are not Gen Z, maybe it's Gen Y, I don't know, I'm a millennial, I'm almost 40, but everybody in my neighborhood that's younger than me does not know how to interact, doesn't know how to smile, doesn't know how to nod, they act like they all grew up during COVID, and I know they didn't because they're too old for that. What the [ __ ] is wrong with people?

[00:04:57]Anyhoo, if you are part of the group that has never lived through a nationwide crisis, I need you to or a worldwide crisis aside from COVID, during COVID, people still were able to make money. You got to stay at home, and yes, it sucked, but at least you got money.

[00:05:12]Other countries have started to tell people to work from home because they know it's too expensive to drive to work.

[00:05:18]Do you understand what's going to happen when the nurses and the essential workers don't have the gas that they need to get to work?

[00:05:25]Part of the reason why my sister's hospital experience was so horrific was because the majority of the people on the floor were nursing students, and there was only one or two actual RN or BSNs. Now, I don't know if that's because of the whole student loan situation and then rolling it back, but that's very new for that to be a reason.

[00:05:43]I don't know if it's because of the one big beautiful bill and the closing of the hospitals. I I don't know what it is. I don't know. And maybe it's cuz Florida pays their nurses really bad. I don't know.

[00:05:53]But what I do know is whatever we're experiencing right now that we think is hard is not even a byproduct of the fact that the last big oil shipment, I need to double-check this, but what I heard is that after April 20th, which is already passed, that was one of the last oil tankers or something that we were going to get regardless. Whether that's accurate or not, guys, we're at the very beginning. You haven't seen Yeah, we ain't seen nothing yet. What we've seen so far is just a drop in the bucket. That's what I keep telling people, and I got to keep reminding people through repetition, people will learn. They might say, "YT, you always saying the same things." That's so it can be instilled in your mind through repetition.

[00:06:29]Right? So, sometimes I and I and I get new listeners, too, new viewers daily, every single day. For those that know, they know. Same thing with COVID, that was a test run for what we're seeing now. They're toying with one of these cruise ship viruses might be the new pandemic. It might be something else. We know that's coming to. The first one was a test run for the real one. This war will be the blame for the total collapse of the system. Also, they can blame the world debt being so high on it. They had to spend so much money going to war, right? This is a way to hide those Epstein files. It's really a whole cover-up. They're going to use the war.

[00:07:01]It's going to get bad due to the war.

[00:07:03]anything yet.

[00:07:04]And for the majority of time, Americans have been able to enjoy basically living like people in the capital in The Hunger Games, not being affected by what's going on in the outside world. Well, that bubble of protection is soon going to be gone.

[00:07:17]So, if you're a young person who doesn't watch the news and or doesn't take this seriously, I need you to start saving your money. If you uh have Capital One, they have high-interest savings accounts, but they're not as high as Ally, A L L Y, but again, who knows if your money's going to be safe. I'm also going to advise you to try to cut back on spending as much as you can. Try to find a roommate, downgrade. Like, I'm trying to refinance my car, give it back to them.

[00:07:41]It's to the point where I'm debating whether I even really want to be here anymore and that was part of the original plan when Trump came into office was to just get the [ __ ] out of dodge.

[00:07:48]Um and as I walk by my neighbors that act like they don't know each other, the idea of building community here just I don't even care anymore.

[00:07:55]But seriously, if you guys are not taking this seriously yet um because the Met Gala just happened or you're stuck in celebrity gossip like you were going to be the ones that get hit the hardest because you had no idea what to prep for.

[00:08:07]A global recession doesn't mean everyone stays at home. A global recession means everybody hurts.

[00:08:13]So while you may not be like, you know, uh well, maybe you will be. Well, uh while you may not get the worst of the worst, your quality of life is going to be impacted significantly. The worst part about it though is that the people at the top or the people that have more money than you, the worst thing that's going to happen to them is they may have to sell one of their extra homes or cars.

[00:08:34]For you, you may be at the plasma bank more [music] often than you should be.

[00:08:39]So as a mother, as a personal coach to people, like I please don't take this as a joke. Please don't sit around living life as business as usual so that one day you look up and you're like, what's happening?

[00:08:53]You have Yeah, the decisions you make right now, you will have to answer to your kids or grandkids later down the line. Why didn't you make the right decisions? Or thank you for the decisions that you made and being stoic in those decisions.

[00:09:06]For real. Don't take this lightly. Share this video out to somebody that might need to see it. Well, the economy is slowly starting to collapse on itself.

[00:09:16]If you haven't researched yet, you might want to check into all the businesses that are going out of business in 2026.

[00:09:23]There's, to name a few, Wendy's, Olive Garden, Michaels, TJ Maxx, Denny's, um there's there's all these stores, Dollar Trees, they're going out of business.

[00:09:38]And why?

[00:09:40]Because the economy has been crashing for months and months and months and months. These companies are losing millions and millions and millions of dollars. And what does that mean?

[00:09:53]The whole economy is just literally crumbling.

[00:09:57]People have no money.

[00:10:01]So, what does that mean?

[00:10:02]People aren't spending any money. So, all these companies are filing for bankruptcy to try to protect themselves because they're going broke. Their costs are higher than the amount of money that they bring in.

[00:10:14]So, be prepared to have less stores to shop in, less restaurants to eat in.

[00:10:22]I said this was going to happen. I knew this was going to happen.

[00:10:27]The whole thing is just starting to collapse inside of itself.

[00:10:32]This is bad.

[00:10:33]Oh, yeah. The brick-and-mortar economy >> is not the future.

[00:10:36]>> Businesses will close down from here on out throughout the years to come. Things will be delivered from a fulfillment center, if anything, to your house through drone. That and small business may grow online stores, but as far as brick-and-mortar, they're not making enough and their overhead is way too high. Brick-and-mortar is done. Stanley Black & Decker is closing a plant in Connecticut, laying off 300 employees. IKEA is closing stores. Francesca is closing.

[00:11:04]Saks Off Fifth, Neiman Marcus Last Call, Macy's is cutting 150 stores. Kroger is cutting stores. That's the grocery retailer also known as Smith's.

[00:11:18]7-Eleven is closing stores. REI is closing. Wendy's is closing stores.

[00:11:24]Pizza Hut is closing stores. Apple is closing select stores. Walgreens is closing select stores. CVS Pharmacy, Rite Aid, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, Dollar General, Big Lots, Best Buy, Bed Bath & Beyond, Party City, Foot Locker, Champs Sports, Kids Foot Locker, The Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, JCPenney, Nordstrom, Kohl's, Burlington, Ross Dress for Less, TJ Max, Marshalls, HomeGoods, GameStop, Office Depot {slash} OfficeMax, Staples, Starbucks, Subway, TGI Fridays, Red Lobsters, Denny's, IHOP, Buffalo Wild Wings, Chili's, Applebee's, and Olive Garden so far have announced store closures for 2026. Of course, this means thousands and thousands of people will be laid off. This will be less money in the economy. If you didn't know, consumer spending is down 14 straight months, and consumer consumer spending contributes 68% of the GDP, the spending. So, if 68% of this of the growth is bad, you know that it's going to be bad. My name's Christine. I have a master's degree in business. We are heading for a recession or even a depression. Please do the best that you can to get your finances in order. Do not spend money. We're headed towards a depression. We're already in a recession. Ooh, we just prophetic.

[00:12:59]That's all I was thinking as she was saying it. Merchants will be weeping.

[00:13:03]The people will not be buying from them no more. That's what's happening, ain't it? Uh-huh. They're crying. Nobody no longer buys their cargo. Consumer spending has been down for 14 straight months. Yo, let me know what y'all think about this video, family. I appreciate you. Peace to my Hebrew fam. Shalom.