The economy feels unstoppable, until it isn’t. Booms make people forget what comes next, but history shows the pattern is always the same. When the cracks start to show, those who planned ahead sleep fine. Those who didn’t? Not so much.

A report by the Federal Reserve found that 63% of Americans wouldn’t be able to handle a $400 emergency without borrowing money. That’s not just a statistic, it’s proof that most people are one unexpected bill away from financial trouble.

Nobody has said it yet, but the new tariffs has turned into a TEOTWAWKI event. Not the kind of “end of the world we knew” event that we all expected, but still one nevertheless… The current changes in the ways we do things are so severe, that many of these are likely to end up becoming a permanent part of our society.

So how can you and I prepare ourselves for that coming depression? There are actually many things that we can do, but the first of them is to restructure our finances. Specifically, get rid of, or at least cut down on unnecessary expenses, so that we are ready when the depression hits.

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