Much of the geopolitics and macroeconomics these days revolves around China. The collapse of the Chinese real estate market was a foretaste of what is to come if China's population projections are even halfway accurate. China will lose hundreds of millions of its population in the coming decades, which would further strengthen deflationary forces and put massive pressure on the current fiat money system.

This needs underlying inflation to roll the credit volume into the future and it continually requires more collateral to grow credit, but must not get out of hand to prevent hyperinflation from destroying the currency - the art of fiat....

Perhaps the deflationary shock that is so firming up, which has its roots in China, is the impetus that will cause the entire fiat credit money system to collapse like a house of cards. Then we enter the deflationary world that technological progress and open markets in free competition allows us to enter.