Thanks for the link, I check the Casey research website regularly but missed this one.
Very gloomy indeed but very well argued. Bottom line is that the crisis was caused by too much debt and too much spending. Today we have even more debt, growing even more rapidly, and austerity programs that result in higher, not lower, spending. Where I'm not sure I agree is on the inevitable. I think that things can still be turned around with a lot of pain, but the medicine needed is politically unpalatable; maybe he believes that what is needed will never be implemented voluntarily.
Personally I am increasing the amount of silver and gold I store physically, but I have also been toying with the idea of stockpiling cheap vodka and whiskey, by bringing some back anytime I go abroad. I'm not a fan of guns, but I am warming to the idea of owning one should things deteriorate further. Very uncertain times ahead, time to pay more attention to official denials.