There are those who call me an alarmist or a conspiracy theorist, blah, blah, but I think better to be safe than sorry and you can see our little world falling apart here in the USA. check this out and do what you can.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge2J2lNusJs Buy some food such as beans and rice, that keep well, while you have money...... After all, if all these economists are wrong, we can still eat it and not waste.