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I'd be way more worried about food, water, and ammo than I would money.
Guns gold and bitcoin
Do you mean plummet in value? Depends what’s happening to other currencies but the world economy would enter a legitimate crisis potentially collapsing.
Investments would go to zero. Technically you’d still
Own the shares but honestly the world would be in such chaos your priority should be stocking up on essentials and defending your property from the inevitable collapse of society.
Surely if the $ collapsed then tangible goods would be worth $1 billion?
Rising Star
If you mean collapse relative to other currencies (and not like go to $0 but a reasonable fall), then that would make foreign made items more expensive and US made items cheap outside the US. Commodities sold globally like oil would get more expensive to buy in dollars. However there’s so much international investment in the US that the impact isn’t that simple. It would likely result in high inflation which means you wouldn’t want to be hold US$ bonds as those will loose value. US companies that sell a lot of goods overseas would likely do well. To protect assets you could invest in non US companies or companies that sell US commodities like oil companies, or you could buy gold. Some people might say that cryptocurrency is a hedge for this but I’m not sure how it would respond.
You’re probably dead or going to be dead soon. If the dollar truly collapses that means something more than some debt and a few bad economic years happened. There would have to be massive geopolitical black swan event. Russia goes full nuclear over Ukraine. China goes full nuclear over Taiwan. Civil war. It’s actually difficult to create an event of the magnitude needed without it being ridiculous.