El Draque's shared theory seems to make more sense now.
Any financial experts care to explain what would be the best way to profit from a predicted stock crash in the coming future. Maybe through put options?
So I'm going to give you the trading answer upfront and then explain why it's the best, then wrap up with how to create durable real wealth. I think the simplest solution is value investing. Buying companies and sectors that are cheap but essential (oil, gold, nickel, copper, coal, etc.). It's not easy, but it's much better than the alternatives. Value investing's natural stop loss (the entire position) is perfect for insane and risky environments. It's easily accessible to anyone who can start an IB account, the research and work can be outsourced and shared.
The problem with buying puts on stocks is that stocks price are not about fundamentals but about politics (and then what fundamentals force politically). We're at risk of both inflation (good for stocks, to a point), and deflation (very, VERY bad for stocks). This is because of money printing (inflation, everyone is talking about) and the amount of dollar denominated loans (see dollar milkshake theory on the "euro dollar", very deflationary). Without studying this seriously, the idea that you're going to time this is just very unlikely (and even then there's a litany of other issues that will hamper your idea creating you profit). For example, the Fed right now is TERRIFIED of deflation not inflation, despite the fact that everyone in the world is talking about inflation.
Yes, the economy is turbo screwed. There has been no growth since 2008, every dollar that stocks have gone up is due to government spending. That doesn't mean stocks go down. Stocks can crash up, and that's a plausible outcome (stocks go up, dollar crashes further, your buying power goes down, oh yeah and you owe taxes on your "profits").
The absolute best trade in the world is actually something called a "swaption" on bond interest rates (essentially going long volatility on bonds). But this isn't 2008, even with an ISDA (fancy trading account for those with $100m+) you apparently can't even get a bank to quote you a price.
The reality is, everyone actually knows whats up this time around. We're playing an ever increasingly fancy game of kick the can down the road where the layperson is footing the bill. And in this game, the definition of layperson is anyone who can't build a portfolio that handles stocks, bonds and real estate all going down at the same time.
Land + food security, guns + defense, community, value invested essential companies, precious metals. If you must stay in the US, perhaps a 30 year mortgage on land you can generate alternative cashflow with. Cryptos won't save you before the crash IMO (although they can pad your account until then if you have time to work at it). Ideal setup, you have these assets and almost no cash, then borrow against them as needed for your bills, spending and emergency savings etc..
Even with all this, don't kid yourself, the world is rapidly approaching a bad time and major shift in how things work. Real wealth and economies are built on productive people and while the world is doing everything it possibly can to destroy those of us that are productive, I believe productive people coming together can overcome this hurdle and build a better world despite everything.