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Should I Budget for the End Times?

A personal finance columnist takes up a reader's question on whether to budget for catastrophic scenarios like societal collapse, weighing doomsday anxieties against everyday money planning. The answer resonates with a wider mood of financial unease, in which ordinary savers joke about, and genuinely wonder, how to prepare for disasters without letting fear wreck their present finances.

Why now: Widespread anxiety about economic and political instability is driving interest in whether disaster preparedness belongs in personal budgets.

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