{"id":26829,"date":"2017-10-14T08:55:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T13:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26829"},"modified":"2017-10-14T08:55:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T13:55:30","slug":"puerto-rico-without-electricity-wifi-atms-shows-importance-of-cash-gold-and-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26829","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico Without Electricity, Wifi, ATMs Shows Importance of Cash, Gold and Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Puerto Rico Without Electricity, Wifi, ATMs Shows Importance of Cash, Gold and Silver<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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\u2013 Puerto Rico without electricity, wifi, ATMs shows importance of cash, gold and silver<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2013 Most of Puerto Rico remains in the dark and without power three weeks after storm
\n\u2013\u00a0With widespread power failures, Puerto Rico remains cash only with retailers only accepting cash and few consumer having cash<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Shortages of food, fuel and medicine with infrastructure repairs delayed<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Power could be \u2018out for months\u2019 as 85% of people remain off the grid<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Around 75% of ATMs disconnected<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Electronic forms of payment including bitcoin have been rendered non viable<\/strong>
\n\u2013\u00a0Puerto Rico\u2019s accidental \u2018cashless society\u2019 shows risks of cashless society and importance of\u00a0holding cash, gold and silver out of the financial and digital systems<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aerial photo of flooding\u00a0in Puerto Rico. Washington Post<\/strong><\/p>\n

Puerto Rico has been destroyed by two savage hurricanes which have plunged the island into darkness and despair. The landscape of ruined homes and entire towns resembles Hiroshima after the man made disaster of a nuclear\u00a0 bomb being dropped on the city.<\/p>\n

More than three weeks since Hurricane Maria hit the island, 3.7 million American citizens are on the precipice of a humanitarian disaster.\u00a0\u00a0The majority of these people\u00a0are desperate for food, water, electricity and shelter. They are desperate for cash that will allow them to secure these basic necessities.<\/p>\n

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Over 84% of the island remains without power and 37% of people are without access to water. Without power, much of the population is does not have electricity to charge their phones and iphones. Very few have wifi and this is severely impacting their ability to communicate and conduct their lives.<\/p>\n

Inevitably, the future of Puerto Rico now lies in the wrangling hands of government and financial organisations, all of which seem to be pointing the finger of blame at one another.<\/p>\n

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Puerto Rico Without Electricity, Wifi, ATMs Shows Importance of Cash, Gold and Silver \u2013 Puerto Rico without electricity, wifi, ATMs shows importance of cash, gold and silver \u2013 Most of Puerto Rico remains in the dark and without power three weeks after storm \u2013\u00a0With widespread power failures, Puerto Rico remains cash only with retailers only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[1035,5222,8689,1575,647,3824],"class_list":["post-26829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-survival-2","tag-cash","tag-electrical-grid","tag-goldcore-com","tag-power-loss","tag-precious-metals","tag-puerto-rico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26830,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26829\/revisions\/26830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}