The very short answer is, you are watching the cold hard death of the globalist, rothschild, rockefeller petro-dollar system.
The transition to a new system will be rocky and hard but that is the price that has to be paid to remove power from the NWO.
I don't know exactly what it will become but I know that the global fiat currency pyramid scheme is about to crash. So, convert that paper into some form of hard assets. * This is not financial advice.