As I told you last week, the Federal Reserve is already planning to unleash an economic “nuclear option” on the U.S. markets… a Negative Interest Rate Policy (NIRP).

The negative reception NIRP is getting from a lot of economists, analysts, and ordinary Americans doesn’t diminish the likelihood the Fed will resort to this disastrous policy if it sees an emergency on the horizon.

It doesn’t matter that the Fed’s ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) and quantitative easing (QE) experiments inflated the stock market, undermined economic growth as corporations used ZIRP to buy back shares instead of investing in plants, equipment, and labor, juiced-up banks’ balance sheets so they could pay dividends to pump up their shares, and forced other central banks to follow its insane policies.

That’s what the Keynesian Frankenstein that we call the Fed does to create emergencies.

And, as sure as the next emergency’s coming, so is NIRP.

But don’t believe for a second NIRP’s going to save us. It’s not. It’s going to hurt – a lot.

There are only a few ways to protect yourself from the NIRP monster, so listen up…

The Next Crisis Will Trigger NIRP

First of all, there is an emergency coming. We know that because the Fed and other central banksters keep engineering them, then trying to fix them by hosing deflated asset bubbles with more easy money fuel to leverage them back up again.

The next emergency might be triggered by a cascade of energy company defaults, a major oil company collapse, regime change in a “friendly” oil-producing country if an anit-Western radical group assumes power, the insolvency of a mega bank, a debt payment moratorium or a default by a sovereign borrower, the Chinese economy crashing, any major stock market around the world spiraling out of control, or uncontrollable currency devaluations.

There’s no shortage of potential emergencies.