Note how they always profit from the crisis. Taking note of the degree they control the economy of the global hegemon it’s only logical to assume that they can manage the crisis timeline somewhat to fire it off when they are more or less ready.

Financial elites tend to work like that.

Nooo! I wanted them to go down with us!

It’s easy to accurately say a crisis is coming; the impossible part is determining when exactly it will hit. No one can do that.