Well the "throwing their money in the streets" is in the end of the Daniel 11:42-43 8th King (King North/ Dan11:30-45) monetary and financial globalization cycle that even guys like David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger and Ron Paul say is a multi-year process. It is also a monetary devaluation process. Ron Paul of course does not advocate supra-national multi-national globalization of core financial power, but that is exactly what Rockefeller and Daniel 11:42-43 is saying.
Meaning the "it can end any day now brothers!" attitude is deceptive. It can BEGIN any day now, and it will go on for a number of years, and the only solution is first 8th King globalization of a finance and monetary system (Dan11:42-43 cycle), possibly accelerated by world war/terror/natural disasters, etc, and that is by no means a thing to complete "any day now" - and it is right in the prophecies Bethel is subverting as UN NGO UN allies "in the temple".
So you may try to prepare your wife a little bit for reality of what must eventually befall the national powers aided by enormous sovereign debts that set-up and aid the Daniel 11:42-43 financial globalization process. Bethel is setting up JWs for a fall, because that period to come is not "the end", it goes on for years, it results in a world recovery to aid 4th UN world government placement (Dan11:44-45), as it eventually leads to the world recovery of 1Thess5:1-3 as the world "peace and security" statements of that 8th King world government, like a decade from now, as the parallel Daniel 8:25 "freedom from care".
We have to sort of understand, the Bethel condition is far worse then it even appears, and in it's apostate form, it is misleading JWs and others with delusional thinking of a premature end, that will NOT arrive as JWs are expecting. Bethel's end will arrive as divine judgment (Dan8:13-14 as 1Pet4:17), long before the actual "end of the world" of the rival 4th UN centered world government placement like ten years down the road from Bethel's initial plunge.
And this is prophecy, not conspiracy, when one knows the 8th King is King North gloablization from Daniel 11:30-45. Another fact Bethel is subverting with the failed USSR illusion. (Dan11:36). It is also common knowledge on the globalization process and it's projected duration, and no way can an "Armageddon" come until AFTER an 8th King world government completes, and that takes years. (Dan12:11, Dan11:45, Dan8:25 are all the 4th UN placement identical climax).
And thus it is not an unsurvivable catastrophe. Yes it will be tribulatory, but knowing it is not "the end" is an advantage. Knowing it will recover into world government as foretold is also an advantage. JWs thinking it is the terminal cycle of Daniel 11:44-45 prematurely, will be like chickens with their heads cut off, because it is Daniel 11:42-43 that is actually activating next, and that takes some years to culminate. And that realistic view of coming reality is far better than the current Bethel brainwash.
Bethel is way off course and it must be as purposeful and covert as the UN NGO, and in that they are not telling JWs of the true extended duration of the actual globalization process (Rev17:11-17; Rev16:13-16) that MUST precede an actual international scale world government as an actual 8th King, who is actually a "king" of the world by that culmination over a final cycle, all foretold, and currently covered up by Bethel as known UN allies.