A slight digression from the 90 day plan series today. Over the weekend something major happened and I wanted to touch on it a bit. As you may have heard, Cyprus decided to arbitrarily confiscate 10% of all money in all of their banks. They have announced a bank holiday, initially just for Monday, but… Continue Reading
How to prepare your family to survive and thrive in todays uncertain world
Category Archives: Financial Preparedness
Income Redundancy and the Status Quo
Everyone with a preparedness mindset understands that it’s important to have backups for systems of support. We store food for a variety of reasons, but one major one is as a hedge against disruption in the food supply. Or take water for example. We store water, and we store the means to purify even more… Continue Reading
Woah! Silver is Crashing!
Silver is doing something interesting over the last couple days, and I thought I’d comment on it. For those of you familiar with technical chart analysis terms, it’s toying with major support around $26.50/oz. In non technical terms, if silver goes below $26.50, there is a good likelyhood that it will continue to go down.… Continue Reading
The Dominoes Begin To Fall…
So I’ve talked many times before about the ramifications of the choices that our government and financiers are making. We’re seeing some of those consequences begin to play out more rapidly in Europe. Plainly put, they’re screwed. Government officials throughout Europe are talking openly to the press about forcing Greece out of the EU and… Continue Reading
Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down…
It continues to baffle me to no end that people just can’t see reality for what it is. A prime example of this is the recent election in France. The French people didn’t like what they were hearing from their government so they replaced them with someone who says they’re going to hire more government… Continue Reading
How To Find Junk Silver On The Cheap
I’ve heard a number of interesting methods lately for finding junk silver for face cost as opposed to the spot price of silver. At $30/oz, $1 face of junk silver is worth about $21. So if you managed to find that $1 face value for $1, you’re ahead $20. Not bad. One of the easiest… Continue Reading
Preparing For The Next Bank Run
This morning as you’re walking out the door heading to work you decide to swing by the ATM on your way to work. It’s been a long weekend and you haven’t been watching the news like you usually do. You get to the bank and hit up the drive through ATM. Except when you reach… Continue Reading
Alternative Currency Standards
I don’t know about you, but when I hear the words ‘Alternative Currency’ I think about monopoly money. After all, we all know that currency comes from the government and is good for ‘all debts, public and private’ … right? Not so fast… If you have read some of my other articles on what money… Continue Reading
Three Ways To Protect Yourself Against Inflation
A major topic right now is inflation. Whether you believe that we’re going to have a hyperinflationary collapse or simply a period of higher inflation, you need to know what to do about it. This is another one of those insurance policies I talk about. Hedging is a well-known financial concept that is basically taking… Continue Reading
Musings On Resiliant Income Streams
After my grandfather died last year, I ended up thinking quite a bit about the future of my family. I had the usual thoughts of mortality but when it got down to brass tacks I accepted something that I’d known all along. The modern model of life is broken in so many ways. We live… Continue Reading
