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Episode-293- Economic Forecast 10-08-09

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Modern Survival| 6 Comments
Episode-293- Economic Forecast 10-08-09 [ 51:04 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

So today we are going to discuss my view of what we can expect from the economy in the next few years and what we can do to prepare for it.  I will tell you why I think 2010 is actually going to look pretty decent and on the other side why you shouldn’t take that much comfor in it.  Then next week we will take a day to compare my view to the view of many of the experts such as Jim Rodgers and Gerald Celente.

Tune in today to hear…

  • Why I think we are about to see a fake recovery followed by a bigger crash
  • The stimulus doesn’t kick in until 2010, how it will succeed and how it will fail
  • Unemployment is “bottoming” the truth and the lies about that statement
  • This coming bubble and collapse is planned, I will explain why there is no other option then this one
  • Credit cards can’t fix a debt problem and how that relates to our national deficit
  • How the impact of Health Care won’t be seen until late 2011 perhaps longer and the disaster it will create
  • The coming 1.5 Trillion Dollar tax increase from the  administration that promised not to do it
  • How high taxes reduce the amount of tax government collects and what it does to the economy
  • Why inflation looks like recovery at the beginning
  • Why you need to own at least some silver and or gold
  • Land is cheap, go make a low ball offer while you can
  • Store food, build your own grocery store at home
  • Spend smart don’t horde money, balance your assets
  • Place priority of spending on assets with long term value
  • Keep some cash, don’t believe the lies about putting all cash into gold right now
  • Debt is evil, always in good times and bad
  • Never be 100% invested in any item or investment type
  • Do not liquidate IRAs and 401ks modify their portfolios but leave the money in the vehicles
  • Above all never “freak out”, make smart and strategic spending and saving decision you do have time to act,  don’t panic and react to swiftly to concerns

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Episode-176- Money Equals Debt In Our National Economy

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Modern Survival| 2 Comments
Episode-176- Money Equals Debt In Our National Economy [ 35:05 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

OK so now down to earth prepping skills today instead with all the new people I felt we needed another show on the economy, more specifically how the money supply works and why every dollar is actually a certificate for debt.

This is important to understand because modern survivalism is about building a sustainable lifestyle.  Not “saving the planet” but building a life that you can sustain if times get tough or even if they don’t.  Debt is the number one thing that enslaves Americans today and the number one cause of divorce.  On a national scale money and debt are actually one in the same, ever dollar in your pocket is a certificate for debt.

This is the cause of “boom and bust” no matter which president we have.  It is why inflation must return and by understanding it you can structure your life to mitigate the risks to you and your family.

Tune in today to hear…

  • Why when people call our currency “monopoly money” they are right and what the game can teach us about the economy
  • Why this economic problem is possibly more dangerous to our children then to us
  • How money works in the US economy, it probably isn’t how you think it does
  • What the founders did to control the money supply and how far we have gone away from that
  • Why we every had a “gold standard” and the reason leaving it behind has created fake money
  • Why every dollar in your pocket isn’t money but a certificate for debt plus interest
  • Why running your household as a microcosm of the government enslaves so many Americans
  • Reconnecting to the wisdom you had back when your thought you were broke, rather then today when you really are broke and simply have more stuff
  • Why if no one owed anyone money in the US, there would be no money
  • Where those trillions of dollars for stimulus and bailouts actually come from
  • Why the system is the problem no matter who is president
  • Why we are constantly tricked by the illusion of prosperity
  • Why we are in for bigger falls, simply we are going higher each time before we fall
  • Falling feels like flying until you HIT THE GROUND

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Episode-156- Recovery Equals Inflation

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Modern Survival| 6 Comments
Episode-156- Economic Recovery Equals Inflation [ 44:44 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Right now everyone is wondering when the economy is going to recover.  They are waiting for it as a tribesman awaits rains coming to the desert.  Oh won’t it be a glorious day when the Dow reverses course and begins a sustained climb, the banks open the mortgage food gates and “good Americans” do their patriotic duty and spend money?

Hold on, my problem with this is in reality this is the recovery!  The nation turned into a bunch of credit, debt and spending addicts.  What you see now is the nation in rehab!  300 million addicts coming off the spending spree and going through detox!

It won’t last!  The Federal Reserve and their drug cartel (banks, credit card companies and financing organizations) might not be willing to kill their clients with an overdose, yet they can’t allow them to go strait either.

Soon the peer pressure and dealer pressure will start up again.  Come on honey the Jones family just got a new car, the Smiths at work just got a new house and their are buyers for our house now.  Besides I just got a raise and we have saved up a lot of money.  Let’s enjoy life, you can’t take it with you!

The TV and Radio and the Dancing Girls at Weather.com will advertise “low mortgages that anyone can qualify for”.  The good times will return!  With them, inflation like we have never seen before.  When it happens don’t forget the pain of today, don’t go back to being an addict.  “Stay the course”, the one your grandparents set, value your money, save for a rainy day and buy what you need, not what you covet.

Today’s show discusses these concepts, explains the fallacy of a decline in the M3 Money Supply and will help you deal with a recovery that will actually be a relapse of the addiction and lead to a bigger crash then we just went through.

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Episode-132- The 800 Billion Dollar Economic Stimulus Only Stimulates Big Government

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Modern Survival| 17 Comments
Episode-132- The 800 Billion Dollar Economic Stimulus Only Stimulates Big Government [ 46:19 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

One of today’s biggest stories the the 800 Billion Dollar Economic Stimulus championed by the Democrats in Congress and Barak Obama.  Yet what does this bloated bill stimulate?

Tune in today to hear…

  • The code word for today’s Listener Apprecation Contest
  • David Crawford’s Novel “Lights Out” to be made into an Audio Book – More Info
  • Understanding the Stimulus is IN ADDITION TO the budge it is not the government budge for 2009
  • Just Some of the Items in this superposed “stimulus”
    • Approximately $4.5 Billion for Federal management/oversight of the funds
    • $650 Million for the Digital-To-Analog Converter Box Program
    • $2.4 Billion to demonstrate ‘carbon capture’ and sequestration technologies
    • $79 Billion for State Fiscal Stabilization – The ‘States Bailout’ I said was coming
    • $5.2 Billion for a Community Planning and Development Fund (That would be for ACORN)
    • $10 Million for Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership Opportunity Program
    • $900 Million for Social Security Administration expenses
    • And it just gets worse

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Episode-125- Mental Simulations of Disaster Scenarios

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Modern Survival| Comments Off
Episode-125- Mental Simulations of Disaster Scenarios [ 43:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today we take a look at why we prep, what we prep for and the most important question any person evaluating current theats can ask themselves.

Tune in today to hear…

  • The big question is “what if”, and it unlocks the game plan for survival
  • Using the pandemic disease threat to unlock the fact that the cause is less important then the threat itself
  • Bridging the gap between the tin foil hat world and the more practical survivalists, why is less important that the fact that the results of potential disasters are the same
  • Taking action is only valid if the action is appropriate, asking what if makes you run a scenario and makes you see where your weak and what you would do if a plan fails
  • Why prepping for various disasters is always 90% the same actions no matter what the threat is
  • Why slow and steady preps make a difference and getting paranoid results is failure
  • Could there be a global war, would it result in rationing, curfews, etc. it has before
  • A 12 year old asks, could a war come here
  • Why now is the time to get serious and stay level headed

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Episode-79 The Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Time Bomb

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Modern Survival| 5 Comments
Episode-79 The Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Time Bomb [ 42:03 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

How in the world can we have a quadrillion dollar problem when there isn’t anywhere near a quadrillion dollars in the world?  What the hell is a derivative and why should the average person care?  This may not be the most practical action podcast we do and it may be a bit hard to understand some of the points but I felt that I needed to discuss this with my listeners because it is in the words of Warren Buffet a “financial weapon of mass distruction” and it may go off any day!  Global thermal financial war!

Tune in today to hear…

  • Exactly what a derivative is
  • Why derivatives are the largest black market in the world today
  • How at one time derivatives were almost outlawed as illegal gambling
  • The ponzi scheme that may fall apart and tank the global economy very soon
  • The very few real options we have to dismantle this weapon and why it might be to late anyway
  • The real reason the Fed saved AIG and Freddie and Fannie
  • Why foreign investors are running to the dollar even though it is screwed
  • Why banks stopped loaning money to each other, it has little to do with sub prime mortgages
  • The bull shit story from the government about the mortgage market – it could be fully paid off with 200 billion – so why 700 billion in the bail out.
  • The continued pumping in of money by the Fed – 540 Billion Yesterday alone

Resources for today’s show

Videos for Todays Show From YouTube (watch these after my show)

The first one emphasizes a bit to much on the mortgage market but he gets most of it right!

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Episode-71- Watch out for combined threats

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Modern Survival| 7 Comments
Episode-71- Watch out for combined threats [ 38:02 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

There has been a lot of focus on the bail out, economic disaster and falling numbers on Wall Street lately.  We even covered much of it here.  What is being missed however, is the real danger that while in this weakened state another aggravating circumstance may force us into a downward spiral.  Tune in today to hear,

  • An actual letter mailed to Tarrant County Doctor’s Offices from the Tarrant County Medical Society
  • Some of the shocking questions and their multiple choice answers in the survey that came with the letter
  • Why now is the time to ratchet up your preps a bit, keep your head but stock pile at least a month fast if you have not done so
  • What we should take away from “when it rains it pours”
  • How a Pandemic would make the market crash and economic trouble worse
  • How a harsh winter could be a bigger problem then normal this time around
  • Why we should continue to expect to see food prices climb
  • How a food shortage or harsh weather may impact the economy more then normal while it is weak
  • How you should not be taking unnecessary risks tomorrow because of lack of planning today
  • The lesson of how tiny Texas snow storms clear supermarket shelves and what it means in a real problem
  • Don’t over think storage methods, food with long shelf life is easy to store
  • The need to review your bug out plan and routes and rendezvous points with family now
  • Considering a hurricane disaster if another disaster hit on top it and what it teaches us

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Episode-63- How the 700 Billion Dollar Bail Out Will Happen

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Modern Survival| 15 Comments
Episode-63- How the 700 Billion Dollar Bail Out Will Happen [ 27:21 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today’s I am going to let you know we can expect to see happen regarding the bail out (Bush now calls a “Rescue Plan”) in the next few days.  Get ready for a great puppet show and to watch the public go from opposing the plan to begging for it by the time the week end is over.

Tune in today to hear,

  • Exactly what is the 700 Billion Dollar Bail Out really all about
  • How we will be “sold” on the 700 Billion Dollar Bail Out Plan
  • What the bail out will do to the market in the short term
  • Why the bail out plan is already written and agreed upon and what we are watching is nothing but a show
  • Exactly what does the 700 Billion Dollar Bail Out plan mean
  • How the stock market will be most likely to respond
  • How our nation is going into full on Fascism with this plan and no one is talking about it
  • Why you should call your congress critter even though he won’t change his vote based on what you say
  • How to make this years Christmas special and not blow money
  • Blowing money is not your patriotic duty
  • How Washington Mutual was just sold back door to JP Morgan for fractional pennies on the dollar
  • How to double your money with “Cowboy Logic”

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Episode-54- Hurricane Ike – Merrill Lynch – Lehman Brothers – Lessons Learned?

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Modern Survival| 11 Comments
Episode-54- Hurricane Ike - Merrill Lynch - Lehman Brothers - Lessons Learned? [ 29:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This was one of the most destructive “storm filled” weekends in history. First the true storm of a massive category two hurricane in the form of Ike, which has left Galveston Texas in ruins. The second storm has been largely over shadowed by Ike and it is the financial storm that say Bank of America swallow up Merrill Lynch and left Lehman Brothers in the darkness of bankruptcy.

Tune in today to hear…

  • Why I have little sympathy for those that ignored evacuation orders
  • More on the story of “The Grasshopper and the Ant” winter isn’t always a season
  • It is easy to be hard on those who were not ready, but, are you ready
  • Why announcements like Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch always come on a Sunday
  • The effect of Monday Amnesia by weeks end – “watch the shinny celebrities and just relax”
  • Why this isn’t the big one and more grief is yet to come
  • How American’s are paying attention only to the “temperature of their pools” and don’t see the underlying cancer that these new financial storms represent
  • Don’t be fooled, this has all happened before and unless we crack the whip it will all continue to happen again, and again, and again…..
  • First get mad, you can’t do anything unless you get mad first
  • Why these signs are screaming “prepare for disaster” at a deaf population
  • The cascading effect when big companies fail and consolidate on small and mid size businesses
  • Why the promise of a better 2009 is a lie and a big one at that
  • How the money for “bail outs” and “buy outs” is running out and what that means for you
  • A third institution that most likely won’t survive until mid October

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Episode-48- Why Oil Isn’t “Down” and Why it Will Keep Going Up

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Modern Survival| 8 Comments
Episode-48- Why Oil Isn't "Down" and Why it Will Keep Going Up [ 38:03 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today we discuss the so called “drop in oil prices to 108 dollars a barrel”, why it isn’t a real drop and why prices will continue to rise.  Tune in today and hear

  • The first five winners of our listener appreciation contest
  • My warning for South Florida and Hurricane Ike
  • The effects on oil no one is talking about
  • Why the drop isn’t a drop and Wall Street knows it
  • The reality of the “movement” of oil prices between 2005 and 2008
  • How small adjustments by U.S. consumers have major impacts on oil prices
  • What “oil speculation” really is an its’ minimal impact
  • The China effect no one is talking about and why they are not buying much oil for now
  • The reality of capacity and demand
  • The effect of “profit movement” between exploration, refinement and retail
  • The decline of the Cantarell oil field and others
  • The effect of the Cantarell decline on Mexico and how it will impact us
  • The myth that we “buy all our imported oil from the Arabs”
  • Why you shouldn’t start celebrating the new “low gas prices”
  • The hidden effects and manipulation of “price point psychology”
  • Why our available imported oil has dropped by 1.2 million barrels a day and is getting worse

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