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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

Resources for today’s show…

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Episode-136- The Trillion Dollar Stimulus and Storing Food

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Modern Survival| 3 Comments
Episode-136- The Trillion Dollar Stimilus and Storing Food [ 38:34 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today I was simply going to talk about storing food and how to build up a good storage program.  Yet today some things have popped up that have made me need to also discuss some “slight of hand” relating to the new Trillion (yes trillion) Dollar Stimulus Package.

Tune in Today to Hear…

On the Stimulus and a “New Law”

  • Nancy P states 500 million a month to loose jobs a month in a country with only 300 million people in total, what does this tell us
  • There is a “new” law capping the compensation of any executive running a company taking “bail out money”, didn’t we do that already?  – YES WE DID!
  • How writing a law is like creating a predator and must be looked at that way
  • How the new law about executive pay has no fangs or claws and what that tells us about the motivation behind it
  • Glenn Beck’s New Program – “We Surround Them” and how you can be involved

On Storing Food

  • Storm kits in Arkansas and Kentucky MIGHT contain samonela infected penut butter!  This is why you must store your own emergency food
  • Building a basis with rice, beans and pasta and adding variety to that
  • The place for MREs and Mountain House and their limitations
  • Adding canned meat as a component
  • Producing your own food with gardens and permaculture
  • Learning methods of preservation
  • Dealing with local sources of food now before you need them
  • Adding fishing, hunting and foraging to the mix
  • The addition of small live stock such as rabbits, chickens or ducks

Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-105- Get Ready a Cold Winter is Comming

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Modern Survival| 5 Comments
Episode-105- Get Ready a Cold Winter is Comming [ 36:33 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Building a bit on yesterdays show I figured I would continue to evaluate some to the comming threats and tie it to some of the actions every American family should be taking right now.

Tune in today to hear…

  • Please vote for our Slogan for the Next Stickers and Our Coming T-Shirts (vote here)
  • How to win a Tactical Christmas Stocking or Single Point Sling from SOE Tactical Gear
  • How to win a in car/truck gun safe from Center of Mass
  • Updates about the new look to the site, we are working on bugs (Use FireFox IE sucks)
  • Why it matters that 1.5 million people lost jobs this year even if you didn’t
  • What you should NEVER tell you children as you scale back and make adjustments
  • Why now is the time to increase your preps and plan for hard times
  • Why you should budget for layoffs, unemployment wages, etc, now not tomorrow
  • When you grow up poor and don’t know you are poor, you really a never poor
  • Why the bigger the company you work for the bigger your risk is
  • The complete break down isn’t necessary for the shit to hit the fan for you personally
  • Using your preps in hard times is OK, that is why you have them
  • Don’t stop paying down debt
  • No you don’t have to move to Tinbucktu to have a real homestead or Bug Out Location
  • If you fear the roving hordes, please discuss it in the Tin Foil Hat Brigade
  • Remember above all, what you do matters, nothing is more important.

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Episode-12- What is the M3 Money Supply and What Does it Mean to You?

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Modern Survival| 3 Comments
What is the M3 Money Supply and What Does it Mean to You? [ 33:22 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

So just what is the M3 Money Supply? It is the value of all U.S. Dollars in Circulation. The M Factors of US currency are broken down as follows,

  • M0: M0 (M-zero) is the most liquid measure of the money supply. It only includes cash or assets that could quickly be converted into currency. This measure is known as narrow money because it is the smallest measure of the money supply.
  • M1: M1 is M0 + checking accounts. This is used as a measurement for economists trying to quantify the amount of money in circulation.
  • M2: M2 is M1 + small time deposits (less than $100,000), savings deposits, and non-institutional money-market funds.
  • M3: M3 is M2 + all large scale deposits (over $100,000), institutional money-market funds, short-term repurchase agreements, along with other larger liquid assets. The broadest measure of money; it is used by economists to estimate the entire supply of money within an economy.

Now it just so happens that the Federal Reserve stopped publishing the U.S. M3 numbers back in 2006, to, “save money and because the M3 number doesn’t really tell you anything that the M2 number doesn’t.”

I am sorry but this is a huge cop out.

  1. You can bet that the Fed knows the M3 number, publishing it is releasing a number, not much can be saved by not publishing it, the work to calculate the M3 Supply is still being done.
  2. Large scale deposits (over $100,000) and institutional money-market funds are exactly where money pumped into the system by the Federal Reserve actually go! Not publishing this number has freed the Fed to pump in money at will and keep the average person ignorant to what is going on.

Listen to this edition of The Survival Podcast and learn

  1. How pumping in money to our economy is like splitting a stock with out giving new shares to those who own it. Effectively cutting the value of the dollar by 32% in the last 27 months that M3 has not been published.
  2. How the consumer price index has been replaced with “core inflation” so that our current inflation rates ignore two of your biggest expenses, ENERGY and FOOD!
  3. How the Fed’s Solution to loan and print even more money is sending us on a road to disaster most people can’t even fathom.
  4. Why the cost of everything that people need to survive and work in the U.S. is going up but we are being told that inflation is “flat”.

In short the rate of inflation is ignoring the decline of the dollar, the increase in the cost of food and the increase in the cost of gas and other energy products to falsely and temporally prop up the declining U.S. and Global Economies.

Here are some of the resources I used for data for this podcast

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