Posts Tagged ‘economics’
Monday, July 12th, 2010
In is listener feedback Monday so I am back with another great round of your questions, comments and current event feed back. Today we have some cool questions on things like a first gun for that woman in your life, storing guns on a budget, property tax freedom, storing food, dehydrating veggies and more.
Tune in today as we discuss…
- Is a 22 a good first handgun for a new shooter, is it useful for self defense
- What is the best budget friendly way to store and protect long arms
- What is the big deal wit GMO food, one scientist says we are all nuts for even worrying about it
- Will North Dakota soon get rid of property taxes, it could happen
- What are the paint style cans I use for storing food, where do you get them
- What are the penalties for withdrawal from ROTH 401Ks and ROTH IRAs
- How good is High Mowing Organic Seed’s service, one listener says AWESOME
- When is it time to begin ignoring laws in favor of practical preparedness
- Any downside to “universal” rechargeable batteries
- What is the difference between inflation and supply and demand, one “expert” doesn’t have a clue
- How do you know when to buy, sell or refinance a house (an answer no economist will ever give you)
Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show.
You also now can call in questions or comments for the host at 866-65-THINK, (866-658-4465) please read the suggestions for calling in before you do for the best chance of getting your comments on the air.
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Today’s show notes are brief as I will let most of this show speak for itself. While I will talk about “politics” today I won’t tell you what to think or how to vote. Instead I will talk about the dark reality of America’s past and present, I will tell you some shocking facts about this nation, I will even admit that the views many have about things like the “New World Order” are grounded in a lot of fact in addition to a lot of fiction.
Today my hope is to tell you how we can fix America with the current system we have, why we can count on our fellow Americans and the common values I think we all share regardless of any political affiliation. In short I will tell you how we can fix America but I will ask you only to liberate yourself and trust that America will know what to do with a new found liberty that will be the result of individual action.
Note - There is a discount in today’s show for the Members Support Brigade. It is a really big one but you will have to listen to the show to get it. The discount expires on midnight of the 31st.
Resources for today’s show…
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Yesterday I made my second large purchase of the year, a 2005 F-350 Diesel Super Duty I got for 30% under its Kelly Blue Book Value, I paid cash. Earlier this year I bought a new RV (a Shamrock 21ss) I also paid cash. I almost feel guilty about this but it got me thinking, 8 years ago my wife and I sate down face in hands looking at over 25K in credit card debt, medical bills (which grew before they shrank) and more.
We thought “how did we let this happen”, we thought about just letting things keep going and paying a “little bit more” on a few debts. Our income was great, our house payment was low, it would all be okay, a meeting with a “financial liar” confirmed it wold be fine. The liar even suggested we take out some home equity since we had so much if we were worried about low cash reserves.
In my head the wisdom of my grandmother screamed out over the words of this clown who had the arrogance to claim he understood money. My wife and I began a journey, one many of you have followed as well. I have discussed he journey and the how and why behind it, yet until today I have never discussed the freedom that lies on the other side.
In January I walked away from a six figure salary to do TSP full time. It was a hard choice but we had paid all debt by that point and began saving money heavily. We jumped from stocks before the crash and had not taken the hit. Something totally unexpected occurred though, despite a massive reduction in my income, we actually seem to now have more money.
I have started to really understand why this is the case and a lot of your “post debt” emails took on a new meaning for me as of yesterday. So today while I will talk a bit about debt, I am going to talk far more about what completing the journey will mean. If you are going fight a difficult battle you need to realize what victory will mean.
Resources for today’s show…
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Please Comment with Your Debt Stories Today! – I want success stories, your stories about where you are on your journey and anything and everything in between. Note – If you are a spammer that wants to plug some debt help bullshit, don’t bother posting.
Friday, May 14th, 2010
We only occasionally dip into politics around here, time to time we focus on economics and that always by the very nature of out current state must include some political components as well. Some members of the audience want more and some want less and wish we would stick 100% to practical pepping action.
The reality is the two are one in the same! Make no mistake about it this is a revolution you and I are conducting together. Today we discuss the multi-planked revolution where “taking this country back” isn’t just about the next election or political topic “du jour”. No this revolution is about how we live, how we prepare, how we self educate and above all how we impact those around us simply by living as who and what we are, human with sovereign rights bestowed upon us by our creator.
Today I also introduce our new long awaited custom bumper music, as you might have guessed the title of the song is “The Revolution is You”. The song was written and performed by Gregg Yows of RevolutionRockAndRoll.com (I am actually a minor co writer as well) . The final track was mastered by Matthew McCabe at Finley Sound. Gregg and Matthew are both long time listeners to TSP which means this song is truly a creation of our community, I hope it inspires you to know the power you truly have, indeed YOU are the revolution.
I am also running a special on the Members Brigade that will run until Monday the 17th, you can get your first year of the MSB for only 35 dollars with the discount code “revolution”.
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
By the time our children are in high school today they should be getting what I consider to be a basic financial education. In fact our citizens in college today don’t get this education unless they specialize in economics or finance and even then it is slanted to the “Statist” or “Keynesian” model.
Join me today as we discuss the following…
- What is money?
- What is a backed currency?
- What is a “fiat currency”?
- Why does money exist?
- What is M0, M1, M2 and M3?
- What is inflation?
- What is debt?
- Can a currency also be a debt?
- How are U.S. Dollars created?
- What is fractional reserve?
- How do banks create additional money?
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Monday, April 19th, 2010
I am going to try to start making the feedback shows more engaging with a lot of different sources. So today we have your questions by email, your feedback by phone, some interesting news stories and even some audio off of Youtube on money creation to help answer one of your questions.
Join me today as we discuss…
- What about making your own solar panels
- Should a young grad buy land even if they are not ready to build
- How do you set priorities and “pull it all together”
- Exactly how is money created by “lending it into existence”
- CITI Pays back the loans to the government, what does it mean
- Are you contributing to “the systems” with credit cards if you pay your balance in full
- A simple additive to improve the life of your vehicle
- A Icelandic volcano disrupts Europe’s food chain
- Who feeds the world, industrial agriculture of peasant farmers
- How do you transport silver & gold long distances
- Window Farms – and idea who’s time has come
- Can you grow guavas in New Mexico
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
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17 Comments » Thursday, April 15th, 2010
I have grown weary of the term “carbon footprint”, it drives me nuts that ever TV show, article, online video or blog post about energy independence has to use the dreaded term. So I figured today we could talk about the useful reduction of a real footprint that is to large for most of us, the dreaded tax footprint.
Join me today as we discuss…
- What is a tax footprint – how do you calculate one
- What taxes do we pay other than income, social security and medicare
- What are some of the hidden taxes we pay with out even realizing it
- Following a tax payer for a day, how much taxation does he create
- Ways to reduce your tax foot print
- Take ever legal deduction, create deductions
- Run a small business (two edges to the sword)
- Install alternative energy
- Barter when ever you can
- Grow your own food
- Buy from local growers (pay cash or barter)
- Brew beer, make wine, grow tobacco
- Drive a primary vehicle that is highly fuel efficient
- Camp when you travel
- Make sure to file homestead exemptions
- Buy rural land as an investment with low property tax
- Fight your properties assessed value
- Reload ammunition
- Cast bullets
- Invest in metal with small quantity cash buys
- Convert cash into long term assets
- Understand the concept of “cash flows = tax grows”
- Ask two questions before you spend each dollar
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Okay I am back! Today I am going to try to work on the huge backlog of listener questions and feedback I now have. We have great questions today on things like dealing with heavy recoiling rifles, taxation, castor oil for storing rice and beans and more.
Join me today as we discuss…
- If there was no income tax how could government provide basic services like roads and schools
- How do you deal with heavy recoil from large caliber rifles especially from the bench
- Protecting rice and beans from insects with castor oil
- The government does something right with “sustainable agriculture”
- Avoiding contempt for your fellow American sheeple
- Obama gets a private army, the problem is a lot bigger than Obama!
- Are unpaid internships about to die off, what might be the next big brother step in that world
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Monday, March 15th, 2010
Well we are back from Arkansas where we had a great mini vacation. We spent 4 days hiking about 5-6 miles a day and even wore out Max, the survival podcast dog, which isn’t easy to do. So today we are back with your questions and commentary on articles and other things sent in by the audience.
Tune in today as we discuss…
- New MSB supporting vendor Honeyville Grains will be given 10% off to all MSB vendors
- Social Security now has to cash in Federal IOUs, what will that mean for us
- Lessons learned from fruit trees lost during a hurricane
- What is the right rifle action to start learning with and why
- Are 0% financing programs on cars legitimate
- Do travel trailers and and RVs make a good prep item
- Are GMO producers finally being held accountable for damaging the crops of other farmers
Resources for today’s show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Today we welcome Rob Gray of the American Open Currency Standard and the AG Trading Center in Farmers Branch Texas. Tune in today to learn about putting real value back into an honest currency standard and about Rob’s other projects.
By participating in the AOCS, you have immediate access to the thousands of participating merchants across the country, as well as the approved Mints that will craft your private currency. AOCS Merchants are enrolled to accept any AOCS-approved currency.
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
