Tag Archives: federal reserve

Episode-334- Listener Feedback and Emails for 12-10-09

I am once again in the home studio today and decided to go into some of your more detailed emails that simply can’t be read on the road.   Today we discuss economics, politics, debt, generators, changes people are making in their lives and more.

Tune in to hear…

  • Tips on storing medications and antibiotics from a pharmacist
  • How to choose the right generator for your home
  • One of my “hate mail” emails I get often (for the ironic humor and to let opposing views be heard)
  • What is the Appleseed Project and why you should get involved
  • Thoughts on fire in high rise office buildings
  • The move to control CO2 emissions most people missed while focused on Denmark
  • Why I actually don’t “dislike Alex Jones” and where we agree more then disagree
  • The story of a family that took back their freedom and how TSP helped them
  • Thoughts on why soldiers do what they do when they finally come home
  • How the finances of the UK and the US overlap
  • How the Federal Reserve is as much a part of Britten as the U.S.
  • Why most people are actually libertarians and just don’t know it
  • Why the government wants us divided and how they keep us that way
  • What you can do to create your own liberty that is more powerful then any political action

Resources for today’s show…

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Episode-304- Audience Questions 10-27-09

After being preempted by the weather yesterday we are doing today’s show on listener questions.  Tune in today as we answer questions about surplus firearms, buying land, keeping and investing in silver, potential bank runs, alcohol as a gas and more.

Today I also tell you about an article I read on Lew Rockwell about coming food shortages and why food producing land will be one of the most valuable commodities in the coming future. The article is aptly titled “Food Will Never Be So Cheap Again“.

Resources for today’s show…

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Episode-219- Audience Questions for 6-12-09

Today on the Survival Podcast we discuss listener questions about subjects like, economy, federal reserve, guns, bob, economics, business, solar transportation methods and more.

I would like to continue doing this type of show often so if you want to have a question answered send me an email to jack@thesurvivalpodcast.com with the subject line “question for Jack”

Tune in to hear me answer these questions today…

  • If the Federal Reserve sucks so bad how was the concept sold to the public?
  • Should you store “extra guns” in places other then your safe/cabinet?
  • What are some methods of combating mosquitoes?
  • Advice for a sharpening stone in your BOB?
  • What’s up with the rising cost of gas cans?
  • What should you think about in setting up a business or side business?
  • What would I personally do for income if the shit really hit the fan?
  • Can you totally reduce dependence on gasoline with a normal 5 mile range of travel with kids?
  • Is it a good idea to store real long term storage foods (20-30 years)?

Resources for Today’s Show

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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.

Episode-218- The Federal Reserves Shell Game

Today’s we take a look at what we can learn from primitative societies that used shells as a form of currency.  Today’s show notes are brief due to massive delays in my morning commute cause by flooding, survival podcasting indeed.

Episode-64- Wrap Up On Questions about the 700 Billion Dollar Bail Out

I was all prepared to go back to solid “preparations” topics but questions have continued to flow in about the 700 Billion Dollar Bail Out and what it will mean, how it will work and where the money will come from.  Tune in today to hear…

  • Where will the 700 billion come from
  • How much will it cost tax payers
  • Who will benefit most from this expenditure
  • How Secretary Paulson has committed treason by sitting on this for over a year
  • How printing this money will cost you a 13% drop in the value of your money
  • Why the stock market did not drop on Friday but why it will today
  • How the deal will come today but it hasn’t really changed much over the weekend
  • Who will really profit from this deal – it’s not who you think
  • How pledging any profit to our National Debt does nothing for us
  • Who will decide where the money will go
  • Which banks will get the money
  • How the big banks will use this go gobble up the little ones
  • How the government will use this eventual wind fall to increase the size and power of government
  • How class warfare is being used inside this bail out in plain site but no one sees it
  • Why “just giving the money to the people” won’t work
  • How the 700 billion is simply not enough to fix the problem
  • How rich people are living in a world of counterfeit libertarianism only for themselves
  • How the responsible person is going to get raped by this deal
  • The real end game here, more money for the government and profit for the banks that are not failing

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Episode-61- Questions from the Audience on the 700 Billion Dollar Bail Out

I have been getting a lot of questions about the new 700 Billion Dollar bail out so I took today’s show to answer these questions and comment on them.  Turn in today to hear about…

  • How this government bail out is different from the AIG take over by the Federal Reserve
  • Why this 700 billion will cost us at least a trillion in real cost
  • Why we are almost in a total screwed if we do it and screwed worse if we don’t
  • How the expense of AIG is a “back end expense” and the new bail out is a direct tax payer expense
  • How we could actually make a profit with the bail out and why it will never happen
  • A plan to do the bail out that is a lot more fair and would work a lot better if we did it at all
  • The false flag of “greedy CEOs”, why it is right but doesn’t really matter
  • How the 700 Billion Dollar bail out will actually work, what will happen behind the scenes
  • How we are actually really “printing money” this time
  • Who is really going to benefit in the end from this disaster and why we are getting screwed so others can get rich
  • Thoughts on how to protect your wealth during this time
  • How this program will create a governmental agency that is bigger then the Department of Defense
  • How the unity of citizens has already been derailed by the CEO false flag
  • How we just sold trillions of dollars in real estate to the government for pennies on the dollar
  • The two year rule we should put on Options for executives
  • Why any there should be a retroactive requirement on past bonuses for at least 6 months
  • The alternative to doing nothing is a remake of 1930

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Episode-60- Keeping Your Head in Tough Times

I have been getting a lot of emails from people that are “freaking out” about the new developments in the economy, the 700 Billion dollar bailout and general break down of our economic system.  This is not the time to “freak out” or be scared it is now time to up your preps and get your head right.

Tune in today to hear…

  • How this 700 Billion dollar bail out is more debt and will devalue your money
  • Should you pull your money from stocks, take the would you buy it today test
  • No bonuses for the executives of failed companies
  • This ship is sinking but it isn’t the Titanic, take your time exiting and stay calm
  • Time for “rice and beans in a bucket”
  • Thoughts on “doubling up with family or friends” – it may not be a bad idea
  • Silver is one investment not an end all be all
  • Keeping some cash on hand
  • Increase your income and decrease your expenses and save, save, save
  • Dave Ramsey gets it wrong on “500 Trades from Armageddon”
  • Why people like Dave Ramsey CAN’T tell you to get out of the market even if they want to
  • A stock market “crash” does not mean zero
  • How a declining “US Empire” may be the gold lining to this huge mess
  • How this decline will be an opportunity for the informed and prepared
  • The election this time equals punched from the right with a metal glove or punched from the left with a barbwire wrapped boxing mitt, both will suck.
  • How the messages to each side (right/left) are always tailored to the polarized audiences
  • How the bail out is actually uniting the left and the right and the center, will they figure out that we all agree and let their congress critters know about it?
  • Where this 700 Billion is coming from
  • If you are poor and living poor you will be OK, if you are middle class and living that way you will be OK, if you are rich you will be OK the people in danger are the middle class who live as though they are rich.
  • In tough times the Ants harvest the “Grasshopper Graveyard”
  • When the economy takes a dump, good deals will be everywhere
  • Preserve, build and store your money and commodities and you will sale through most of this
  • Claim the life you really want, right now
  • The don’t buy for 48 hours challenge – take it and it will change your view of money
  • The psychology of a savings account vs a checking account

Resources for Today’s Show

Episode-56- Lies in Plain Sight – AIG Buyout is Seizure by a Private Entity

Today we will discuss the continuing financial mess and in particular the AIG “bail out”.  We will start out with a lie that has NOTHING to do with the financial market to simply demonstrate how lies often “hide” in plain sight of anyone who bothers to look at them even casually.

Tune in today to learn,

  • One of the biggest lies of the medical industry and how it shows us that a lie is best hidden in plain sight
  • Why “the government” didn’t bail out AIG, but how taxpayers are funding the buy out
  • How the Federal Reserve (a private company) now owns AIG, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, not the American people as we are led to believe
  • Who will be next?  Wamu, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, who?  Perhaps many?
  • The fallacy of FAS 157 and why financial assets are still not “marked to market”
  • How the tin foil hat brigade is, at certain times, spot on
  • Why the big foot to drop will be unsecured debt – 1 Trillion in toxic debt - That will never be repaid

Resources and Links for Today’s Show

  • Which US Bank Will Fail Next? – Specifically note the quote by Gerald Cassidy, – “If you were to truly mark them to market, the decline in value could be too large for them to be able to digest without raising equity capital.” – Clearly FAS 157 is not being followed as claimed.
  • Is Washington Mutual Going to be the Next Bank to Fail? – Note the facts on bad debt and adjustable rate mortgages along with a salary and bonus package of 20 Million Alan Fishman the new Chief Executive of WAMU.
  • Washington Mutual Hobbled By Increasing Defaults on Option ARMs -  Note facts from today’s show in this article, “Four percent of Washington Mutual’s option ARM portfolio probably will reset in the second half of this year and 13 percent, or $7.1 billion, will reset in 2009, according to the SEC filing”.  Also note this quote, “About 83 percent of the option ARMs issued from 2004 to 2007 were underwritten without full documentation of borrowers’ incomes, Fitch said.”
  • US Bancorp bad-loan cost may rise 25-28% – Note the confidence of this quote, ‘”Until we see loan losses absolutely going down, with certainty in more than one quarter, we’re going to continue to build our loan-loss provision — you should want us to do that,” Davis said’. – Is that confidence warranted, honestly I don’t know.

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Episode-55- The Real Cause of the American Revolution

The origins of the Federal Reserve and death of the gold standard on American currency and true cause of the American Revolution are the subjects of today’s show.

Tune in today to learn…

  • The real cause of the American Revolution it was not -”No taxation with out representation”
  • How The Federal Reserve Act was written in total secrecy
  • How leaving the gold standard made out money worthless
  • Why having a Federal Reserve results in debt that can never be escaped from
  • Why you children will be enslaved by debt if the Fed is allowed to continue
  • Why our currency is no longer an “honest currency”
  • How independent banks used to print currency backed by gold
  • How every dollar is nothing but a certificate for debt
  • What really happened to the gold seized from our citizens in the 1930s
  • How after 230 years we are right back where we started

Links for Today’s Show

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Episode-51 – Options and Reasons to Invest in Silver

I got quite a few questions about my comments on several episodes about investing in silver.  While I am not an investment adviser and can’t legally give specific recommendations I decided to do a show about some different options and the general advantages and disadvantages of each.  I also went over just a few of the many economic signals that it may be a good idea to hold some hard assets like silver in the coming years.

Tune in today to hear…..

  • The real value of silver and how it one time actually backed U.S. currency
  • My personal opinion and view about silver coins and bullion
  • The difficulty of finding a decent adviser that can help with metal investments
  • The advantage of “physically possessing” hard silver
  • Why you should keep individual increments small
  • The risk of highly numismatics purchases
  • The complete freedom of no minimums, no penalties of buying hard silver
  • The ways to buy silver paper assets like stock and funds
  • A bit on foreign silver coins
  • How to calculate “melt value” of silver coins
  • Investing as little as 5 bucks a month
  • The ability to sell off small quantities as needed
  • The huge advantage of “no paper trail” with small consumer purchases of silver
  • The inheritance value of handing down silver from one generation to the next

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Resources for Today’s Show

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