Posts Tagged ‘gold’
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
I hope everyone had a good holiday and took some time to relax with family and friends. I also hope everyone took a brief moment at least to be thankful for the sacrifices that Memorial Day represents. I am back from the Arkansas BOL with another round of your questions, feedback and commentary.
Join me today as we discuss…
- Why do I believe a U.S. economic collapse won’t result in a total TEOTWAWKI
- Why do I say a ROTH IRA always wins over a conventional IRA
- What is the easiest way to sight in a new scoped rifle
- Why do I spend a lot more time talking about silver than gold
- Is gold used as currency/barter right now, it is in India
- Nothing like the Gulf Oil Disaster has happened before, OR HAS IT?
- Why is the government REALLY interested in getting maximum census participation?
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.
Friday, May 21st, 2010
I decided we should extend from yesterday’s show about investing. The harsh reality is we are bombarded by financial terms in news and media every day. Often this is done as a type of class warfare that is totally lost on most of the population. Such as blaming the woes of the stock market on “naked short selling”. At times such statements are at least partially true at others they are totally false. Yet one thing is clear, 90% of the sheep that are all pissed off at the “naked short sellers” have no idea what short selling is, how it works, what it does, the risks involved, etc. They also have zero idea what it means to be “naked” on a short sale, the reason shot selling exists or how they can go short sell if they want to as well.
This is just one more component of the dumbing down of America. The media uses terms in a positive or a negative light but makes no attempt to explain them to a population they know very well doesn’t understand them. Hence people take a positive view of terms like “reform” and negative views of terms like “shorting” but they don’t really know what the terms mean at all. My view is form your own opinion, control your own money, etc. but don’t form opinions based on another person’s view of a word you don’t even truly understand.
Join me today as we discuss…
- What is a put (aka a short)
- What is a call
- What does it mean when you are “naked” in an option
- What is a derivative
- What is a P/E Ratio
- What is a dividend
- What is a DRIP
- What are Class A, B and C shares in your mutual funds
- What is an annuity
My goal in today’s show is simply to improve your financial understanding and vocabulary. I know some may not see this as a true “survival topic”. Yet given the current state of the U.S. and Global economies and the risk posed by any level of economic collapse understanding money may be one of the most important components of your future survival.
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 20th, 2010
I get a lot of questions about investing both conventional and unconventional so today I am going to try to address both. Yet unlike the typical supposed financial guru I will discuss this from a prepper/modern survivalist view point.
In today’s show I will go over a variety of investing options, I will discuss some of the positives and negatives of each, I will explain how many of them work, the hidden problems in the most common ones and more. I WILL NOT be telling you what to invest in or how you should personally invest. I do not give financial advice on TSP I simply explain what I see in trends, how things work and the risks and rewards in different investments.
America has developed a new dependency in the last 50 years. No it isn’t enough to be dependent on systems for energy, food, medicine and a million more things, no now we are dependent on people to tell us how to hold and invest our own money. Enough is enough, time to raise your financial IQ and begin understanding things deeply enough to make your own decisions.
Join me today as we discuss…
- Why investing always means risking
- What is the only reason we invest in the first place
- Why most financial advisers simply SUCK
- Mutual funds, the good, the bad, the ugly
- Individual stocks
- Dividends – something but not everything
- Why you must “time the market” but that doesn’t make you a “trader”
- Gold and Silver don’t always glitter but they usually do
- Metal stocks vs. actual metal
- Metal stocks vs. metal ETFs
- Real estate – not low risk but it can be
- Cash – yes it looses value but at a “fixed rate” in normal times
- Foreign currencies – not really all that great, not all that bad either
- Food the one that never fails
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, May 17th, 2010
Today we do another listener feedback Monday and discuss your questions about precious metals IRAs, bugging in vs. bugging out, the lie that everyone should go to college, advice for people considering a military career and more.
Join Me Today As We Discuss…
- What military trades are best for post military careers?
- What is a “maintenance echelon and why should a perspective solider care?
- What should a person do that doesn’t want to bug out?
- Is a college degree necessary, can it be a bad idea for some?
- Can you hold physical gold and silver in an IRA or just “paper metal”?
- How do you secure gold and silver in your home?
- What should you consider before you get a safe deposit box?
- What permaculture investments can a short term resident make in property?
- Are organic pesticides safe for your garden?
- Is the state of Pennsylvania threatening its citizens with thuggery?
- Does the Federal Reserve use lobbyists?
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 » Friday, April 16th, 2010
I still am sitting on a huge back log of questions and inputs from my week away so I though I would do some catching up for you today. Additionally some recent shows have provoked a few questions/concerns/objections that I thought I would handle today as well.
I have also been asked on the forum to do a show called “The Best of the Tin Foil Hat Brigade”, discussing the possible reality behind some conspiracy theories. That may be a bit much for an entire show if such theories are not your thing so today I will pick one or two from that thread and give you my opinion (note the word OPINION) on them.
Tune in today to discuss…
- Barter is reportable as income to the IRS – SO WHAT!
- Do I “hate government” and want all things turned over to the corporations
- Is there anything at all behind the 9-11 Truther Movement
- Is now a good time to buy gold and silver given their current pricing
- How much longer will vacuum sealed seeds store than conventionally stored
- Fluoride is a toxin? Yes!
- Buying metal online or locally and the sales tax effect
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, 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.
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Today on the first day of a new month and a new week we do our regular listener feedback show. I have a huge back log of questions and comments so I may have to do a few of these this and next week just to catch up. That said keep your questions, comments and suggestions coming.
Join me today to discuss…
- Why I on occasion use words considered profane on the air (see my disclaimer here)
- Advice on choosing a rifle between at Remington, Savage and a Marlin
- Real estate rental properties as an investment
- What do you do for mulch in a place like Las Vegas
- Are mega packages of survival manual pdfs worth the cost
- How do you wake up to debt cancer before a problem does it for you
- Will silver and gold be worth anything if TSHTF and what does the bible say about this
- The trials of owning “Eskimo dogs” and where they fit in a permaculture system
- Saving pennies and nickels for “copper value” is it worth it
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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10 Comments » Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
I am at home today so I decided to do a show answering your call in questions. We have questions on a ton of subjects today like buying a new dog, buying a BOL, conspiracy theories, politics, gold and more. If you would like to be on TSP yourself just call 866-65-THINK and leave your question and we will try to get you on soon.
Tune in Today as I answer…
- How do you protect fruit trees from insects
- How can you be sure a dog is a pure breed if you are buying one
- What is a good survival knife
- When buying a BOL what is more important the land or the structure on it
- What do you need to know about wood stoves, pellet stoves and fire place inserts
- What is up with that movie Zeitgeist
- What does majority rule and minority rights mean
- Can the government grab your gold
- Is the prepper/survivalist trend moving into main stream society
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
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10 Comments » Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
OK I am at home in my home office dealing with some sort of crud the wife brought home from her doctors office. So I dove into the massive caller question backlog.
Tune in today as I answer…
- Thoughts on creating your own guaranteed investments (sort of like an annuity)
- Thoughts about setting up and running a home based business
- Where silver fits in a barter economy, the phases of civil break down and why cash will be king at first
- Why talk show host Dave Ramsey is right about debt but dead wrong about silver and gold
- What to do when you have to evac your home before you leave
- Thoughts on buying a home with a well and a septic tank what to look out for
- What works and doesn’t work for long term food storage
- Thoughts on the EMP threat and how to harden electronics
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.
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