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Episode-661- The Future for Silver as an Investment

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Modern Survival| 26 Comments
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Silver is up, now it is down, record high, another record high, drops, now to the moon, then a massive drop, a minor recovery.  So what in the world is going on with the “white medal” the little sister of gold?  Today I will try to get past the hype, dig deeper into the reality and the reasons we hold metals like gold and silver in physical holdings in the first place along with answering a few of your emailed in questions along the way.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • A little price history about silver
  • The concept of a floor
  • Silver’s relationship to gold
  • If silver goes to 25 dollars it is actually “down”
  • What is a moving average and what it tells us as
  • Where does silver go next
  • George Soros is selling metal, what does that mean
  • Was the silver margin increase a conspiracy
  • What a naysayer has to say about silver
  • Evaluation of profit, loss and perceived loss

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Episode-572- Economic Fear vs. Common Sense Reality

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Modern Survival| 35 Comments
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So today’s show is drawing from a large volume of emails about financial and economic issues based on a request I made for such materiel this week on facebook.    I decided to do today’s show due to a excess of false fear I am seeing in the market right now.  Tune in today to learn why as I put it, “yes Rome is burning but no the sky isn’t falling”

Tune in today to hear…

  • Gold is always THE answer but it is often an answer
  • Understand you don’t have to sell all of anything, you can liquidate half
  • Stop being afraid to hold onto some cash
  • Why yes you should pay off debt and no inflation won’t help YOUR debt
  • What is going on with this JP Morgan, Max Keizer silver short thing
  • If no wealthy people put all assets in one class, why should we, why should our nation
  • What is a TIPs
  • What does it mean when people take a negative interest rate on a TIPs
  • How should we view real estate for us as individuals
  • My case to you as a fellow share holder for the restructuring of USA Inc.

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Episode-538- A New Understanding of Money – Part One

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Modern Survival| 26 Comments
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My hope today is to help you understand money from as many new perspectives as possible.  If you think about it nothing in general has a greater effect on the lives of most Americans than money.  Money is why we work, how we provide our housing and food, how we are taxed and how our class structure is defined.  We can deny this if we choose to but a family with a gross income of 100,000 dollars a year lives a much more comfortable life than one with a gross income of say 25,000  a year.

Yet if you ask most people, “what is money” they really have no idea.  Now if you are going to answer that question with something like, “gold and silver” you really don’t have the answer either.  Money is far deeper than to try to simply define it with a group of commodities.  I promise you that no matter what you think about money from its constitional basis, national purpose or method of creation that today’s show will expand your horizons.  It may also challenge you.

As always, I reserve the right to be wrong and that includes today, but I have spent more effort on gaining a new perspective on this issue than any other in the past year.  So tune in with an open mind today and when you feel challenged really think about what I have to say, examine and re examine it but please don’t dismiss anything due to political allegiance or personal bias, that is all I ask.

Join me today to discuss…

  • How money is created today in the US
    • The birth of dollars
    • The dollars have children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and so on
    • Buying nothing, with nothing and creating something
  • How does money derive worth
    • Inflation
    • Deflation
    • Monetary Velocity
  • Vanishing dollars
    • Paying off debt eliminates money
    • Defaults on debt eliminate money
    • The shrinking M3 Supply – how is it possible
  • The Monetary Systems Traps
    • Total debt is always bigger than total supply
    • Elimination of debt contracts the money supply
  • The income tax exists to service the debt not primary spending
    • New Federal Debt in 2009 was 1.1 Trillion
    • The expense of interest alone in 2009 was 383 Billion
    • Personal Income Tax Receipts in 2009 where 1.21 Trillion
    • We spent 1.48 Trillion to service debt in 2009 about 200 Billion more than income tax receipts

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Episode-526- Controlling Economic Fear and Moving Forward

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Modern Survival| 7 Comments
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Last night I spent over two hours with some great folks on a PalTalk session in the Gold and Silver chat room discussing hyperinflation and prepping in general.  These were great people but I think a lot were surprised that my recommendation wasn’t just buy lots of precious metals and yes soon the sky is going to fall.  My view is there is a tremendous amount of fear in the market that sells gold and silver and that is part of the issue.  Yet the problem is bigger, advice flies around the alternative space like…

  • Clean out your 401K now, penalties be damned
  • Sell every stock you own now the market is going to crash in 5 days
  • Put 100% of your money into gold it is the only safe place
  • Just get a gun and you can take what ever you need
  • Screw it stay in debt when TSHTF no one will be around to collect it
  • “They” are going to destroy everything anyway

In the end we must understand that there is really no “they” there is only us, now us is a big group and we know many of us are idiots and many are greedy but many are also good people.  In the end though it is still us, nothing more and nothing less.  We will take the course most of us choose, that course looks really bad right now but it doesn’t mean the good people give up, stop building their own lives, etc.

Join me today as I discuss…

  • Exactly what is inflation vs. simple money devaluation
  • What makes inflation “hyper inflation”
  • What is deflation and why it can and still does happen
  • What gold, silver, etc can and can not do for you
  • Why you need some cash
  • Weimar vs. Russian and Argentinian Hyperinflation
  • Keep in your mind the 5 things we really need
    • Food
    • Water
    • Shelter
    • Energy
    • Security
  • Why land is really your best investment
  • Why an defeatist attitude is poison to your life
  • The attitude you must have going into the next shift
  • Why in the end it all comes down to you

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Episode-488- Listener Feedback for 8-9-10

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Modern Survival| 19 Comments
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Well it is Monday and time for another round of your questions, feedback and commentary. Today we discuss GMO crops that have “escaped”, buying property, the actions of a soon to be lame duck congress, concealed carry and more.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • Portable solar power options
  • Concealed carry for the 1911
  • What is velocity of money, what drives it
  • Best surface water, river, pond or both
  • South facing or north facing slopes for BOL
  • Refinancing a mortgage (pay down or remain steady)
  • Lessons from an ATM outage and two water shortages
  • What might we see as far as gun legislation from a lame duck congress
  • What do we learn from the “escape” of GMO canola

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Episode-431- Listener Feedback 5-10-10

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Modern Survival| 14 Comments
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I am back from my mini vacation down to Llano with Ron Hood’s gang with a new episode that will feature you questions and comments on subjects including, the market drop, round up resistent weeds, a 401k grab and more.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • How many blindfolds does the system place around 401Ks
  • How can you buy silver inside a retirement account
  • Why 100% of savings into retirement accounts can really hurt you
  • Will the government “seize” 401Ks, the truth is not black and white
  • Food is going up like crazy, hardly anyone is talking about it
  • Inflation is part of the “false recovery”
  • Why did the Dow drop 1000 points in one hour than just bounce right back
  • What is a “floor” in a market and how does it work, when does it change
  • More money in peppers, onions & broccoli that wheat, corn & soy?
  • Now GMO soy has brought us “super weeds” ain’t that great?

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    Episode-428- What Will a U.S. Economic Collapse Look Like

    Posted on April 30, 2010 by Modern Survival| 11 Comments
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    Note – there is a MSB discount in today’s show it will expire on Sunday night.  It is mentioned at the end of the house keeping segment.

    What Will a U.S. Economic Collapse Look Like?  More important than what it looks like may be what will the consequences be?  Survival fiction is full of ideas about this concept that range from a second period of time like the great depression to the total end of all civilization.  As usual my opinion is that most often the reality is closer to a middle ground.  Today we will examine some current issues and consider what it would mean for us if the dollar collapses.

    Join me today as we discuss…

    • First could I be wrong about the false recovery – could this be as good as it gets before the next crash?
    • What is an Alt-A Loan and what happened to FAS 157
    • Then a blast from the past as I replay part of my show from July, 23rd 2008 about FAS 157
    • Exactly what could really trigger the next crash
    • Why the big banks are “making nice” with the Feds
    • The danger that we lack skills in this nation
    • The lack of any real savings in America
    • The debt that has not gone away
    • The ostriches that simply think it can’t happen to me because they made it this far
    • When food fails so does everything else
    • Return of the “large family”
    • Fleeing to and away from cities – the death of the suburbs
    • Why you should act now, not tomorrow

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    Episode-417- Reducing Your Tax Footprint

    Posted on April 15, 2010 by Modern Survival| 12 Comments
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    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

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    Episode-297- Listener Calls Answered 10-14-09

    Posted on October 14, 2009 by Modern Survival| 4 Comments
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    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

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    Episode-225- Audience Questions for 6-22-09

    Posted on June 22, 2009 by Modern Survival| 9 Comments
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    Tune in today for answers to questions about ammo storage, desert water harvesting, PCP Air Rifles, gasoline storage and more.  Also I will let you know about our new YouTube Channel, a Soldiers Tribute Video I made on Friday to the Song “World” by “Five for Fighting”.

    I also just appeared on the 21st on the BrewCrazy Podast.  You can hear my guest host appearence by visiting the BrewCrazy Website.

    Tune in Today to Here me Answer…

    • Are we starting to see global inflation?  Is that worse then US inflation?
    • How do you store water in the desert and maximize water harvest?
    • What advantages are there for PCP Air Rifles for Hunting and Survivalism?
    • Will we ever see a political migration?
    • What can you do for long term gasoline storage?
    • What about a 3rd world bug out location?
    • What is a black soldier fly?
    • What is a minimum amount of ammo to store?  What about ammo storage life?
    • What about Tupperware tubs for food storage?
    • Is there a tactical vs. practical shotgun compromise weapon for home defense?

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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.

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