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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

Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-522- Call In Friday 10-01-10

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Modern Survival| 36 Comments
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Okay time for another Call In Friday on TSP, to hear yourself on the air call in to 866-65-THINK to leave a 1-2 minute question or comment.  Today we have questions on things like hording nickles, permaculture, desert plantings, 72 hour kits for the airline traveler and more.

Join me today as I discuss…

  • Storing water for your vehicle during cold winters
  • Propagating horse apple for hedge rows
  • How to buy a house with out a credit card (the question that won’t die)
  • BOBs for the Airline Travler
  • Secondary evac routes for bug out planning
  • Harbor Freight – some good deals a listener found
  • Plantings for a west property wall in the desert
  • Remote location permaculture ideas
  • Hording nickels a good idea or crazy talk
  • Protecting your assets on a budget

Resources for today’s Show…

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Episode-515- An Interview with Chris Martenson – Author of The Crash Course

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Modern Survival| 33 Comments
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Chris Martenson Author of The Crash Course Today on The Survival Podcast we are fortunate to have with us as a guest Chris Martenson who is the creator of “The Crash Course”. Crash Course is an incredible look at our global population and resources that we require as a population.

The Crash Course is definitely not “feel good” viewing but I think every American should see it and after we visit with Chris today I am sure you are going to want to check it out, perhaps even watch it again if like many listeners you have already watched it before.

Join Chris and I today as we discuss…

  • What is “The Crash Course and what is its message?
  • Why is population growth itself a potential disaster?
  • Which resources will first feel population driven shortages?
  • Why are we on course for an energy shortage soon?
  • Why more oil, gas, alternative, nuclear etc. isn’t enough?
  • What are the biggest pending dangers to our economy?
  • How is money loaned into existence?
  • What is meant by primary, secondary and “third order” wealth?
  • What does it mean to become “resilient”?
  • Why is community important for preppers?
  • What are some methods of individual energy independence?
  • What are some easy methods of food and water storage?
  • Why is growing your own food so important?
  • Why does it make sense to invest in productive land?

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Episode-501- The Real State of the Economy

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Modern Survival| 21 Comments
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I haven’t really discussed the economy in quite a while much less the current state.  I know these shows are not everyone’s cup of tea but if you are concerned with your future you really do need to be informed about the current risks.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • Forget left and right – conservative and liberal, this is about math!
  • Social Security not takes in less money than it pays out – insolvency has begun
  • Is Alan Sloan right, is a social security bail out next
  • The economic geniuses say screw the deficit grow the economy – WTF!
  • What the hell is going on the Dow should go under 10K today
  • The U.S. Debt Clock and the numbers we never look at
  • Peter Schiff says the bond market is the “mother of all bubbles”
  • Where is the recovery?  China and India
  • What does it mean for us?

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Episode-471- Mike Gasior on the State of the Economy

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Modern Survival| 27 Comments
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Mike Gasior is with us today, Mike is a consummate expert, he has authored ten textbooks on investments and the investment markets, and over 700,000 people worldwide read his monthly newsletter. His breakthrough radio program “Big Money with Mike Gasior”, which aired worldwide on the VoiceAmerica Radio Network, was one the first shows ever to focus on the needs, concerns and issues faced by the world’s largest investors and Mike is a regular guest on the “Naked Short Club” show in London.

He is also the founder of AFS Seminars in 1989 after spending time with several Wall Street firms and a major European bank. In his teaching he uses anecdotes and lessons drawn from his lifetime of experience with economics, investments and the financial markets to deliver knowledge with a dynamic, interactive teaching style that I find to be among the best in the industry.

And we are fortunate to have him here with us today on The Survival Podcast.

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Episode-442- Listener Feedback 5-25-10

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Modern Survival| 18 Comments
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Today we are going to continue to whittle down on the massive back log of your questions and your feedback.  Today we discuss a conversation with a good financial adviser, buying silver bars vs. coins,  and the freedom our government officials have to do insider trading and more.

I also want to let everyone know we now have a great new product in The Survival Podcast Gear Shop.  You can see my video review of it on my Youtube Channel  -  It is a very cool French Press Tumbler

Join me today as we discuss…

  • If you avoid a massive loss in the stock market during extreme cases is that really “market timing”
  • When and where does “buy and hold” make sense
  • Why must you do if you are going to work with any financial adviser
  • Why 20-Year Term Life Insurance is not a long term investment
  • Thoughts on a carry gun for a lady and problems with a Bersa 380
  • Food preservation supplies for new preppers on a very limited budget
  • How do you choose between silver bars vs. coins, the answer isn’t cut and dry
  • How do you get rid of poison ivy vines – it ain’t easy
  • Is inside trading legal, it is if you are in congress
  • Creative ideas for selling paid for real estate
  • The new 1099s are coming in 2011, what does that really mean
  • When it comes down to it who should you really listen to about anything

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Episode-440- Expanding Your Financial IQ – Part 2

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Modern Survival| 6 Comments
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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.

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Episode-439- Conventional and Unconventional Investing

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Modern Survival| 14 Comments
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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

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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?

Resources for today’s show…

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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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