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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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
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.
Well even though I am on the road today I do have a show for you today. Today I am playing a rebroadcast of the Baldy and the Blonde Show from WGSO 990AM in New Orleans, LA.
They gave me a great interview discussing the first five tenents of the Modern Survival Philosophy and Modern Survivalism as a method of early retirement.
Please Note – There may not be a show every day this week because I will be traveling working on the next edition of the martial arts DVD series of Ballistic Striking – With Val Riazanov
I really recommend checking out Baldy and the Blonde’s website and you may even want to listen to the entire show from the date of my interview. They covered a new Senate bill
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.
So you want to be a revolutionary? You want to be a patriot? You want to be like the great men and women that helped create our nation. Today I have a different way to look at that concept. To be a real radical perhaps set your sites a bit further back into history. Tune in today to see what I mean. Revolution is in the air.
Join me today as we discuss…
The difference between what you care about and what you can influence
Why you have to fight a “guerrilla war” at this point in the game
Why radical, rebel and revolutionary are positive things
Why growing food is the ultimate act of rebellion
Why building things is an act of rebellion
How we now plan out deaths instead of retirement
Why you don’t have to do many of the things you think you do
The motivation that makes you do things you don’t want to do
Changing that motivation into a positive force
The sliding scale, your on it what does it mean and what direction are you going
What would you do if you could do anything you wanted
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.
We have another round of your comments and questions today on subjects such as permaculture, a government grab of 401K money, sharing the prepper mindset with friends and more.
Tune in today as we discuss…
Prepping a garden with out digging and not using Round Up
Prepping for truckers and others who travel with work
Ideas for Zone One planting for a permacultured yard
How to share prepping with out the typecast hurting you
Truck or car if you can only have one vehicle?
The legalities and mechanics of squirrel trapping
Spreading prepping by gardening
A Texas mom plans all family meals for 1 full year (stealth prepping)
A report from a listener who ordered from a few sponsors of TSP
A trick from Korea with gas cans and water (you got to hear this one)
Is the government coming after our 401ks, it sure looks like they plan to
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.
Notice that I did not say “preparing for retirement”, what I am talking about was brought up in a great post by CdnGuy on our forum about how using the preparedness lifestyle with intent can lead to a much more rewarding and much earlier retirement then most Americans can ever hope for.
Tune in today to hear…
A retirement plan regardless of age starts with needs/wants assessment
To get motivated the first step is to understand “systemic dependence” and become disgusted with it
You must ask this question, what is retirement to YOU, my answer doesn’t matter only yours does
If you had no debt how much would you really need
There is currently a war against retirement to win you must first understand the war
How Madison Avenue lies about retirement destroy the best years of our lives
Retirement is for soul building and soul mate building
What is your motivation
Why you can sacrifice for 10 years but can’t and won’t for 50 and the trap that creates
Redefining what investing means and why your “adviser” is your retirements worst enemy
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.
Today we do another round of listener questions. We have some great questions today on things like handguns, dealing with wildlife, securing weapons in a home with children, storing fishing gear and more.
In the intro segment we name Roxana Mayer as assclown of the day for pretending to be a doctor while at a town hall meeting with Shelia Jackson Lee in support of Obamacare. We also name Charles “Gus” Agusto, Jr. as hero of the day for taking out four armed gunmen with an old pump shotgun. Oh by the way “Gus” is 72 years old. Salute to you sir!
Tune in to hear me answer the following questions…
How do you store fishing line long term? (easy one)
What about the 40 S&W for a defensive handgun round?
What’s up with the expiration dates on thing like rice, pasta and beans?
How do you deal with bears, does bear spray work?
How do you safely keep a gun in the home with an autistic child?
What should you do to prep if you live on an island?
What about buying real estate with an IRA and making improvements to it?
What type of food do you keep in a BOB in very hot climates?
Is water collected from an AC condenser good for the garden?
How do you build a community in an everyday neighborhood?
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.
