Posts Tagged ‘silver’
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.
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
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
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.
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, May 10th, 2010
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…
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
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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, April 5th, 2010
Well I am off to visit the folks at Black Belt Magazine (listen to today’s show for details) and may not have a show for you every day this week. I did get up at 0430 to be sure to get today’s done before boarding the plane though.
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
Join me today as we discuss…
- Will the dollar enter a death spiral
- The search engine that might know too much about you
- Keys to successful container gardening with tomatoes
- Vitamix – deal or dud?
- Thoughts on unimproved land
- How to use heavy equipment without damaging landscapes
- Raised beds and chemical leach from wood finishes
- A listener from Hemet, California explains the impact of the housing crash
- Permaculture on small yards
- JP Morgans commits silver fraud, no one seems to care, YET!
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.
