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Episode-440- Expanding Your Financial IQ - Part 2 [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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

• Members Support Brigade
• TSP Gear Shop
• Join Our Forum
• The Berkey Guy - (sponsor of the day)
• MURS-Radio.com – (sponsor of the day)
• Naked Short Selling Explained
• The Covered Call Explained
• Class A, B and C Shares in Mutual Funds Explained
• InvestorWords.com – What an awesome resource!  Try learning one new word a day with it.
• Annuity Explained
• Ron Hood’s Survival.com Magazine

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.

Episode-439- Conventional and Unconventional Investing [ 1:14:04 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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

• Members Support Brigade
• TSP Gear Shop
• Join Our Forum
• Sawtooth Tactical – (sponsor of the day)
• Safecastle Royal – (sponsor of the day)
• Buying Gold – Good Info on Tax Issues
• Dollar vs the Franc
• Gold ETFs Explained
• Buying gold in small quantities (as little as one gram)
• Gold prices 1975-Present
• Silver prices 1985- Present
• Ron Hood’s Survival.com Magazine

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.