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Inflation & Interest: The Heat-Humidity Parallel – Epi-3369

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In the realm of weather, we often hear the age-old adage, “it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.” This saying, while rooted in some truth, can sometimes feel oversimplified. Indeed, a sweltering 90 degrees with high humidity might feel more oppressive than 95 degrees with low humidity. However, the reality is that both heat and humidity, individually or combined, can be perilous. They combine to create conditions that can lead to severe health risks, such as heat strokes. Drawing a parallel to our economic landscape, the dynamics of inflation and interest rates mirror the heat and humidity analogy. Individually, they … Continue reading →

Everything is Going to Crash – Epi-3347

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Right now all the warning lights are blinking, things look exactly as they did before the last three major recessions.  Including the things none of the talking heads bother to look at, say things as simple as companies canceling corporate events.  Lending is drying up, the Fed continues to raise rates to “reign in inflation” which is not working at all and yet jacking up prices of necessities. The stock market is poised to break it’s all time high while vehicle repossessions and foreclosures are rising.  We have seen this before so we know what comes next, but the next … Continue reading →

Episode-293- Economic Forecast 10-08-09

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So today we are going to discuss my view of what we can expect from the economy in the next few years and what we can do to prepare for it.  I will tell you why I think 2010 is actually going to look pretty decent and on the other side why you shouldn’t take that much comfor in it.  Then next week we will take a day to compare my view to the view of many of the experts such as Jim Rodgers and Gerald Celente. Tune in today to hear… Why I think we are about to see … Continue reading →

Episode-176- Money Equals Debt In Our National Economy

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OK so now down to earth prepping skills today instead with all the new people I felt we needed another show on the economy, more specifically how the money supply works and why every dollar is actually a certificate for debt. This is important to understand because modern survivalism is about building a sustainable lifestyle.  Not “saving the planet” but building a life that you can sustain if times get tough or even if they don’t.  Debt is the number one thing that enslaves Americans today and the number one cause of divorce.  On a national scale money and debt … Continue reading →

Episode-156- Recovery Equals Inflation

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Right now everyone is wondering when the economy is going to recover.  They are waiting for it as a tribesman awaits rains coming to the desert.  Oh won’t it be a glorious day when the Dow reverses course and begins a sustained climb, the banks open the mortgage food gates and “good Americans” do their patriotic duty and spend money? Hold on, my problem with this is in reality this is the recovery!  The nation turned into a bunch of credit, debt and spending addicts.  What you see now is the nation in rehab!  300 million addicts coming off the … Continue reading →

Episode-132- The 800 Billion Dollar Economic Stimulus Only Stimulates Big Government

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One of today’s biggest stories the the 800 Billion Dollar Economic Stimulus championed by the Democrats in Congress and Barak Obama.  Yet what does this bloated bill stimulate? Tune in today to hear… The code word for today’s Listener Apprecation Contest David Crawford’s Novel “Lights Out” to be made into an Audio Book – More Info Understanding the Stimulus is IN ADDITION TO the budge it is not the government budge for 2009 Just Some of the Items in this superposed “stimulus” Approximately $4.5 Billion for Federal management/oversight of the funds $650 Million for the Digital-To-Analog Converter Box Program $2.4 … Continue reading →

Episode-125- Mental Simulations of Disaster Scenarios

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Today we take a look at why we prep, what we prep for and the most important question any person evaluating current theats can ask themselves. Tune in today to hear… The big question is “what if”, and it unlocks the game plan for survival Using the pandemic disease threat to unlock the fact that the cause is less important then the threat itself Bridging the gap between the tin foil hat world and the more practical survivalists, why is less important that the fact that the results of potential disasters are the same Taking action is only valid if … Continue reading →

Episode-79 The Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Time Bomb

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How in the world can we have a quadrillion dollar problem when there isn’t anywhere near a quadrillion dollars in the world?  What the hell is a derivative and why should the average person care?  This may not be the most practical action podcast we do and it may be a bit hard to understand some of the points but I felt that I needed to discuss this with my listeners because it is in the words of Warren Buffet a “financial weapon of mass distruction” and it may go off any day!  Global thermal financial war! Tune in today … Continue reading →

Episode-71- Watch out for combined threats

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There has been a lot of focus on the bail out, economic disaster and falling numbers on Wall Street lately.  We even covered much of it here.  What is being missed however, is the real danger that while in this weakened state another aggravating circumstance may force us into a downward spiral.  Tune in today to hear, An actual letter mailed to Tarrant County Doctor’s Offices from the Tarrant County Medical Society Some of the shocking questions and their multiple choice answers in the survey that came with the letter Why now is the time to ratchet up your preps … Continue reading →

Episode-63- How the 700 Billion Dollar Bail Out Will Happen

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Today’s I am going to let you know we can expect to see happen regarding the bail out (Bush now calls a “Rescue Plan”) in the next few days.  Get ready for a great puppet show and to watch the public go from opposing the plan to begging for it by the time the week end is over. Tune in today to hear, Exactly what is the 700 Billion Dollar Bail Out really all about How we will be “sold” on the 700 Billion Dollar Bail Out Plan What the bail out will do to the market in the short … Continue reading →