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Episode-1850- Getting Started with Bitcoin and Ether

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Modern Survival| 12 Comments
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Coinbase is the Safe and Easy Way to Get Started with Bitcoin

Today I am going to go into the basics of what Bitcoin, Ether and other alternative currencies are, how they work, why they work and how you can use them.

I am not and I do not claim to be an expert on alternative currencies.  What I do have is an exceptional understanding of money and economics, and while Bitcoin and other alt coins are not “money” as defined by the US Government (which is good by the way), they are in fact money and every bit as legitimate as the US Dollar, in fact as you will see today perhaps more so.

My hope at the end of the show today is that if you want to use bitcoin you know how to and can do so without fear.  To dispel the continued propaganda myths around alt currencies and to dispel the dumbest myth of all, that Bitcoin is akin to virtual Tulip Mania.

Join Me Today To Discuss…

  • First how conventional money works
    • Monetary Creation
    • Where the “value” comes from
    • Why this insane system does in fact work
  • How Bitcoins are “mined”
  • Why Bitcoin is deflationary
  • What makes Bitcoin secure or not secure
  • How Bitcoin can be very public or very private
  • What is Ether, how is it different from Bitcoin
  • What about other alternative currencies
  • The easy way to get started
    • Coinbase (Click Here to Set Up an Account)
      • A lot like Paypal
      • Can hold Bitcoin and Ether as well as Dollars
      • Yes they do report to the .Gov
      • They are extremely secure
      • Allows you to buy, sell, send and receive Bitcoin
  • My final thoughts on Bitcoin as an “investment”
    • Instantly Liquid (48 hours in a vault)
    • Can be completely hidden from seizure
    • Is not legally money (this is good)
    • Total quantity and production is know
    • More users must increase the value of it

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Episode-1749- Financial Preparedness the Modern Survivalist Way

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Modern Survival| 47 Comments
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It Would Be Funny If It Wasn't So Accurate

It Would Be Funny If It Wasn’t So Accurate

Tuesday shows are always stand alone, just Jack shows on a particular subject.  Today’s will be on financial prepping, next Tuesday will be on guns and the following will be on food storage and prep.  This was all due to the results of an informal Facebook poll.  You can see the post and results here.

To that end I will be doing more stuff like this in the future to let you guys tell me what topics you want covered.  Today we delve into financial preparedness in a way you won’t ever learn in school and almost no “financial adviser” will ever assist you with, except perhaps John Pugliano.

Economics and the reality of unfunded liabilities, the national debt along with everyday financial worries is the number one reason people get into the preparedness lifestyle.  Sometimes it is from a practical approach but just as often it is panic and fear based.  Today we set aside panic and establish a base of common sense and pragmatic techniques to build, preserve and protect wealth.

Join Me Today To Discuss…

  • The number one wealth killer – poverty consciousness
  • The number two wealth killer – consumer age thinking
  • Why the two are actually related and not as oppositional as you’d think
  • The lesson of the game Monopoly
  • Why debt is cancer and must be eradicated
  • Why saving is more important than investing for most people
  • The lessons of alternative energy
    • Start with increasing efficiency (income)
    • Reduce losses (spending)
  • My rules for truly becoming financially resilient
    • Increase your economic IQ – daily for a year at least
    • Save money, determine what you can save, then do a bit more
    • Reduce expenses in small ways, put at least half of it away
    • Create additional income (business, second job, more hours)
    • Save money (cash on hand, cash in bank, CDs, bonds)
    • Become a land owner on some level
    • Put some money into silver/gold (5-10% of NW)
    • Put some money into bitcoin (a little each month or quarter)
    • Become a producer of food, yes, really
    • Plant trees
    • Buy the best you can afford once vs. cheap twice
    • Become highly skilled at fixing your own problems
    • See opportunity everywhere because it is everywhere
    • Become a great cook
    • Invest in only what you understand and only when it makes sense
    • Get out of the way of telegraphed punches, yes time the market
    • Pay off all debt asap, I know I said it before and I will keep saying it
  • Final thoughts – The game is rigged, it is a big club, you are not in it!

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Episode-1482- John Pugliano on Small Business as a Wealth Building Tool

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Modern Survival| 53 Comments
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John Pugliano of Investable Wealth

John Pugliano of Investable Wealth

John Pugliano is a late blooming entrepreneur and the founder of Investable Wealth, LLC an independent fee only investment advisory firm. John served in the military for 7 years before starting a 20 year corporate career in sales and marketing of industrial products.

More importantly he followed his passion and honed his skills as an individual investor for over 25 years before becoming an investment adviser. Understanding the plight of the retail investor, he advises clients using the experience he gained while managing his own portfolio. John has recently launched the Wealthsteading Podcast.

John practices what he preaches. He believes in first being a disciplined saver, getting your preps in order, and then investing in the stock market. John is a long time TSP listener, he’s a MSB member, and a PermaEthos Founder.

Today he joins us to discuss small business ownership as a primary method of building wealth.  In this show John discusses getting mentors, developing entrepreneurship groups, funding your start up, building local and then reaching out nationally or internationally.

He then goes into why value add is a great entry method into business start up.  How you can gain insight by talking to local businesses and business owners.  John also explains the necessity of a simple business plan, keeping employee head count low or even to zero and learning from your mistakes.

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Episode-1418- How Can I Find a Better Way to Make a Living

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Modern Survival| 50 Comments
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I am not sure why but I have been hit up with a ton of emails lately asking for career and business advice.  I guess something is stirring up the natural desire for liberty at a higher level and many are seeing their employment for what it is, indentured servitude.

Jobs are not inherently bad things.  I had many jobs over the years.  Some people don’t want to be entrepreneurs they just want a better career and a better place to work.

I find it hard to advise people on this stuff.  Yes I spent a lot of years employee but I have been an entrepreneur for most of my life as well.  Even when I  had a j-o-b I still had some sort of a side business.  I started my first real company in 1998, it is often hard after all those years to advise on both the entrepreneur and employee side of the fence but I will do my best to do so today.

For anyone that wonders if this is a survival topic, I will just say this.  Most preppers get into survivalism because of a fear that something could go wrong and cost them their incomes, their savings, their homes and their happiness if they are unprepared.

Great but if you are miserable now, how happy do you really think you’ll be eating MREs in the apocalypse?  Or, will it matter that only you lost your home due to a lost job and everyone else still has theirs?  Does it make sense to worry about the collapse of a dollar when you barely have any dollars?

Join Me Today to Discuss…

  • Start with what is good about your current job/business/income
  • Then yes dig into what is bad about it, what you hate
  • Next ask yourself what do I really love to do (focus on doing not the thing)
  • Now find the things that let you do the things you love to do (product)
  • No identify the obstacles to doing what you want to do
  • Develop a plan to leverage what you have to get what you need
  • The key really lies in personal development and confidence
  • No one will give it to you and luck is only what you make of it
  • Those who create reap the greatest rewards and fall the hardest
  • In the end you have to make the choices for yourself

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Episode-1219- John Pugliano on Rules for the Beginning Investor

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Modern Survival| 17 Comments
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John Pugliano of InvestableWealth.com

John Pugliano of InvestableWealth.com

John Pugliano is a self taught investor with over 25 years of investment experience. Recently he founded Investable Wealth, LLC to offer independent advice and money management based on his stock trading philosophy and methods.

John has served in the military and worked for several large corporations. He is the father of six. John and his wife Cheryl live happily and debt free in Utah.

John spent 20 years in corporate America as an industrial products business development salesman.  More importantly for past 25+ years he has taught myself to invest in the stock market and today has a net worth in excess of 1 million dollars.

He is now a licensed financial adviser and owner of an investment advisory firm.  Like myself, John has had an extremely low opinion of the financial adviser industry- which is one reason why he has started his own firm.

Join Me As We Discuss John’s Formula for Beginning Investor…

  • 1. First get your preps in order
  • 2. Research & Education
  • 3. Only invest what you’re prepared to lose
  • 4. Open an account at a discount broker
  • 5. Only trade index ETSs- SPY, QQQ, IWM, etc ( if locked into a 401K)
  • 6. Swing trade between cash and index ETFs based on market sentiment
  • 7. Buy a little late into the rally and get out early
  • 8. Never Buy & Hold
  • 9. Learn from your mistakes

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Episode-1144- Building Wealth with John Pugliano

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Modern Survival| 32 Comments
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John Pugliano has been in corporate America for past 20+ years as an industrial products business development salesman.  More importantly for past 25+ years he has taught myself to invest in the stock market and today has a net worth in excess of 1 million dollars.

Recently he has become licensed and started an investment advisory firm.  Like myself, John has had an extremely low opinion of the financial adviser industry- which is one reason why he has started his own firm.

John joins us to discuss building wealth and steps to financial independence (get rich slow, 21 years or less, depending on your knowledge and situation).   This is a “beyond Dave Ramsey” get out of debt concept with three critical steps

  • 1) Learn a marketable skill
  • 2) Get paid for achievement not by the hour
  • 3) Develop passive income.

Today we discuss how this works based on Thomas Stanley’s book “The Millionaire Next Door”.   We also discuss how can just about anyone become financially independent in 21 years or less. Ways to detect “financial liars.  How to get your kid’s to fund their own education and how living debt free is the ultimate way to run your financial life.

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Episode-973- Gregory Mannarino on the Coming Economic Collapse

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Modern Survival| 41 Comments
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Greg Mannarino of Market Report

Greg Mannarino of Market Report

Gregory Mannarino is a financial strategist, technical analyst, and also a practicing health care provider. Greg is the “host” of a popular daily YouTube blog which explores and exposes the machinations of Wall Street, finance, economics, government, and current events relating to these subjects.

Greg started his financial career working on Wall Street as an analyst and trader for the securities and trading arm of Bear Stearns during the dot-com bubble.

He began his medical career practicing at Staten Island University Hospital Emergency Department.

He also served as a commissioned officer in the United States Naval Reserve Medical Service Corps.

To date Greg is the author of 7 books, his newest book is titled “The Politics Of Money,” and is a complete version of all his works which have been updated as well.  This latest version of his work, The Politics Of Money, will supersede and replace all of his previous books as he will be phasing out his previous publications.

In Greg’s own words,

“I am a Wall Street insider who knows the global money game. Please allow me to walk you through and show you how money really works. We are now in the midst of a transition period to a new monetary system, and the greatest transfer of wealth in human history is already well underway.

In the literal sense it is grand theft on an unimaginable scale being perpetrated by the world’s major banks and fostered by our policymakers.”

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Episode-770- Modern Financial Survival

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Modern Survival| 43 Comments
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Yesterday I stated that we are about to in effect go into the middle of a financial war.  I am not sure the analogy was fully understood it wasn’t so much about fighting the battle but more about the way that even if good is the end result how many can be harmed in the process.

This resulted in a litany of people trying to nit pick about the justification for WWII, why the US prospered after the war, etc.   Such people are literalists that don’t comprehend analogies and tell “ants are socialists”, when you tell them the ant and grasshopper story.

Today I will revisit a few things people took exception to (very briefly) and will spend most of the show outlining my “modern financial survival guide” for the coming future.

Join Me Today as We Discuss…

  • Is the Catholic Church calling for a “World Bank” and global tax or not
  • What exactly do I mean by a financial war
  • Why do I believe so emphatically that I am right about the coming collapse
  • What I think you need to do to be financially prepared for the future
    • Get rid of debt (especially floating rate debt)
    • Try to save at least 20% of your income (6 months security)
    • Know your exit points for every investment
    • If you are in stocks by only the best companies
    • Do not hold any and I mean any long term bonds
    • Keep an eye on TIPS Bond Yields
    • Remember most “experts” on TV are actually idiots
    • Develop your local community
    • Don’t bet on any government money (specifically @ 100%)
    • Consider land as the best investment (not houses)
    • Increase your financial IQ daily – start with vocabulary
    • Focus on gaining some % of self sufficiency with the 5 needs
    • Try to be as “cash rich” as possible
    • Don’t act in fear, think before you do anything
    • Do not listen to conventional wisdom during unconventional times
    • Remember the prepared can always profit and prosper

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Episode-760- What Have You Done With My Country

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Modern Survival| 53 Comments
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I have a ton of things on my mind after coming back from Salt Lake City based on questions that were asked in the booth.  Many subjects came up but the number one was…

When will the economy collapse and what will that collapse look like?

The people asking this ran the spectrum from tin hat types to normal every day people who were just concerned about their families.  What shocked me the most was I would tell them what I thought, Fernando Aguirre who went though a collapse in Argentina got up on stage and told them what a collapse looks like and our words were almost identical.  Yet most of those asking questions were not very receptive to the answer to their own questions.

Today I am going to go into this subject again, I will discuss the role of the Fed, debt and the elite banking layer play in it and what you must do to be prepared for it.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

  • What ever the TV, novel or guy selling how to stuff says is probably wrong
  • Yes a second “great depression” is bad enough
  • Why the Fed must go and how bad it will hurt at first
  • How money is currently created and how you are taxed with inflation
  • Why a “gold standard” won’t fix the problem
  • The cold hard facts about downward class migration
  • What a 50% inflation rate means to you
  • The coming depression that has already begun
  • Why I believe one last period of false hope will proceed the big crash
  • Why time lines are less important then destinations
  • What you need to start doing right now
    • Reduce debt
    • Reduce expenses
    • Build skill sets
    • Increase self sufficiency percentages
    • Build community
    • Protect your existing assets
    • Become informed about your surroundings
    • Perform a risk assessment
    • Have both bug in and bug out plans
    • Have faith in the future

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Episode-721- Tom Kowitz on the Last 4 US Goverment Defaults

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Modern Survival| 12 Comments
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Tom and his Radio Counterpart Michelle Gaudin

So the main stream media just spent the last 6 months scaring the crap out of everyone in regard to the “debt ceiling crisis”, stating over and over, “for the first time in history the US could default on its debts”.  As the title of today’s show indicates once again the main stream is not just wrong but completely incompetent.

To gain a better perspective of these events and our current financial mess I have enlisted Tom Kowitz of the Baldy and the Blonde Show from WGSO 990 AM in New Orleans to come on TSP and help us gain a greater understanding past defaults and the nation’s economic future.  If you often feel “money isn’t a survival topic”, you need to listen to this show, it will put it in a much more clear perspective for you.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • A bit on our current political nonsense about the debt ceiling
  • Why a AA+ rating of US credit is a joke
  • The history of currency changes and defaults in the last 100 years
    • 1913  Federal Reserve Act (from hell)
    • 1933 Confiscation of gold, and the federal government’s refusal to honor the gold clause in its bond contracts (this was a full-on default); Federal Reserve Notes now redeemable for silver instead of gold.
    • 1945 Bretton Woods Agreement established the dollar as the world’s reserve currency and the only currency convertible into gold (which means massive amounts of U.S. dollars had to be exported, which is precisely what happened in the few years after WWII)
    • 1965 The Coinage Act of 1965 eliminated silver from US coins (except half dollars, where silver content was cut from 90 percent to 40 percent) and gave us the junk we’re using today. (Default on all coinage)
    • 1968 Silver Certificates no longer redeemable for silver (another default)
    • 1969 Special Drawing Rights created by the IMF (1 SDR = 1 US dollar). SDR’s were created in part because of the concern that the U.S. wasn’t circulating enough dollars, and without a LOT of dollars out there, the dollar could not serve as the reserve currency.
    • 1971 Nixon closes the gold window; foreign central banks can no longer convert dollars into gold. This seems to me to be another default. There were way too many dollars out there. (Full on default by the US to the entire world)
    • 1978 IMF establishes a goal of making the SDR the principal reserve asset in the international monetary system. They straight-up announced their plan to put the entire world on a new monetary system.

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