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Five Things You Should Have In Your Emergency Cash Stash at Home

February 17, 2010 · 5 comments

in diversification, emergencies, emergency fund, emergency kits, financial planning, lifehack, money lessons, preparedness, savings, self-protection, survival, wealth protection

My wallet was stolen from me recently.  I was pickpocketed in the plain of day in the middle of crowds in an urban transit station.  I didn’t hear, feel or notice a thing.  Suffice it to say, this identity theft can obviously happen to anyone.
Luckily, I’d previously heeded the good advice of not keeping all [...]

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Tips For Locking Yourself Out of Your Apartment In Style – What You Hope You Have If Your Keys or the Landlord is Lost

January 25, 2010 · 4 comments

in emergencies, life, preparedness, self-protection

I locked myself out of my own apartment the other day.  Because I rent, I am not allowed to duplicate the keys, so I don’t have duplicates.  Because it was the weekend, my landlord was out of town and not due back until Monday morning.
Luckily, the situation fixed itself fairly quickly, but it did get [...]

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Survival Skills To Barter With In Case of Financial Ruin, Unemployment, or Economic Collapse

January 15, 2010 · 10 comments

in diversification, economy, education, emergencies, lifehack, market crash, risk, self-protection, survival, sustainability, unemployment, wealth protection, world order

Do your “transferable skills” include survival skills?  If you work in financial markets, accounting, tourism, real estate, university-level teaching (certain fields), administration, human resources, and a number of other fields whose central activities are not connected in any real way to the basic “stuff” of living, it is more likely that you are lacking in [...]

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Remaining Problems That Could Cause A Second Stock Market Crash in 2010-2011

November 8, 2009 · 14 comments

in US economy, VIX volatility, economy, emergencies, financial fitness, layoffs, market bottom, market crash, news and updates, recession

I’m an extremely cautious bull on the current markets.  Cautious, because, if a few criteria are met, the mini bull market (or bear market rally, if you prefer) we’ve seen since March 2009 could easily tip over and provide the catalyst for the hypothetical “double-dip recession.”
Commentators have recently been pointing out the fact that the [...]

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10 Secret Places For Storing Your Gold

October 19, 2009 · 18 comments

in commodities, emergencies, financial planning, gold, money decisions, organization, precious metals, wealth protection

You might have some places around the house where you keep some extra cash “just in case,” but these places may not work equally well for storing and hiding your gold.  Besides, there may be good reasons for not storing your gold in just the same place you store your cash.  “Don’t keep all your [...]

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Reasons You Will Need Extra Cash For Finishing Your Master’s or PhD Thesis

September 22, 2009 · 1 comment

in education, emergencies, emergency fund, financial planning, grad school, savings, students

Planning your graduate career, or just looking ahead to being on the home stretch and getting that thesis out of the way? Don’t just count on the funding you might get from your program or teaching/research assignment. Writing a thesis is the perfect situation for which you should have a solid emergency fund in place.
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What To Do With Your Money Just In Case Trends Forecaster Gerald Celente Is Right

August 3, 2009 · 12 comments

in US debt, US dollar, US economy, economy, emergencies, financial planning, hyperinflation, survival, wealth protection

N.B., Acknowledging the fact that some Americans probably think Gerald Celente is a nut – those who are familiar with him at all – just as, for many people, Peter Schiff is seen as an extremist or nut – I think that, given their analytic track records – which you have to admit, have been [...]

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