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survival

The fact of the matter is that at the end of the day not even the economists fully foresee or even understand (let alone agree on what they do understand) the full implications and progression of the state of the current world financial system.
Another fact is obvious: the global financial system is so interconnected and [...]

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On April 27, 2010, Standard & Poor’s downgraded Greece’s credit rating to junk status – meaning that it is unlikely Greece can pay back its creditors, which means that it is not worth it for the hypothetical investor to invest in Greece.
The same day, the USD spiked and the Euro and other currencies fell a [...]

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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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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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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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NB: As you can imagine from watching a film like Food, Inc., it can be hard to separate the emotion and just report “calmly” on the plain facts presented by the film.  Originally I wrote this the same day I saw it, but I’ve since gone back and edited it to try to tone down [...]

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This book might indeed save your life.
Survival schools.  Second passports.  Urban Escape and Evasion courses.  CERT training.  Bugging out.  How to escape from attack dogs.  Offshore asset protection.  Perpetual traveling.  Using one’s credit card as a knife.  Killing and skinning your own goat.  These are just some of the survivalist, “how-to-be-prepared-for-anything” topics covered in Neil [...]

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