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survival

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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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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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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What I Learned About the Economy From Watching Food, Inc. (dir. Robert Kenner, 2009)

June 30, 2009 · 17 comments

in agriculture, business, capitalism, commodities, economy, films, health, infrastructure, nutrition, survival

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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Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life – by Neil Strauss (Review)

June 25, 2009 · 13 comments

in achievement, education, emergencies, self-protection, skills, survival, wealth protection

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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Save Tons of Money By Eating Super Foods – The Minimal Amount of Food Necessary

June 22, 2009 · 25 comments

in discipline, financial fitness, frugal tips, health, lifestyle design, nutrition, savings, survival, weight loss

This is a fun problem I’ve thought about in the past, though never specifically with regard to money.  With the recent personal finance bloggers’ weight loss challenge I’m participating in, though, I thought it made sense to try to integrate it with money management.
I once went on a very strict no-sugar diet (no sweeteners, no [...]

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