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The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money

January 25, 2010 · 5 comments

in Asia, China, G20, Latin America, US economy, capitalism, central banks, economics, economy, emerging markets, foreign investment, future, international economy, politics, preparedness, protectionism, reviews, wealth transfer, world order

As soon as I saw this title on the bookshelf, it caught my eye.  Since I’ve been trying to curb my spending, I just skimmed it and put it back.  Well, I returned a week later and decided to buy it after skimming it again.
I’m not finished with the book yet (although it’s just a [...]

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Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller – Jeff Rubin (Review)

July 6, 2009 · 21 comments

in books, commodities, energy, environment, international economy, oil, reviews, sustainability

Are you liking the new frugality trend?  Get used to it.  Frugality is “in” and here to stay – but not because the U.S. housing and credit markets collapsed and 30% of everyone’s savings have disappeared.  According to Jeff Rubin, ex-senior economist at CIBC World Markets, the growing scarcity in the world’s fossil fuels supply [...]

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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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Career Renegade by Jonathan Fields – Book Review (Part 2)

May 28, 2009 · 3 comments

in achievement, books, careers, lifehack, self-employed

May 26th, 2009: I couldn’t get to sleep last night because of this book.  (read part 1 of the review here) It just had me completely wound up in all the possibilities that exist for us to really take control of our lives.  The world is changing.  The old models of education, learning, teaching, publishing, [...]

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Career Renegade: How To Make a Great Living Doing What You Love by Jonathan Fields – A Review

May 26, 2009 · 5 comments

in achievement, careers, lifestyle design, self-employed

May 24, 2009 (aft).  I’m out enjoying the Sunday long-weekend sunshine and walking along, I get sucked into a Barnes & Noble.  I decide I’m going in to buy a copy of the Four-Hour Work Week for my Dad for Father’s Day, but on my way to the business section, I see a copy of [...]

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