Some people may tune out any talk of inflation, chalking its presence in the media up to fear-mongering (a handy scapegoat!) or laughable economic miscomprehension. “Why worry about inflation, when deflation is clearly the threat?,” so many commentators cried a few months ago. But if all one cares about is the short-term, then one won’t [...]
Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life - by Neil Strauss (Review)
June 25, 2009
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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 [...]
With globalization 2.0, worldwide financial markets have become so much more intricately connected and symbiotic - literally thriving at the edge of chaos - that seemingly small things can now tip them into turmoil. The events of late 2008 in particular attest to this. For example:
an economics prof I talk to said “throw your textbooks [...]
Some people think it’s crazy to worry about hyperinflation. But in reality, we don’t have to see a repeat of Argentina or Germany to experience the results of hyperinflation. If most global currencies inflate along with the US, the hyperinflation could easily be disguised. We’re still in a good bear market rally as of June [...]