This summer’s driving season looks to be the most expensive one in years, as gas prices around the country continue to rise. The period between Memorial Day and Labor Day …
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If you think it’s getting more and more expensive every year to maintain your current standard of living, that’s because it is. From housing to education to food, everything is …
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The coming major global crisis is not what you think it is. It isn’t climate change, it isn’t war, or poverty, or any one specific issue. It goes much deeper …
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The Federal Reserve and many of the world’s other central banks set “inflation targets.” They do this in order to to achieve their goals of “full employment and price stability.” …
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The US government borrowed a record high amount of money in the first quarter of 2018 – $488 billion. That’s not an encouraging sign that the federal government will get …
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No one wants to talk about how unprecedented and abnormal the financial conditions we currently are in truly are. Governments, central banks, corporate and state-influenced media, and all of the …
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The past few decades have seen an enormous appreciation in the price of housing in the United States. Periodic pin pricks that have burst the housing bubble at times have …
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The popular belief among mainstream investors, financial institutions, and financial news outlets is that interest rate increases are bearish for gold prices. The logic goes that as interest rates rise, …
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The Federal Reserve lives in bizarro world, where up is down, black is white, and everything is inverted. Specifically what I mean is that the Federal Reserve talks about low …
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While stocking up on supplies and learning useful skills is an important part of prepping, that isn’t the be-all and end-all of survival preparation. There are plenty of intangibles that …