Tuesday June 1 2010
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Our thanks to Roxanne Griswold and James Wesley, Rawles
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Sea Salt–An Indispensable Commodity for Uncertain Times, by Roxanne Griswold
When we think about setting aside emergency supplies, most of us would agree that preserved food and purified water are the essentials and everything else is secondary to these. [...]
Friday May 28 2010
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Our thanks to consumer advocate Clark Howard
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Don’t accept or carry anything larger than a $20 bill
RIP-OFF ALERT: Clark Howard has a rule: He never carries anything larger than a $20 bill. Why? Because bills larger than that have a much higher chance of being counterfeit.
The Los Angeles [...]
Thursday May 27 2010
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Tuesday May 25 2010
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Our thanks to SurvivalBlog.com
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I would like your thoughts on something. I have been stocking up on silver for many years, but I’m wondering what you think will happen to the value of it at TEOTWAWKI(the end of the world as we know it). Here is my thinking, right now silver [...]
Sunday May 16 2010
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Our thanks to Tod and Tod.fm
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An Unusual Way to Beat Inflation
By Tod
Inflation has all kinds of interesting consequences, and one of them is that you can sometimes profit from the distortions it creates. I’ll explain how to do that in an unusual way. You can actually take $100 worth [...]
Friday May 14 2010
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Our thanks to SteveQuayle.com
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Comment from BeFree: We here at BeFree are not alarmist thinking, and are very positive forward thinkers, but we feel it is very important to be prepared for anything.
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Today, millions of Americans say that they believe that the United States is on the verge of a major economic [...]
Tuesday May 11 2010
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Tuesday May 11 2010
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Our thanks to Paul B. Farrell and MarketWatch
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Six investing rules for a worst-case scenario
Surviving the End of Civilization 2050
ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) — So Congress enacts financial reforms. Big deal. Wall Street must be drunk on Dom Perignon, celebrating the huge paid-offs from their successful $400 million [...]
Sunday May 2 2010
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iFixit: Welcome to Repair 2.0
Fixing the global e-waste problem
iFixit co-founder Kyle Wiens discusses the impact of careless e-waste and what they are doing to help.
Our thanks to consumer advocate Clark Howard.
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For us do-it-yourselfer’s, there’s a website to learn about: ifixit.com. This site gives us detailed instructions on how to fix [...]