You're sitting there just finishing off your last can of baked beans. They're cold, of course, because your fuel ran out a year ago.
It's been three years in that hole, with no instructions over the radio from the army, and nobody banging on the ...
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Your Basic Preppers’ List for the Apocalypse
The other day I got a note from one of my readers asking me to expound on my Economic Collapse 101 article entitled Ten Ways to Prepare for the Unknown. In short, he wanted a more-detailed basic preppers' list of what to have if things really go ...
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Mailbag: How to Sell Your Gold and Silver
Hi Len, I read in your blog that you recommend APMEX for buying precious metals. I've saved money to buy some bullion and I'm ready to invest! I'm just having trouble researching how to sell my gold and silver when the time comes. Can you shed some ...
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Hyperinflation Facts: 18 Strange Things You Probably Don’t Know
The US National Debt recently surpassed $35 trillion. Not surprisingly, the world is finally losing faith in our currency, as evidenced by the emergence of the BRICS trading bloc and its intention to introduce a new currency based on gold and, ...
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Mailbag: Should I Contribute to the 401k or Save for a Home?
I have been doing financial research and would love your opinion. I'm a young stay-at-home mom, and my husband just graduated from college. He got a great job within a few months of graduating, and we are looking toward buying a home. His job, also ...
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How Much Gold and Silver Should People Own?
Ever since I started writing about the importance of owning physical gold and silver as insurance against the inevitable failure of the US dollar, I've been receiving an increasing volume of questions in my inbox from folks curious to know more about ...
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The Difference Between Real Wealth and Paper Wealth
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and ...
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The Most Important Insurance We Never Buy
It's ironic, but bankers and fiscally irresponsible governments despise gold and silver. Why? Because precious metals demand accountability, that's why.
In short, gold-backed currencies force responsible governments to live within their ...
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Why Paying Off the Mortgage Early May Be a Big Mistake
Should you pay off the mortgage early? That question is, without any doubt, the most popular question posed by my readers. And sure enough, the other day I received this note from Lauren regarding the wisdom of paying down the mortgage early:
Len: ...
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When Is the Right Time to Use Your Wealth Insurance (Gold & Silver)?
Many people who understand that our current unsustainable debt-based monetary system is in its death throes protect their hard-earned nest eggs by purchasing physical gold and silver. Ironically, many are understandably uncertain about the right time ...
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The End of the Dollar: Exponential Curves and the Illusion of Safety
Perhaps the most deceiving force in the entire universe is the exponential function. It's not surprising when people insist that my warnings about the end of the debt-based dollar monetary system are nonsense. Usually they argue that it's because ...
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100 Words On: A Guaranteed Way to Preserve Your Wealth
Fiat-based paper currencies facilitate commerce by acting as a medium of exchange that's far preferable to bartering. Unfortunately, governments that wish to spend beyond their means can -- and do -- print fiat with impunity, thereby leading to ...
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Silver and Gold: The Superheroes of Wealth Preservation
Back in 1964, a gallon of gasoline cost about 25 cents in the United States. That's right. Believe it or not, way back in 1964, you could buy a gallon of gas for a quarter.
It just so happens that 1964 was the last year that the US Treasury minted ...
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5 Strategies for Protecting Your 401(k) Savings from Economic Collapse
After more than a decade of the Fed's reckless monetary policies -- in particular, persistent near-zero interest rates and their relentless de facto currency-printing campaign better known as "quantitative easing" -- the financial system has been so ...
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Economic Collapse 101: How to Prepare for Water Supply Disruptions
Clean running water is something we all take for granted. After all, there's nothing easier than going to the nearest tap, turning the handle, and being instantly greeted with as much potable water as you can drink.
Water is ridiculously cheap ...
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Grandfather Says: Preparing for Hard Times
Grandfather says he thinks there are some tough years ahead.
He says be creative and live better as those years go by.
B F Goodrich & Co. built a specialty rubber plant here, fabricating mostly aircraft and military equipment, about 50 ...
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Brazilian Hyperinflation: A Reader Explains What Life Was Like
(Readers: In 1990, inflation in Brazil was running at 3000% per year. At that rate, a loaf of bread that cost $3 on New Year's Day would cost $93 by December 31. With that in mind, one of my readers, Leasi, had told me that she lived in Brazil during ...
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How to Manage Your Finances During a Depression
By all measures, it has been a bad month for the American economy. Whether or not we're about to enter a deep full-scale recession -- or possibly even a depression -- isn't quite clear yet. However, it's fairly obvious that the coronavirus pandemic ...
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Economic Collapse 101: Ten Ways to Prepare for the Unknown
Most folks are really good about making sure they have the proper amount of insurance for their home and automobiles. But when it comes to ensuring the survival of their family in rough economic times, well ... not so much.
It's no secret that ...
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Comparing the Costs of Various Emergency Food Supply Options
Sometimes it's not easy being an ant. Especially when you're living among a bunch of grasshoppers.
There's a well-known Aesop fable about an oblivious grasshopper who spent his summer days living the high life and mocking an industrious ant, who ...
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