Month: September 2009

If politicians had spines.

If politicians had spines.

The presupposition in the headline is, of course, blatantly ridiculous. Politicians do not have spines. They might have been born with them, like normal human beings but, at the...

#1 – Welcome To Holistic Survival

Welcome to Holistic Survival: Your Insurance for a Better Life Wars continue to flare with frightening regularity around the world. Global financial markets, once sedate and...

Things beginning to look up? Uh, no.

Things beginning to look up? Uh, no.

The Obama administration would have us believe that the worst of the recession is past and solid signs of recovery are lurk just around the corner. That must be a pretty darn big...

Cash flow is king.

Cash flow is king.

Maybe you count yourself among the millions of hard-working Americans who have had their 401k or other nest egg accounts dog-slapped by the economy of the last two years. We’re...

China’s not getting smaller.

China’s not getting smaller.

Part of being a modern survivalist is having the foresight to look at what’s happening around you economically, make an educated guess about where events are headed, and adjust...

The future of government economics?

We’ve discussed the possibility that states may begin to file bankruptcy, with first on the docket seeming to be California. What does a bankrupt state look like before it goes...

The quicksand of lending to relatives.

While some people are still doing fine financially, others are hurting. There’s no doubt about that. In these uncertain times, it can become tempting to make an informal personal...

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