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Category Archives: Advice
Dmitry Orlov: How Russians survived the collapse of the Soviet Union
This is one of the best articles I’ve read about what collapse may be like, the best strategies to survive, and why the Russian way of life and culture prepared them far better for hard times than America. Related posts … Continue reading
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Book list: What to do
I am not an expert on peak oil survival. There are plenty of websites and books devoted to that! I’ve read a lot of posts at runningonempty and other such sites. Over the years I’ve begun to think that collapse … Continue reading
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What we knew about the energy crisis back in 1977
A friend of mine found this yesterday in one of her folders from college. If seems like even more Americans are ignorant and blindly techno-optimist today than they were 40 years ago. The last item of how we might proceed … Continue reading
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Charles Hugh Smith: How To Find Shelter From The Coming Storms?
How To Find Shelter From The Coming Storms? by Charles Hugh Smith Some basic suggestions for those who are seeking shelter from the coming storms of global financial crisis and recession. Reader Andy recently wrote: “I look forward to your … Continue reading
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29 Things to Keep in Mind about buying Real Estate
This is an edited down version of 30 Reasons To Get Out Of Real Estate And Into REAL Assets by “Don’t Tread on Me” at businessinsider.com. The shift from paper assets to real assets is driven by money/debt creation. Since … Continue reading
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Disarray by James Howard Kunstler
Feb 21, 2008 DISARRAY by James Howard Kunstler The dark tunnel that the U.S. economy has entered began to look more and more like a black hole recently, sucking in lives, fortunes, and prospects behind a Potemkin facade of orderly … Continue reading
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Cash is King in a deflation — but there are dangers
Risk 1: Capital controls Restrictions on bank withdrawals (no ATM withdrawals, no bill payments, etc) Restrictions on money market fund redemptions Greater restrictions on retirement fund liquidations Fixing an official exchange rate and criminalizing market rate transactions Banning the conversion … Continue reading
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Why Treasury Bills are likely to be safe for at least a few years
my comment: SHORT-TERM 4-week or 13-week treasury BILLS that is Apr 19, 2012 Ilargi at the automaticearth.com Mauldin: unproductive government debt is killing us. So we either make some big, tough collective decisions, and make them soon; or we come … Continue reading
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Investing – random advice that may be great or awful
Be sure to read Nicole Foss and Gail Tverberg to understand the deflationary situation we’re in since investing for deflation is different from inflation. You Gotta Eat Fertilizer stocks. MOS, etc. They’re the most volatile Viterra (VT:tsx) and Alliance Grain … Continue reading
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Have Cash by Nicole Foss July 3, 2010
Since we at The Automatic Earth generally tell people to hold cash or cash equivalents, it makes sense to expand on that a little, and to point out some of the location-specific risks of doing so. Eventually you should get … Continue reading
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