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Edition 149 - Financial and Physical Survival Edition - 05 October 2008
- How to survive when the shit hits the fan – edition
- First a comment on the reaction to the bailout
- Gold and silver prices
- What can one do if the electronic money system has trouble
- Electronic statements
- About safes
- Storable food
- Generators
- A nice, inexpensive and dependable home power system with battery back up
- Bling
- Unintended consequences of bailout
- Archives
Edition 302 - 13 May 2012
- Headwinds will challenge markets
- Socialism in EU
- Gold testing lows
- QE 3 soon?
- Fed Jawbone
- Opportunity here IF…
Edition 301 - 29 April 2012
- US Fed stays pat. Dow and DJW rally a bit
- Gold USD HUI
- Copper
- Argument comparing CRB reaction to stimulus vs stocks
- Fed ‘Kreminology’
- Markets in kind of a hold pattern. French election.
- High Frequency trading, market volatility
Edition 300 - 22 April 2012
- Intro
- Toppy markets
- Copper
- Dow and DJW
- Danger is high now
- Start using the economic ‘Depression’ word in the EU
Edition 299 - 15 April 2012
- Markets topping, Bernanke Put, diminishing returns, synchronization, Spain, Greece etc.
- Diminishing returns
- How far away is this?
- Gold and metals here
- Currencies
Edition 298 - 08 April 2012
- Some of our best predictions in the last year…Gold USD CRB Silver DJW and Dow
- EU debt situation
- Mid-East situation
Edition 297 - 01 April 2012
- Black box markets
- Economic boom ended finally in China (aside from the propaganda)
- Hyping China as usual
- US and world markets on life support
- Gold price range
- USD, Euro, Yen and Yuan
Edition 296 - 18 March 2012
- Gold continues general down trend
- Dow and DJW tests
- US Propaganda rally
- Flight to US assets and USD
- Relative Dow
Edition 295 - 11 March 2012
- Currency wars – sort of
- Currency trends
- Mid East situation and gold and USD and oil
Edition 293 - 26 February 2012
- Iran rallies gold and oil
- USD update
- Looking at a few markets: CRB Gold Oil USD
- USD gold
Edition 292 - 12 February 2012
- Intro
- Stimulus vs Economy slowdown
- Gold price range
- Successive stimulus rallies
- Mid East update
- Strategy
Edition 291 - 05 February 2012
- Dow rally and Fed Stimulus Dec announcement – and DJW
- The bullish case
- Holding up the Euro
- Flat jobs market in the US
Edition 290 - 22 January 2012
- Intro
- Election rally?
- Gold is not a universal solution
- Why a USD crisis could outlaw gold
- Maybe better to own rather than save?
- And for a prophecy comment
Edition 289 - 15 January 2012
- Intro
- USD Gold Commods
- 2012 stuff
- Mid-East
- Stock crash
- Rising USD
- CRB comments
Edition 288 - 08 January 2012
- Gold prices
- Fundamental economic change
- Confiscation question
- Euro
- Commodity rally eh?
- Volcker and the 1979/80 gold and silver bull
- General picture on gold USD and the CRB
Edition 286 - 18 December 2011
- Gold selloff and commodity discussion
- The EURO
- Gold
- Copper and deflation
- Holiday special
Edition 285 - 11 December 2011
- Intro
- Mid East Special report
- Mid East proxy battles
- Nuclear proliferation in general
- 2012 stuff
- Remember its 90 pct mental
- Oil USD General Commodities CAD AUD YEN Yuan Euro
- Australia vs Canada and the resource markets
- China, India and so called emerging markets
- Euro anomaly
Edition 284 - 04 December 2011
- Intro
- EU in financial meltdown
- Deflationary pressures
- Misleading financial news
- ‘Emerging’ markets
- World stock Charts
- Tech stocks
Edition 283 - 27 November 2011
- Overall markets
- Commodities are not a haven now
- Euro situation
- China and commodities
Edition 282 - 20 November 2011
- Gold price in the future and China slowdown
- Trouble at the commodity markets
- General commodity alert
- Europe and the Mid East mess
Edition 280 - 30 October 2011
- Old money and banking system creaking and dying a slow death.
- EU debt summit
- When will the bank crisis come?
- Link to Serbia article
- 1.4 T bailout funds from Brics? Laugh
- The Great Change
- Social media
Edition 279 - 23 October 2011
- Coming EU summit
- As a bit of a lighter break, but check this out – great ideas on frugal living
- Frugality, that small monthly expense you can cut is the same as a huge savings account! It is all about cash flow!
Edition 278 - 09 October 2011
- Bank crisis heating up
- Likely a severe economic depression unfolding.
- Commodity leverage
- Mid-East
- Careful of this March on Wall Street
Edition 277 - 02 October 2011
- Intro
- Stop speculating NOW.
- Huge changes in the world
- Simple computer skills equated with knowledge? Laugh.
- Soylent Green is not scifi or was it? Um Ya.
- Tech can easily solve the problems, BUT…
- Latest ‘update’ on the farm
- Disaster 101 – more than one residence
- No religion? OOOO KAY….
Edition 275 - 17 September 2011
- Well now. What a week this last one was.
- The Yen and USD are still linked directly more or less and the BOJ and Fed have the USD backed up.
- That’s heresy to the gold bug community but I don’t care. Gold holding well too.
- That is a resource related sell down.
- USD forming huge base?
- The EU debt crisis is a definite harbinger or causation.
Edition 274 - 07 August 2011
- Markets crash this week
- Crazy interday volatility hanging on every headline.
- A theoretical problem I have been working on with markets – it has a definite end
- Everyone more or less on the same level technically on the internet
- Money and banks in a final world economy
- Globalists bleeding jobs from West
- 20 to 40 pct. of US college grads cannot find jobs at all!
- Black horse
- Christian Newsletter, Christian-Insight
Edition 273 - 31 July 2011
- Intro
- BDI
- It’s already a depression by employment stats
- Stop all unnecessary spending
- Wage arbitrage (the ‘new economy’)
- Communism coming to the EU
- Structural economic changes (not just debt)
- What stood in the way so far
- Two big things coming down
- A survival stash
- US debt situation
Edition 272 - 17 July 2011
- Intro
- US Debt ceiling dangers and the EU bank crisis
- Possible outcomes from a US Default on markets
- Will the USD survive its first test in the bond markets?
- USD pairs
- 1929 and now and USD
- Bank 101
- Would you believe the EU might disintegrate like the Mid-East???
- War in the ME pending in the fall
Edition 271 - 10 July 2011
- Intro
- Change? I’ll give you some effen change buddy!
- It happens very fast, now
- The Malthus crisis
- Must win
- The collapsing ring
- The century of survival
- USA made a big mistake
- History’s end
- Totally oblivious
- World banking crisis on threshold
- Prices for next week:
Edition 270 - 27 June 2011
- Crash Developing
- Our Changing Times, Special report on technology and the world population bomb
- Things are not like when we grew up
- The most trying and dangerous time of all history
- Technology and world population growth
- Old order – destabilization – New order
- Technical dictatorship
- The 7 earths
- The population crisis is on!
- Bloody war for survival
- GBP to USD transition
- And the world will fall apart
- Understanding is half the solution
Edition 268 - 12 June 2011
- Markets dropping and an end to massive public treasury support world wide
- Warning: BIG USD base
- What could be the effects of a long USD rally? And then what could be the effects if the USD has a bad Summer on the other hand?
- A monster crash is very possible
- They bought everything…everything!
- Gold stocks vs. Gold prices
- US election cycle
Edition 267 - 05 June 2011
- Market bowl top?
- QE
- Ambiguous circumstances
- What if a huge crash is coming will you be ok?
- This IS a depression
- By word for now
- Gold, silver USD Euro Yen
Edition 266 - 22 May 2011
- Intro
- Warning on US Budget and bonds
- Just a matter of time now for EU
- Gold, Silver targets
- Dow
Edition 265 - 15 May 2011
- Gold and silver settle a bit
- Gold and silver caution
- USD stuff
- Our crash alerts
- If there was a huge crash in stocks, would you be intact or not?
- Euro
- CAD AUD
- Speculation
- Don’t be seduced
- Country living in a crisis
- Could the US and West actually face economic collapse and food panics?
- Mid East
Edition 264 - 08 May 2011
- Quite a week in commodities, metals and the USD and CRB
- Euro
- CHAOS
- Yen *
- Yen ‘Death Star’
- China and India interest rates
- USD/Yen USD/Yuan USD/Euro
- My gold and silver targets this week
- Metals and general commodities here
- Our alerts
- Renewals
Edition 263 - 01 May 2011
- Market technical comments vs the chaos
- But chaos reigns supreme right now…
- Dow rally could continue past Summer – Maybe big transition in effect
- USD nearing an important test
- The prices now compared to the peaks in 1980
Edition 262 - 17 April 2011
- Markets and events in the Middle East, gold and silver bubble
- Lot of similarities to the 1970s and also not
- US stocks
- Oil
- Other commodities and metals etc.
- Food crisis continues
- Stability premium
- USD crash first or gold correction first?
Edition 261 - 10 April 2011
- USD and 2012 questions
- Metals and USD right now
- 2012 stuff won’t go away
- The USD role in 2012?
- US rollover is $3 trillion a year, US fiscal deficit is $2 trillion a year = US debt burden for 2011 of $5 trillion of US bonds??
- USD fall by accident or ‘plan’ what is the difference?
- Markets in a pickle
- Lots of new leaders taking the world stage
- What perfect timing! What a ‘coincidence’
- US reaching known critical debt level
- Combining prophecies creates a psychological mood
- But there is another market scenario for Summer too
Edition 260 - 03 April 2011
- Intro
- My views on gold and silver firstly
- Interest rates
- Food prices
- Speculation
- AntiChrist situation
- Japan crisis filling biblical prophecies in a way
- Time is short
- Other newsletters talking about leaving the US
Edition 259 - 20 March 2011
- Intro
- Japan reactors in partial meltdown.
- Automakers halt shipments from Japan and parts shortage appears.
- Food, gas, water in shortage in Japan and Tokyo.
- US FED intervenes in currency markets to support the USD V Yen
- Goldman Sachs fires 2000
- Implications of deindustrialization
- Mental aspects – stress
- Your countermeasures
- Expat! NOT
Edition 258 - 13 March 2011
- Japan situation very unpredictable
- Prophesy and today’s events
- Commodity markets definitely follow religious issues in the ME for example
- Japan Tsunami and markets
Edition 257 - 06 March 2011
- Mid East Oil and gold
- Entire new Middle East chessboard
- Prophetic relations
- This is bigger than 911 historically
- Africa
- Asia to split over resource competition
- US Stocks
Edition 256 - 26 February 2011
- Geo Political revolt will cause commodity turmoil
- Gold and Silver here
- US is a haven?
- Why this stock strategy
Edition 255 - 20 February 2011
- World being remade
- Markets
- Gold and silver
- China
- Mid East
- US coming tech rebirth
- Areas for your kids to study
- Self employment
Edition 254 - 13 February 2011
- Introduction
- Gold
- USD
- Euro
- China Interest rates
- Dow
- Tech stocks
- Market synchronisation
- Food and commodity stocks
- S and P
- US technical leadership
- New Christian Newsletter
Edition 253 - 06 February 2011
- Middle East, prophetic implications
- Now a few prophesy related comments on this new situation.
- A really weird development
- Provocative?
- But lets get back to some comments on markets.
Edition 252 - 30 January 2011
- Chaos in Egypt
- Bearish Stocks
- Monday opening
- Food crisis doesn’t help
- Gold USD Euro
Edition 251 - 23 January 2011
- Can the Yuan and USD rally together?
- So where will gold go in 2011?
- Copper
- Some charts:
- Oil
- Dow
Edition 250 - 16 January 2011
- Intro
- Food crisis -again
- ‘Country living’
- Overall picture for investors from my point of view next several years
Edition 249 - 09 January 2011
- Concentration of wealth leads to depressions and technology combined with that leads to revoultions.
- Demographic bomb
- Dissafected college students
- Wealth concentration – deadly
- Asian markets vs the US
- Gold, USD, Oil
Edition 248 - 02 January 2011
- Happy New Year!
- Special prophecy report – the EU situation
- End of the Nation state and prophecy updates
- 3 European political centers
- A simple mathematical certainty
- Unified Europe
- We are Roman
- Technology and world government
- The time is now
Edition 247 - 26 December 2010
- China Raises
- Time wise on market crash
- Savings, investments or what?
- Markets for the next two months
- Japan and the US Central banks – world CB
Edition 246 - 19 December 2010
- Rising interest rates – what might we expect?
- The Plaza Accord
- China interest rate hike due
- Korea
- My positions
- Oil
- Shanghai and other “emerging markets”
Edition 245 - 12 December 2010
- Hedge fund/fund markets
- Real damage in Great depression came after the crashes
- And... Hedge Funds short China???
- A confidence problem
Edition 244 - 05 December 2010
- Intro
- More EU distress
- Short and medium term USD and Gold
- EU crisis
- What can happen if the EU and Euro start to really fall apart?
- US Central bank to the world?
- ECB cannot act unilaterally
- Internet stocks
- A new investment horizon
- Christmas rally?
Edition 243 - 28 November 2010
- Filtering crisis noise on gold and the USD
- A market snapshot with a flight to safety filter
- Gold should be stronger? Yes and no
- Comments on Ireland, EU, Korea
Edition 242 - 21 November 2010
- Gold volatility
- Stagflation
- Oil
- Flat markets in the next decade?
- End of the nation or nation state
- Globalization and Ireland
- Globalization is not going away
- Prognosticating on the one world government and about what is happening now based on the Bible
Edition 241 - 14 November 2010
- Intro
- Gold volatility
- G20 and Obama
- High yield, corporate bonds and EU Sovereign debt
- Asian markets
- Los Angeles missile
- New China US tenor
- Dangerous markets
- Irish bonds
- Overall markets
- Looking forward
- Caution on conspiracy media
Edition 240 - 07 November 2010
- Reflation trade
- Odds of a stock crash
- Resource wars
- 2011 prospects
- Can QE stave off deflation
- Trade, Currency, and resources
- Germany and the EU and the Euro
- G20 comments and major issues
- US policy with new Congress
Edition 239 - 31 October 2010
- Intro
- Will US QE work?
- Trade and currency disputes are new force
- The Gold and Currency picture next year
- Debt Deflation
- My bouncing ball market model
- More Gold comments
- Our strategy
Edition 238 - 25 October 2010
- Intro
- New World economic alignment
- USD stranglehold
- 2012 is looming
- The economic and political beast
- Who is going to have the first real new crisis?
- End of 2010 and 2011 are key years for the new world economy
- Market prospects, Gold, USD, Euro, Yen, resource stocks
- Gold prospects
Edition 237 - 18 October 2010
- Regarding gold as a currency, USD and others
- Is the world about to enter major currency instability? And gold to skyrocket?
- My overall take on markets right now
- Investment possibilities
Edition 236 - 11 October 2010
- Gold and USD and oil
- K Wave here
- 1907 and now
- QE and competitive currency devaluation
Edition 235 - 04 October 2010
- Intro
- Aint gonna have an entire world of 7 billion living like the US babes…
- Some quick historical background on the US, the UK and the West
- Deflation and more
- Warning to food speculators
- Forecast for Christmas etc
- USD readjustment
Edition 234 - 27 September 2010
- Markets
- Gold
- Oil
- Spiritual take on the Mid East
- U.S.
- Stocks
- European markets
Edition 233 - 19 September 2010
- Overview
- China and the Western economies
- Same with gold stocks.
- Europe and their export economies
- USD and Yen should hold up
- Resource countries
Edition 232 - 12 September 2010
- Intro
- Now then. Gold.
- Bond bubbles to continue
- On the war drumbeat
- On the US political front
Edition 231 - 22 August 2010
- Well off to the races -
- Large developments regarding the Mid East turmoil/strife/ controversy.
- Continuing...
Edition 230 - 15 August 2010
- nl notes
- Recent Calls were good
- Euro prospects
- CAD AUD Prospects
- World economic prospects
- US Autos and Autos prospects
- China Prospects
- Two Chinas
- Media today, Information credibility
- Food related markets
- Actionable items - Prospects
Edition 229 - 03 August 2010
- Intro
- The present crisis or bubble and the deleveraging problem afterward we all face now, in 2010.
- Today in 2010
- Let me make a few more comments about today, 2010.
- Globalization is NOT the answer completely
- Some comments to my readers at Prudent Squirrell on specific strategies to both survive and also hopefully get some of your hard earned savings past this crisis period, so you can emerge after....things settle down.
- moving on
- Unemployment benefits - a KEY ISSUE
- My layoff experience well before all this
- The US Treasury and Big bank bailouts
Edition 226 - 20 June 2010
- Markets
- New Economic order is coming
- What about real things and not gold?
- Security and fences
- Security is a mindset
Edition 225 - 13 June 2010
- Markets now, and in end of June
- Horizontal volatility is due to uncertainty
- But going forward…to end of June early July
- Present market situation
- Both are true…
- The end of June will be a big test for several reasons:
- An important point to be made is the EU bailout is only scratching the surface
Edition 224 - 06 June 2010
- The Evolution of the crash – this week
- Gold in Euros and USD
- Havens right now – Very few if any
- Buyers strike first, crash later
- Sooner or later crash?
- Formula for a gold selloff
- Much the same as 07 and 08 and one key difference
- How will this coming crash happen?
- Last Friday was a huge sentiment killer and there isn’t much left
- US a haven???
- And then what, a USD crisis????
- On debt now
- Prophetic implications
- The burdensome stone
Edition 223 - 30 May 2010
- Overall market situation to Fall season
- Next months ahead
- Bad Fall
- Another rally?
- The big picture for the Fall season
- Places to hide
- Carry trade
- Cautionary note for bears
Edition 222 - 23 May 2010
- Gold, USD, Commodity markets, Dow/ US stocks
- Pyrrhic victory
- CAD and AUD
- Gold floor
- Oil
- Danger levels for Dow and S and P and oil
- Regarding this 10 pct ‘correction’ is it over?
- Bear cautionary note
- War dangers
Edition 221 - 16 May 2010
- Merkle France and Brown
- Our calls
- Why we make these calls
- Merkel and Brown and France and the Euro crisis
- More of the same means trouble for Euro
- Paralysis
- As far as our defensive allocations.
Edition 220 - 09 May 2010
- The electronic crash Thursday
- Electronic trading
- Inherently unstable
- May 6 electronic meltdown
- Great electronic crash is inevitable
- One sinister fact about speculators now (Funds)
- Currencies are involved and they will suffer a similar quick fate at some point
- Some Prophetic correlations
- What does this mean for us? Some trading dangers
- Predictions*
- Next Monday
Edition 219 - 25 April 2010
- Special report
- ETF phenomenon
- Gold demand sink
- Is this really ‘Gold’ or what ?
- Increased volatility harms the haven aspect of gold
- What if a major Gold ETF went down for whatever reason – like fraud?
- Gold vehicle safety hierarchy
- Is a gold ETF intrinsically a contradiction?
- Bad money drives out good money
- Even So…
- Markets in brief
Edition 218 - 18 April 2010
- Markets and prophecy update
- More tightening
- Dow levels to watch
- What Goldman could mean
- July
- Climbing a wall of worry? Yeah right.
- Market Doom 2012 and prophecy
- People and nations acting on their own prophecies at this time:
- PPTs and market crashes and ‘conspiracy’ or however you want to say it
- The false peace – economic and political
Edition 217 - 11 April 2010
- EMU in trouble
- The crises of late
- Why EMU and the Euro in the first place?
- New ‘Change’
- What will happen either way
- Euro Crisis Not going away
- Signs of inevitable change in the EU right now
- Euro not tested until now
- Staggering implications if Euro fails
- Its either debt forgiveness or chaos
- What effect would an EMU crisis have on the rest of the world aside from chaos in the EU region?
- Hungry Bear
- US and world stock rally – continues or not?
- China update
Edition 216 - 04 April 2010
- Where are we now with markets? US, EU, Asia long term
- CAD AUD
- Haven mode
- No Greek solution spells trouble in two months
- Rollover crisis looming
- New shocks on horizon
- Wait and see
- Lots of overhang on markets
- US bond bubble is worrisome
- Biggest crash of all time still ahead?
Edition 215 - 28 March 2010
- Markets
- Booming stocks?
- Interest rates and USTs
- Rally?
- Special Report – Jerusalem a burdensome stone
- Big prophecies are lining up right now in the Mid East- on both sides
- Jerusalem the burdensome stone
- A couple of very significant Bible prophecies about Jerusalem in the end of days
- Iran bomb an ‘existential question for Israel’
- Jerusalem in prophecy today
- Amazing prophetic fulfillments regarding Israel in our time
- Disastrous Israel US Summit
- Interpretation to present Mid East developments
- How this peace treaty might come about
- Strange bible codes
Edition 214 - 21 March 2010
- The Great wind down
- Trouble in the East
- USD prospects for coming months
- Resource currencies now
- Gold right now
- Is this like last time?
- Euro USD
- So to recap: Sector rotation, general commodities and the USD and Euro and China
Edition 213 - 14 March 2010
- Markets
- Special Report: Our brave new world – your kids’ future
- Historic change in everything
- Historic change afoot
- Some comparisons from the past to now
- Another world outside and another world inside your head, where you now spend most of your time.
- My advice on education for youth today
- The one percent
- Your kids must work for themselves
- Christopher’s recommended studies for your kids
Edition 212 - 28 February 2010
- Euro mess
- Everything is changing
- Conspiracy? So what?
- What I am interested in aside from conspiracies
- What the currency crises are leading to
- Regarding technical analysis
- This really feels like pre WW1
- What we were, what our expectations were that are in our head right now
- Forget the good old days
- Lot of money going to be burned in China
- Bonds now? You have to be kidding!
- One world currency
- OH China!
- Our city squirrels
- One week mandatory waiting period. Make that two weeks.
- Time to rethink things big time
- 401K like stuff
- Markets
Edition 211 - 21 February 2010
- Some preliminary end of world market guestimates
- What CAN we do?
- Why we have our risk ‘portfolio’
- ‘Never happen here’
- A little time left
- Forget the good old days
- Comments on gold, USD this last week, and the Fed move
Edition 210 - 14 February 2010
- Euro mess
- ‘EU solidarity will remain’
- Euro is not a haven
- Not ‘A’
- Sovereign Debt crisis
- Major trend change
- $750 gold??
- China Deflation
Edition 209 - 07 February 2010
- Gold USD Euro Oil Base commodities
- Gold this week
- The USD rallying.
- The Euro is in deep trouble.
- Quantitative easing ending worldwide:
- Outlook for base metals and commodities
- Mid East war pending
- The real issues – demographics for the world, and the West
- No, Asia will not be like the US economic miracle in twenty years.
- How we got here (our present economic standard of living)
- World Demographic Bomb
- Population bomb
- Wealth disparity combined with a massive population
Edition 208 - 31 January 2010
- Dealing with Crises
- Blood money
- Successful survival is not all about money
- First things
- Ok, but how do I protect my money though if there is a USD collapse? And what about my own country and not only the USD?
- Euro as a haven
- Why would other currencies have major trouble if the USD did?
- Ok, so then maybe the Yuan?
- Paid off things
- Commodities?
- The hedge fund manager and wealth preservation in a currency collapse
Edition 207 - 24 January 2010
- More news on a coming stock decline
- USD wobble
- Another alternative USD scenario that is quite different
- How will this affect you
- What you might do about it
Edition 205 - 10 January 2010
- Dry rehearsal for insolvencies 2010
- Bond revolt cometh
- Information problem
- Full home standby power system
Edition 204 - 27 December 2009
- Currencies 2010
- 2010 year of insolvencies
- USD flight to safety
- Disconnect
- Disturbing trends in the information cloud
- Information overload
- Dealing with political strife
- Agriculture
Edition 203 - 20 December 2009
- A bit about our calls
- Feb/March 2010
- Israel Iran
- USD gold
- Something out of this world
- Food crisis
Edition 202 - 13 December 2009
- Rumor Central
- Information problem, rumors etc
- Not everything you are hearing is true
- Patterns
- Gold commodities and USD right now
- USD
- Resource currencies
- Emerging markets
- Iran Israel
- Fuel emergency?
- Dominoes about to fall
Edition 201 - 29 November 2009
- Are we setting up for the next big crash?
- Currency wars
- 2010 for US bond markets
- Fundamental decade long change in process
- Debt Deflation???
- USD rally?
Edition 200 - 22 November 2009
- Stories and rumors
- USD carry trade –
- China USD peg
- World economy is sick
- Overcapacity
- Reflation bubbles
- Flight to safety in progress
- Gold now
- Gold – tungsten story
Edition 199 - 08 November 2009
- Intro
- Bad data = trouble for investors
- When US rates rise
- Gold tracking the monetizations
- USD carry trade
- The last decade
- Markets want to correct
- US Bond Bubble
- It takes a ton of money to live off savings now
- Danger for pensions
- Insurance annuities now
- Pensions
- Dividends
- All things considered
Edition 198 - 31 October 2009
- Looking ahead 2010
- Why all of a sudden
- Co incidence?
- One world, then.
- Not trying to bail out the economy
- Iran
- Israel-Iran surprise?
- China card
- A prophecy
- Resource war
- Rough decade imminent
- Food and other shortages
- Most imminent problem we see for 09
Edition 197 - 25 October 2009
- Bank Rumors
- Market quandaries right now, turning points
- Mid East surprise, and the Mid East situation
- Apparatti
- Conspiracies?
Edition 196 - 18 October 2009
- Gold comments
- Mutually exclusive truths – Paradoxes
- Biggest threat to baby boomers savings
- An explanation of the PE paradox
- Resource wars
- Solution?
- Investment that depend on earnings
Edition 195 - 11 October 2009
- Intro
- Prognostications
- Motivation
- Ok, getting a bit heavy
- Time lines
- The 2012 mania
- Regarding the Web Bots
- My approach
- Even if you don’t believe it, billions do
Edition 194 - 04 October 2009
- Deflation based on the baby boomers retiring
- THE strategy
- The consumer boom in the West is over
- Is there a safe place to save?
- THE strategy
- Why this strategy
- One more thing that is essential
- What is cash?
- The risk portfolio, performance
- The Strategy
- How this strategy works
- What would have happened if we did a 50-50 mix starting in 2002 to the present?
- Don’t forget
Edition 193 - 27 September 2009
- Uncertain markets = liquidity
- Cash is the new ‘spend’
- Iran Israel and markets
- Uncertainty portfolio
- Real Estate is worsening not improving
- Not much room for more $trillion stimulus
- Gold update
- Central banks pulling back their gold
- Deleveraging was only delayed
- Time to get the basics
Edition 192 - 20 September 2009
- Dealing with uncertainty in gold and the USD, and stocks
- Gold Time horizon
- Dealing with volatility pressures
- My low pressure metal portfolio
- How this works, even if so simple
- The most important thing about having gold stocks
- The 90 pct mental aspect of gold investing (silver too)
- Comments on the ‘recovery’
- Two interpretations of stock flatness
- Baltic dry index and stocks
Edition 191 - 13 September 2009
- Will the USD turn down to 70, gold rally
- Metal ETFs and this China derivatives story
- Gold is cheap compared to 1980
- Israel Iran
- Barrick de hedging
- UK gilts
Edition 190 - 06 September 2009
- Intro
- Flight to safety
- Tax haven issue coincides with gold
- China silver derivatives
- Gold price
- USD holding or rally
- Japan election
- 3rd time is the charm?
Edition 189 - 30 August 2009
- Why are markets rallying
- Few hands have most of market
- Insider Selling
- Below zero
- China, India replacing US as biggest consumer of their products
- Borrowing in dollars now cheaper than the other big carry trade currency, the Yen
Edition 188 - 23 August 2009
- What a new currency is like
- Some comments on how new currencies are enacted, and of course the USD prospects.
- Can a USD replacement be created and accepted?
- FDIC update
Edition 187 - 16 August 2009
- PrudentSquirrel SHTF edition number two
- ‘Denial. It’s not a river in Egypt.’ -Some wise person
- Some quotes from someone who lived through SHTF in our times (2000 to the present).
- We need to give up our illusions
- What might help
- More Preparations
- My basic grid independent home system, including internet
Edition 186 - 09 August 2009
- Some more comments on this USD ‘crisis’ Fall rumor
- USD hedge tradeoff - dilemma
- It’s your call
- My USD hedge percentage
- Example basic USD hedge
- ETFs as a hedge
- China next
Edition 185 - 02 August 2009
- More government plans for your tax deferred accounts
- China market and copper
- Confusing noise of so much money
- Need to watch S. Korea
- More food/AG watch
- Some predictions
- Don’t forget the USD hedging
- US T market still ok for now
- Making it in a flat market
- The best opportunity in a few years
- Patience!
Edition 184 - 26 July 2009
- The USD September story
- US/USD still has time yet, believe it or not
- Where is the biggest risk now?
- It’s the chaotic danger
- Time, but for how long
- ECB $600 billion liquidity backstop
- What are money markets telling us now about Fall and Winter 09?
- Have we turned the corner of recession?
- Rural property
Edition 182 - 19 July 2009
- Intro
- No on monetization
- What does this week’s rally mean for the USD, oil, gold, commodities?
- Economic journalists or what???
- Not ‘A’, rather the opposite of ‘A’
- Goldman 21, Moms and Pops 0
- The annuity and the mortgage
- My barber, and LA harbor
Edition 181 - 12 July 2009
- At a turning point?
- Getting ready for another down leg
- Speculation only now
- Permanently lost jobs
- 100 to 1 PE
- Manipulated information
- Deflation, stagflation, inflation or what?
- Depressed assets
- Liquidity
- The big picture and job destruction and the West
- Dark unregulated markets
- Pool of lemmings?
Edition 180 - 28 June 2009
- Gold, USD, Yuan, oil update
- Deflation question
- Food
- Darn gold stock volatility
- The Problem
- Making money
- We barely escaped this two times so far in the last two years
- Can you live with no income or store runs for months?
- People are worse now than when the Great Depression happened
- A bigger problem than the USD situation
- Stay in place?
- USD will be replaced but will prices stay prohibitively high?
Edition 179 - 21 June 2009
- Looking ahead to Fall 09
- Assumptions
- The US Fiscal situation; yes, unfortunately, we can borrow more
- Not buying US Ts will lead to currency friction
- BRIC recovery overestimated
- Commodities in the Fall
- Gold in some deflation
- Iran Facebook Revolution something new - to everyone
- Move into the net
Edition 178 - 14 June 2009
- USD gold oil, Euro CAD Yuan
- Why stimulus and bailouts having little inflation effect
- China’s many USD alternative plans
- Currency alternatives to the USD, havens?
- But a problem with the Yuan and the CAD is-
- Overall on what’s happening to the world economy
- And then the tax situation
- Minimize financial products
- But, here let us offer some ideas on a possible haven strategy:
- Euro, Yen as havens?
- Franc?
- Surprise
Edition 177 - 07 June 2009
- Gold and USD this week
- Deflation issues
- Base commodities as an inflation hedge?
- EU banks
- If the USD has a major problem, are you ready?
- Does the USD have about 2 years left?
- Vexing gold volatility
- Gold and Silver manipulation stories and Comex
- It’s going to be a surprise event
- The black box problem
Edition 176 - 31 May 2009
- Intro
- Be careful betting against the USD
- Pros and cons of a good resource currency
- Risk of sudden USD fall
- Comfortable mix
- Gold rallying for right reasons
- Inflation in the US – when?
- A bit about my sailboat
- RVs
Edition 175 - 24 May 2009
- USD tremors
- Near a crucial point for USD?
- USD ice cracking
- It’s called a pickle.
- What does this all mean?
- Here is an example of my farm setup:
Edition 174 - 17 May 2009
- What's good for GM is... Good for America? Is that how the saying goes?
- The second world
- ‘Darwinian ism’
- Are you living in the past?
- Getting to our money safety concerns
- Fundamental problem: money
- Gone with the Wind
- Escape? To where, exactly?
- What we are, I am doing
Edition 172 - 10 May 2009
- Intro
- Gold oil USD CRB
- Dealing with our changing world mentally
- Hate to say it but this time is like pre WW1
- What happened then
- Jumping to our present new order of changes since roughly 2000 to now
- Speculation not investing
- USD gradual fall or crash?
- Cocktail parties
- Professional myopia
- Financial survival mentality
- Asking the right questions
- Old assumptions that worked can be suicidal
- World does not take care of itself anymore
- Ignore at your own risk
- I Do understand your time problems
Edition 171 - 03 May 2009
- Intro
- Israel/US relations seeing a big break
- USD and treasuries reaction to flu
- Will flu stick to USD or not?
- Flu economic effects
- Self quarantine
- Flu and deflationary effects
Edition 170 - 12 April 2009
- Intro
- World stock rally- Dow 4000 or 10,000?
- Can you trade in this chaos?
- Cash is still king
- US economy bottoming? I don’t think so!
- Bonds
- Next critical test of the USD, when?
- Looking ahead one, two years
- Some things that will happen when the USD goes bye bye
- China already anticipating trouble
Edition 169 - 05 April 2009
- G20 developments
- China making moves
- IMF gold
- Paper gold
- $900 gold
- Gold and USD
- How long can the USD last?
- General commodities and food
- Asia recovery?
- Is this merely a post crash bounce ala 1929/30?
- Efforts to reflate are waste
- Global reflation?
Edition 168 - 29 March 2009
- Special Report on the IMF SDR proposal
- New USD chess game, and SDR
- Need to ask this question
- A good question
- Can SDR and USD work?
- Accept the change
- What might an SDR system bring to pass?
- SDR possible effects
- USD, Euro
- Gold and SDR
Edition 167 - 22 March 2009
- Latest USD and Euro developments
- East European Currencies
- Why there is a USD short squeeze
- Lots of USD leverage out there
- When will the UST market break?
- What this means for gold
- Very dangerous markets
- Inflation talk
- Patience
- There will be big opportunities in a year or so
- US T market
Edition 166 - 08 March 2009
- More on USD rally, Gold, currencies
- Deflation taking hold
- Why gold and USD rallying together
- USD and Gold by Mid 09
- EU USD problems
- Demand for USD
- Something very important to consider if you are thinking of relocating
- Euro, gold and USD now and future
- Gold and the USD in deflation
Edition 165 - 22 February 2009
- Special report on currencies
- The two bank runs
- New phase of currency instability
- How currency runs happen
- What can we do? Currency alternatives
Edition 164 - 15 February 2009
- US T bond situation
- Next big financial shoe to drop
- Does China have a choice?
- The Euro
- Fighting over the table scraps
- Sovereign bonds
Edition 163 - 01 February 2009
- Where to put money now?
- Energy
- US T bonds right now
- Corporate and Munis
- Cash can make you a lot of money in depressions
- Time to go fishing
- Haven currencies
- World unrest over economy
- And so, what can you do about it?
Edition 162 - 25 January 2009
- Special Report: World GDP slows in excess of 5 to 6% annualized in Q4 08
- As January goes…
- Online Bullion/coin stores, gold stocks and ETFs
- My concerns on tax deferred accounts – again
- Comments on gold confiscation and cash allocation and gold stocks
- Health and book recommendations
- China’s growth decline and US bonds
- Is the world now bankrupt?
Edition 161 - 18 January 2009
- Preparing for a long haul
- Have to adjust to the new reality
- Inflexibility
- In for a long haul of survival?
- Go into munis and high yield corporate now???? Huh?
- What used to be working
- Tax deferred retirement funds:
- Yield paradigm:
- Tax free bonds and higher yield corporate bonds:
- Real Estate:
- Long term stock investing:
- Relative currency stability
- Company pensions:
- Insurance annuities:
- Leverage:
- Sector rotation in recessions and ‘defensive stocks’:
- Dividends and bank stocks:
- Financial stocks in general with ever increasing leverage since 1945:
- Resource stocks in a generally growing world economy
- Energy
- Personal safety comments
- Getting back to preparing for the long haul
Edition 160 - 11 January 2009
- USD – How long does it have?
- Flight to safety holds USD up for now
- CDS window
- How much time the USD has left
- Why the USD is stronger than you might think
- A USD devaluation scenario everyone hopes for
- Two contradictory forces regarding the USD that exist and have to be rationalized
- Deflation and inflation at the same time
- The key dilemma
- Situation bears close watching
- Television media
- Black box problem in stocks and bonds
- Own some things that are real and defined!
- China / UST and German bond situation
- Asian bankers concerned of an uncontrolled US T bond sell off
- German bond auction partial failure
- Currency alternatives
Edition 159 - 04 January 2009
- Japan 2009
- US in first Q 09
- Currencies in 09
- Energy in 09
- Platinum and Silver in 09
- China/Asia in 09
- Deleveraging will continue in all markets with occasional rallies
- Monetization of markets everywhere
- Debt in 09
- Comparing gold, silver and platinum: which is the best haven?
- The Argentina scenario
- Life will go on
- Tax ‘deferred’ retirement accounts?
- US T bond ‘bubble’ can it last?
Edition 158 - 21 December 2008
- Hierarchy of metal ownership methods
- Hierarchy of metal ownership, in my order of preference:
- Gold/Bullion coins and bullion
- Gold stocks
- Gold ETFs
- Can the US or other Western countries really experience a bank holiday?
- Only now realizing the situation
- A mix of currencies and metals
- What happens when you are not discreet
- About the safety issue
- About safes
- Diversification
- US T Bond bubble, what does it mean
- Any wealth havens out there? Maybe
- Balancing the risks, how close do you want to get?
- Paper wealth vs Real wealth
- Getting from a paper mentality to a real one
Edition 157 - 14 December 2008
- Special report on China’s social stability if there is a depression
- China and the’ population dividend’, and how that is starting to change for the worse
- Dangerous combination – poverty, abuse of poor workers, and corruption
- 130 million ‘migrant’ workers
- China economic miracle is not a guaranteed success in the future
- China has a problem trying to get everyone’s standard of living up to the West
- Economic growth panacea
- Rarely, if ever, do we hear of developing social problems in China
- China’s recent massive economic stimulus makes US stimulus pall by comparison
- US/Western social instability coming?
- Muslim/West conflict
Edition 156 - 07 December 2008
- introduction
- Comex Gold Backwardation in Dec
- To clarify why there could be a USD bubble even at 77
- You cannot predict what you cannot imagine
- What can one do about this flight to cash situation?
- Hierarchy of US financial guarantees
- US bond market fulfillment fails
- US credit worthiness
- Is it worth it to pay taxes on tax deferred accounts now?
- The mortgage and the annuity
- What’s the rationale of tax deferred retirements?
- Fundamental reason insurance products and all pension funds are in jeopardy
- Renting
- Control is what is important
- Wall Streeters cut lifestyles
- Gold/Precious metal stocks now
- A stock buying risk control strategy
Edition 155 - 30 November 2008
- Our investing perception problems today
- Living in the past
- It’s a noise problem
- Our expectations for the future are probably wrong at this time
- People generally cannot believe in huge change in advance
- Living in the recent past
- Example of the commodity bubble and its recent fall, as a perception problem
- Markets rally on really bad data?
- Big crashes are multiyear events
- Where we are now, and what is next?
- USD situation why the rally and what after into 09
- Buffett gets nailed this year
- USD situation – T bonds etc, prospects into 09.
- Currency crises coming
- The prognosis is not an easy one to say the least
- Scale of world bailouts as of now
- Is there a safe haven country?
- Food complex updates
Edition 154 - 23 November 2008
- State of world economy fell apart in October
- Why gold is faring better than other markets
- Regarding the CRB component weights
- Don’t tell me that the US cannot lead in car manufacturing…
- Mandatory reading for Prudent Squirrels, book reccomendations
Edition 153 - 16 November 2008
- Now what??
- Financial survival snippits
- Cash economy
- World trade at a standstill
- G20 summit, what's in the near future?
- Colin Powell says there will be crisis 'we don't know about right now' Jan 20/21 09
- Are we headed for a world currency crisis in 09
- Worse layoffs coming for all economies
- Credit solutions not working
- Transformation
Edition 152 - 09 November 2008
- World bankruptcy imminent?
- Cascade of currency crises on the horizon
- Rollover is now becoming impossible
- Banking crises narrowly averted
- Brand new 20’s
- What can happen in bank runs
- One world financial solution coming?
- Some things that might be done about a cash crunch
- Possible cash crisis strategies
- What to do regarding falling metal prices
- Coin stores
- Numismatic coins
- Pool accounts and mint certificates
- Metal stocks
- Alternate currencies
- Comex metal prices and December
Edition 151 - 26 October 2008
- Another fateful week
- Don’t count on bear rallies
- Beware media impatience
- Simultaneous world crash
- Market focus shift
- Periodicity of major credit events appears
- Precious metals at this juncture
- Gold and metal stocks fall, what can one do?
- Currency instability now and into 09
- When I think metals will rebound
- The next big financial story developing
Edition 150 - 12 October 2008
- Risk of market closures?
- Partial guarantees are not enough
- What is threatening to happen
- What is coming next for the US?
- Is it even possible to take over the interbank lending?
- Regarding Gold Friday
- On alerts
- Stuff to get
Edition 149 - 05 October 2008
- How to survive when the shit hits the fan – edition
- First a comment on the reaction to the bailout
- Gold and silver prices
- What can one do if the electronic money system has trouble
- Electronic statements
- About safes
- Storable food
- Generators
- A nice, inexpensive and dependable home power system with battery back up
- Bling
- Unintended consequences of bailout
- Archives
Edition 148 - 28 September 2008
- What if there is not a bail out, and what if there is?
- A horror scenario?
- FDIC info
- Time to start thinking ultra caution, Some safer alternatives
Edition 147 - 21 September 2008
- World Credit nightmare and many developments that are affecting you now
- Not possible to stop
- Why the USD is stronger than it might be for now
- China getting antsy
- Still not enough
- Go ahead and buy some gold if you can
- More damage in last week than the entire previous year and a half
- Web Bot market predictions
- A flock of black swans
- Money Market fund situation
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