My name is Chris Martenson. I think the next twenty years are going to look very different from the last twenty. I want you to understand why.
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My primary goal is to position you for a positive tomorrow by taking appropriate action today. I built this site to help you stay informed, protect wealth, build resilience into your life and community, and connect with other concerned citizens. Hope to see you back here often.
Understanding the Silver Market 
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[We invited David Morgan, noted silver expert and proprietor of Silver-Investor.com, to provide our enrolled members with periodic updates on silver (which is up nearly 20% from the start of the year). He begins this week with an explanation of the mechanics of how it is bought and sold, and details how the dynamics of the physical and paper markets for the metal differ. -- Adam]
Revisiting The Case for Silver
Silver is one of the most compelling commodities to own, solely based on the industrial component and supply-demand fundamentals. Yet this isn’t the most important reason to invest in the metal; the monetary aspect is what makes it imperative, given that the fiat money house of cards could come crumbling down, bringing the entire global system to its knees. Along with gold, silver has been the preferred money of choice for thousands of years, as chosen by the market. It is not the barbarous relic that many who fail to understand honest money proclaim; rather, it possesses characteristics that the market finds the most ideal.
James Dines: Owning 'Wealth In The Ground' Is Your Best Bet to Surviving the Coming 'Supernova of Inflations'
James Dines has been in the business of making bold calls for over 50 years. In this deep-diving interview, he minces no words about the dire risks the US economy - and the world at large - faces at this juncture.
Simply put, he sees the excessive credit in the financial system as having placed the global economy on a collision-course with hyperinflation.
Unlike past periods of turmoil, there are no truly 'safe' places for investment capital to hide. Geographic markets and almost all asset classes are positively correlated these days. They share many of the same risks and if a systemic crash occurs, they will crash together. read more »
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Daily Digest 2/3 - In Gold We Trust, Efford To Rebrand Arab Spring Backfires In Iran, China's Tight Grip On Rare Earths
- Fiat Currency Failure Means: ‘In Gold We Trust’
- Senate Approves Ban on Insider Trading by Congress
- Effort to Rebrand Arab Spring Backfires in Iran
- S.E.C. Is Avoiding Tough Sanctions for Large Banks
- An Abundant Supply of Cheap Oil is the Most Important Resource for Our Future
- Nepal and Bangladesh to Establish Joint Venture 3,000 Megawatt Power Plant
- Trading China’s Tight Grip On Rare Earths
- Pet Rescuers Venture Into Japan's Exclusion Zone
Follow our steps to prepare for a world after peak oil, such as how to store & filter water
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Food Storage Packing: Facts and Myths
Know the facts about do-it-yourself packing
The purpose of this article is to present specific details and recommendations for packing your own shelf-stable foods for food storage. We will cover what works and what doesn’t in creating an oxygen-free atmosphere for long term food storage, and common misconceptions about how to do your own packing. While there are many different types of dried foods that can be stored for extended periods of time, most folks are interested in how best to store grain and bean products.
While I could write a book on every specific detail of every packing option and all of the technical specifications of all available packing containers, that is not the purpose of this article. I will cover important highlights, facts, insights, and information gained from over 37 years in the preparedness and outdoor recreation industry. It is important to keep in mind that I have not only been a retailer of preparedness and outdoor foods, I have also been a manufacturer, developer of hundreds of recipes, packaging and product innovator, and researcher of shelf-stable foods.
Some of the material presented here will contradict and challenge information available on the Web or in some do-it-yourself circles. Many people assume preparedness information to be accurate without careful consideration of the source's expertise or the validity of the facts. I encourage you to research on your own any of the information presented in this article – or in any article, for that matter – and to use basic critical thinking skills to evaluate the evidence and data you are offered. A little common sense goes a long way in assessing many of the claims being made about shelf life and do-it-yourself issues. read more »
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Prepare for the Collapse of the Dollar 
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by Gregor Macdonald, contributing editor
Monday, January 30, 2012
Executive Summary
- The decision whether to export its commodities will become increasingly strategic to the US
- Understanding why Washington has decided to kill the dollar
- What's driving the dollar now
- What to expect from a coming secular decline of the dollar
- Why the deflation risk is ending and grand quantitative easing (QE) is now underway
Part I: The Price of Growth
If you have not yet read Part I, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
Part II: Prepare for the Collapse of the Dollar
The just-released GDP report, which wraps up the 2011 performance of the US economy, made for unhappy reading.
While the headline number was stronger in the fourth quarter, after adjusting for inflation, the reading for the entire year came in at 1.7%. As Business Insider’s Joe Weisenthal put it, that is the "final, pathetic growth number for 2011."
Many writers over the past year, including me, have hammered away at the idea that the performance of the US economy in real terms was statistically indistinguishable from a flatline in the aggregate.
No one disputes that some sectors of the economy, like exports and shipping, are growing. At issue is whether the economy as a whole is operating for the majority and not just segments of the populace. (Again, in real terms.) At a growth rate of 1.7%, we can at least conclude that no meaningful headway can be made in employment. Since the 2008 crisis, the US has been building a multi-million sub-population of people who are unemployed long-term. Only monthly job growth that first utilizes all new workers coming into the labor force will be able to eventually cut into this labor pool. Hence the revelations from the Federal Reserve this week related to targeting inflation, maintaining a zero-interest rate policy through late 2014, and conducting further quantitative easing (QE).
Before we dissect this week’s Fed meeting, let’s take a look at the recent trend in exports.
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The Coming Rout
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Executive Summary
- Further evidence that a Fed quantitative easing stoppage in June is likely
- Implications such a stoppage will have on stocks, commodities, bonds, and precious metals
- Why this will be more damaging to the economy than the 2008 correction
- Will the Fed eventually resume quantitative easing?
- Three alternatives to watch for that could prevent the coming rout
- How to hedge against the predicted rout
Part I: Why Things Are About To Get Turned Upside Down
If you have not yet read Part I, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
Part II: The Coming Rout
There are a few things that make the prospect of a Fed quantitative easing (QE) stoppage more likely.
The Fed Notices Inflation
Using a flashlight, a map, and both hands, the Fed managed to find something:
Fed Finds Climbing Costs Hit Shoppers
March 3, 2011
Many manufacturers are passing along higher input costs to their customers, a sign that rising prices for wheat, cotton, iron, and other commodities could increasingly reach consumers in coming months, according to the Federal Reserve's beige book survey.
The report, a summary of economic conditions across the central bank's 12 regional districts, said manufacturers "in a number of districts reported having greater ability" to pass through higher costs. "Retailers in some districts mentioned they had implemented price increases or were anticipating such action in the next few months," the Fed said.
It's good to see that the Fed is at least dimly aware that price inflation is in the pipe and coming soon to a market near you. The rest of the world has had no such difficulties in detecting inflation, especially on news like this:
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