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NC Renegade encourages everyone to become self sufficient and continue education in all forms of safety and preparedness. The best overall site for this topic is Survival Blog by James Wesley Rawles. We strongly encourage you to visit this site and take advantage of its broad knowledge base.
Another excellent resource is Prep Tips.
Category Archives: Financial
Mortgage Applications Have Biggest May Collapse Since Financial Crisis
It seems that the recent rise in interest rates, instead of the typical (pre-depression) behavioral tendency to make people nervous and rush to lock in low rates, has once again stalled any hope of an organic housing recovery occurring. While the … Continue reading
Ben Bernanke Crushes Hedge Funds: Average Hedgie Underperforming S&P by 65% In 2013
Yes, yes, everyone knows hedge funds aren’t benchmarked to the S&P – after all they “hedge” for the broader market downside. Here is the problem: having underperformed the S&P for five years in a row, many LPs are starting to get … Continue reading
Global Assured Destruction, Or How Bernanke Now Holds The Entire World Hostage
The one headline we have been waiting for for over four years has just hit: BOK KIM SAYS WORLD MAY FACE RATE RISK IF U.S. EXITS FROM QE Not when, if. And there you have it: if the Fed exits, the world (and most certainly … Continue reading
Another View of the Impending Collapse
I found the following article posted at another site, and as permission was given to re-post freely, I am doing so here. This is very well stated, and about as accurate as any prediction can be in regards to such … Continue reading
Bitcoin: The Tyranny Test
By Paul Rosenberg, FreemansPerspective.com An increasing number of people have complained about governments and central banks in recent years, even using the word “tyranny” to describe them. They are, of course, called names in the establishment press: conspiracy theorists, mainly. … Continue reading
Dr. Bill Forstchen – Economic Warfare and Precious Metals
Dr. Forstchen’s answers to questions concerning economic warfare and precious metals at the Heritage Life Skills II Seminar.
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Tagged Bill Forstchen, Economic Warfare, Precious Metals
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Billionaires Dumping Stocks, Economist Knows Why
Despite the 6.5% stock market rally over the last three months, a handful of billionaires are quietly dumping their American stocks . . . and fast. Warren Buffett, who has been a cheerleader for U.S. stocks for quite some time, … Continue reading
The S&P 500 Is Now A Gambler’s Paradise With 76.9% Up Days In May So Far
Everyone knows the odds of winning in a casino are worse than 50% (often much worse depending on the game played). So who wouldn’t rush to a casino where, instead, the odds were overwhelmingly in the gambler’s favor? That’s the promise of … Continue reading
IMPORTANT NEWSFLASH: US Government seizes accounts of the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange
In another demonstration that the United States is no longer the Land of the Free, the Department of Homeland Security has just seized the US bank accounts belonging to Mt. Gox, the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange. This certainly underscores the … Continue reading
The Bernanke Agenda – It Isn’t What You Think It Is
Chairman Bernanke, the engineer of the most manipulated and contrived market rally in history has informed us he won’t be making an appearance at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium this year. The reason – a scheduling conflict. Could there be … Continue reading
Jobless claims jump in warning sign for labor market
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits climbed last week at the fastest pace in six months, a worrisome sign for the economy which has been hit by government austerity. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits jumped by 32,000 … Continue reading
NO BANK DEPOSITS WILL BE SPARED FROM CONFISCATION
By Matthias Chang Esq, futurefastforward.com (with author’s permission) I challenge anyone to prove me wrong that confiscation of bank deposits is legalized daylight robbery Bank depositors in the UK and USA may think that their bank deposits would not be confiscated as … Continue reading
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Tagged Confiscation, futurefastforward.com, Matthias Chang
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INDIA’S BANKS & TRADING HOUSES ONLY RECEIVING 10% OF GOLD ORDERS
The recent take-down in the price of gold has created huge demand for physical bullion worldwide. India’s wholesale buyers are only receiving a tenth of the gold imports that they have ordered. According to The Economic Times India: Haresh Soni, chairman of … Continue reading
Gold Drops to 3-Week Low in Worst Run Since February on Dollar
Gold dropped for a fifth day in the worst run since February in London, falling to a three-week low, as a stronger dollar curbed demand for an alternative investment and bullion holdings declined. Other precious metals fell. Holdings in exchange-traded products dropped 6.2 … Continue reading
EMERGENCY G-7 MEETING: ELITE READY TO PULL THE TRIGGER?
The G-7 are meeting this weekend outside of London. This was unscheduled and can only be considered as an emergency meeting. I have maintained all along that a “bank holiday” would ultimately occur which sets positions in cement while a … Continue reading
Watch This Trigger Closely
See additional comments on Tea Party Nation: One of the tactics used to marginalize preppers (and sentient people who understand economics) is the state of the economy. We are accused of fearmongering and asked (actually ridiculed) when will we stop … Continue reading
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Tagged Federal Reserve, QE Infinity, Quantitative Easing, trigger
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Spain is officially insolvent: get your money out while you still can
I’d not noticed this until someone drew my attention to it, but the latest IMF Fiscal Monitor, published last month, comes about as close to declaring Spain insolvent as you are ever likely to see in official analysis of this sort. … Continue reading
Japanese Government Bonds Halted Limit Down; Yields Spike To 10 Week High; Worst Day In 5 Years
It appears things are getting a little out of control around the world. Between the collapse in JGB implied volatilities in recent days, today’s melt-down in JPY (+255 pips from pre-open US levels), the last few days melt-up in the Nikkei (+6.8% … Continue reading
Wholesales Sales Drop By Most Since March 2009; Relentless Inventory Accumulation Continues
The relentless warehousing of wholesale inventories continues, even if the “any minute now” gusher of wholesale sales continues to be pushed back into the indefinite future. Sure enough, the March data showed that wholesale sales disappointed, and instead of growing … Continue reading
The Price Of Copper And 11 Other Recession Indicators That Are Flashing Red
by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog, There are a dozen significant economic indicators that are warning that the U.S. economy is heading into a recession. The Dow may have soared past the 15,000 mark, but the economic fundamentals are … Continue reading
Chinese Gold Imports Soar To Monthly Record On Insatiable Demand
In what must be an inexplicable move to momentum-chasers everywhere, as gold continued to decline in price in March, and long before its targeted smash in April, China was not backing off its gold purchases of the yellow product. Quite … Continue reading
10,962,532: U.S. Disability Beneficiaries Exceed Population of Greece
The total number of people in the United States now receiving federal disability benefits hit a record 10,962,532 million in April, which exceeds the 10,815,197 people who live in the nation of Greece. According to newly released datafrom the Social Security … Continue reading
DEPOSITORS BEWARE – BAIL-IN BECOMES OFFICIAL EU PROPOSAL!
Ireland’s Finance Minister, and current European Council President, Michael Noonan, is introducing a proposal to European finance ministers that will hit depositors that hold over €100,000 in the event of future bank collapses. The Irish know a bit about bank … Continue reading
Zerohedge: The Reality-Is-Perception Gap
With retail stocks surging on the back of the any-minute-now recovery (justified by the might of the Federal Reserve printing press), we thought it perhaps useful to consider just how great things are in the retail sales space. Given the non-stop … Continue reading
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What Is a Gold Standard?
From YouTube: Before 1974, U.S. dollars were backed by gold. This meant that the federal government could not print more money than it could redeem for gold. While this constrained the federal government, it also provided citizens with a relatively … Continue reading
Your Assets Are On The Line
Carefully consider this closing statement from an article on Zerohedge: Over almost a century, we have witnessed the slow and progressive destruction of the best global mechanism available to cooperate in the creation and allocation of resources. This process began … Continue reading
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Tagged Asset, Confiscation, Currency Swaps
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Average Weekly Hours, The Law Of Large Numbers, And An April 618,000 Payroll… Decline?
What does this mean for the bottom line? Well, had the BLS reported flat average weekly hours worked at 34.6 as Wall Street had expected, while companies were paying out the same amount of hourly wages in April, the result would have … Continue reading
Ron Paul + Jim Rogers on the government: “They’ll use force and they’ll use intimidation…”
They won’t take our bank accounts…they will take our retirement accounts.” Jim Rogers As I’ve mentioned time and time again, nations are going bust. And the worse things get, the more desperate their tactics become. This isn’t the first time … Continue reading
