Prepping for inflation. A warning.

[Tycer]

I hope you’re prepping for the shocks coming.
Think the way you wish you could have been ready for the 2008 GFC with a deflationary pulse added to it. Then think about how to insulate yourself from this rising food costs driven by the global famine this fall/winter.
I warned you about the GFC in 2007. Consider yourself warned again. This time the systems are less prepared than 2008.
Go to Peokprosperity.com and watch at least the last Finance U with Paul Kiker.
We are not being informed by our leaders about this. Please take care. PM me if you need to talk as Leverguns has been so spotty.

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It certainly seems like it's a good idea to be diversified, and you don't have to be wealthy for that concept to apply. If you have a ton of money, I'm sure the best thing to invest in for stability would be land, and if you have more than a ton of money, get land in different places in case the place own property in has some sudden economic downturn or hazardous waste discovered there or whatever.

If you have less than a ton of money there are other tangible things one can buy, such as gold or silver, although owning a bunch of that stuff seems kind of boring, plus I'm not sure in a real big meltdown that it would be useful for day-to-day purchases. How are you gonna get a loaf of bread from Susie, a gallon of gas from Sam, and pay Steve to fix your lawnmower, if all you have is one gold coin...? I'm thinking for that sort of purpose a pocket full of 22 long rifle cartridges would do way better. Plus they have their own value and function, whereas gold and are used in electronics but mostly are just very beautiful ornaments.

A lot of things never change, and throughout history the people who survive generally priorit the basics:

Air - Not sure if that's a practical concern most of us could deal with or ever would have to, but I suppose in some places air filtration could be important. Mostly for regular folks the only issue would be if you need supplemental oxygen for your health You need to be sure you plenty in tanks, or some way to generate with one of filters, which of course requires electricity.

Water - Hard to go more than a day without water, so a short term supply on hand, plus a way to get more of it and purify it if needed.

Food - Although we can go or so without food it's not pleasant and leaves us not at our best to deal with what situation has caused the calamity in the first place. I think most of us have some form of 72 hour kit at hand, and it is certainly easy and a good idea to have deep pantry shelves where at least five or 10 of the foods that you eat that store readily you can have a couple months of on hand.

Shelter - Unless something really weird happens and a person is planning on bugging out to some remote area, Mostly we just need to make sure that our home is in reasonably decent shape and that we would be able to fix a roof leak if there were a storm and nobody else to fix it for us.

Protection - Of course lever guns are hard to beat in that function, and most of us have other kinds as well, but In other nations when there has been deep recession or financial depression or other disruption, the dishonest become more bold and having dogs or home security systems or whatever are important because it's generally better to stop a problem before a firearm is needed.

Fuel/Energy - A yard tank of propane for those who heat with is a good thing, and can be used for a generator as well, although solar power is getting pretty impressive. I really wish there was a tested and commercially available generators set up to use a steam engine, because then you wouldn't be dependent on any particular kind of fuel, but I've not seen such a device, and I think some of that is because it's difficult to get the kind of electrical supply we need these days without precise RPM control, which evidently steam engines aren't good at. Still, I would think that one could at least generate enough electricity to charge a dozen or so car batteries using steam, use a high tech pure sine wave inverter to take that electricity into the home.

Medical - I have patients ask me all the time I would make a list of things they should have on hand for medical emergencies, and been working on that. Everybody should have first aid supplies beyond just band aids and gauze. Tourniquets and eyewash are things that should be immediately available wherever you are because chemicals in eyes arterial lacerations need to be addressed within a few seconds, as opposed someone running to their vehicle and rummaging through a pack to find them. Longer term medical supplies that people would need if things really got bad start including things people need in 3rd world countries to treat parasitic infections and so forth. Honestly a lot antibiotics and antiparasitics needed in those situations are available for livestock at any farm store. You just have be extremely cautious converting to humans. Every local group of folks who want network so they can deal with life in general, or a calamity, should include a physician or pharmacist or nurse practitioner or RN or Medic or somebody like that.

Communication - Speaking of that group of people intending to deal with things ranging from church security to surviving the apocalypse definitely needs to include a couple people with computer and radio skills. Keeping in mind there is a variety of skills needed. I can wire a house from the meter base on, but would be clueless to fix a computer, and Many people who can fix a computer could not program it, or vice versa. Then when it comes to radios, they are so integral with computers now there are a lot of people who know a lot about radios but not enough about computers to get them programmed efficiently, and most radios these days are useless beyond line of sight unless they are programmed to interact properly with repeaters.

....and most importantly - KNOWLEDGE (Keep in mind if things got really bad, A paper book on how to do something is going to be way better than having a link on your computer to some website)

I know most of that has nothing to do with finances, but it was just things that came to mind thinking about the likely economic and social problems on the horizon. And those might not even be a problem if we get into a nuclear war, or artificial intelligence become self aware and malignant, or if some of the stuff about alien life already present on the planet is actually true...

[Tycer]

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It certainly seems like it's a good idea to be diversified

Yep. Those are all good points. And hopefully I’m pretty set in all of them.
This is a pretty big deal. I can’t see how the people on this earth are gonna get through this without millions of lives lost. The globe has become so reliant on factory farming, which is reliant upon fossil fuel inputs notably fertilizer and diesel. Neither of which are currently flowing in sufficient quantities to meet the demand. No one I follow can offer any solution to this predicament.

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