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10/14/2017 / By News Editors

In a Cashless World, You’d Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out

When Hurricane Maria knocked out power in Puerto Rico, residents there realized they were going to need physical cash — and a lot of it. (Article by Ryan McMaken republished from Mises.org) Bloomberg reported yesterday that the Fed was forced to fly a planeload of cash to the Island to help avert disaster: William Dudley, the New York Fed president, […]

08/24/2017 / By News Editors

Stupid and fatal behavior of the people when they begin to realize that a SHTF scenario is in progress

A frequent mistake that many people make when considering the concept of social or economic collapse is to imagine how people and groups will behave tomorrow based on how people behave today. It is, though, extremely difficult to predict human behavior in the face of terminal chaos. What we might expect, or what Hollywood fantasy […]

08/02/2017 / By News Editors

Discredited Forbes.com says self-reliant homesteaders are “delusional” and “mooching” off “civil society”

It’s always interesting reading when someone smug and sanctimonious writes a clueless diatribe about another group of people being smug and sanctimonious. So when I saw that an economist for Moody’s and Forbes had written an op-ed calling self-reliant homesteaders “delusional,” I knew I’d be in for some misinformed hilarity. (Article by Daisy Luther republished from […]

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