I haven't seen this addressed before, and I was curious to get the opinions of the more knowledgeable voices on here. It seems for the gold aspect of the PP, there are several benefits which are always mentioned when holding physical gold, (where you actually take possession, such as in your safe.) ...

You may want to check out the Free State Project (as D1984 mentioned). New Hampshire seems to be a state that a lot of freedom-loving people are especially drawn to. I've never visited the place, though. http://freestateproject.org/ I find the claims about NH to be spurious.  Most of the population...

I have a small business, with over 30,000 customers over the last decade. All separate and unique sources of income. Does that count? It doesn't count if they are all buying the same thing. i.e. if you sold Fax machines, then you might be in trouble. Fax machines are still pretty well used in the b...

Check out that new show coming on discovery next week called "Doomsday Preppers." Looks like fun

I have a small business, with over 30,000 customers over the last decade. All separate and unique sources of income. Does that count?

"Between 1998 and 2010, even on favorable assumptions, hedge fund managers earned an estimated US$379bn in fees, out of total investment gains (before fees) of US$449bn. In other words, they took 84% of the investment profits their funds made, leaving just 16% for the investors." What's t...

I'm unsatisfied with the high price of freeze dried emergency food.  For example, it would cost approximately $1200 just to have enough food for 3 people for a month.  That is just ridiculous! I don't want to "get involved" with neo-survivalist and "prepper" forums to figure out...

For those that didn't see it, you might be interested in the two podcasts I did earlier this year about Harry Browne's book "How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World". They include an intro to Harry's life and also a group discussion among some friends about the ideas in the book. We talked...

http://youtu.be/9fzO_YhOYNQ

Reporter talks about how people are selling gold because it's "not backed by anything." While people are buying US dollars since it's "backed by the US government" and therefore much more stable.

I can't even think of how to comment...

Freedom_Found, that first one traps a lot of us when we first begin to consider using the PP.  What I would ask you is this:  If gold and TLT drop significantly back to early 2010 levels, what would the rest of the assets in the PP do?  In fact, stocks have an almost directly inverse correlation to...

One thought: the topics that people keep asking about and discussing are the ones that need to be written about more.  To my mind they are: - "I can't start the PP because asset X is obviously overpriced" - whether to include international stocks (my opinion is "no" but it's you...

I have to agree pretty much 100% with Triple B. We've seen large inrushes into gold and TLT, based on emotional "alarm" of what people think is "supposed to" or going to happen in the market. When the "panic" subsides, that money will begin to be taken out, and the larg...

I redboxed it last night.. Was pretty good. Kevin Spacey is always good, he seems to play the part of a "business executive" in many movies. I guess he just looks the part.

The fact the Germans never invaded them leaves me with quite a bit of curiosity in terms of their history. It's even more amazing when you look at a map of western Europe, and think of it in WWII terms. Switzerland is bordered with Germany to the north, France to the west (occupied by Germany), Ita...

I actually came over here from suvivalistboards.com. I had been posting on there for the last couple years, but basically came to a few revelations. One, many (most) people on there are dirt poor, and will spend 50 hours to make something out of spare materials, rather than buy a new one for $15. I ...

I think if we're a lot like Switzerland during WWII, where most of us are savvy with small-to-medium sized weapons that can do a lot of damage from a person's home, we've gotten 99.99% of the way to full defensive freedom without giving bat-sh!t crazy criminals a blank check for destructive behavio...

Gun ownership of certain forms is punishable after the act of ownership of the weapon if deemed to be outside protection of the 2nd amendment and therefore illegalized, because the mere existance and circulation of that weapon in society does two things: So in your eyes, the argument is what weapon...

remember, you can't yell fire in a crowded theatre or verbally threaten somebody else. Actually, you CAN yell fire in a crowded theater, if there is actually a fire. If somebody does so when there is no fire, they will be subject to the proper punishment after the fact. However, taking away guns fr...

The problem with banning "this" or "that" specific type of gun is that it never stops at that. Research the statements from those in favor of banning guns and you'll see the majority of them have no problem stating their ultimate goal of removing ALL weapons from the population. ...

When having a discussion about guns and gun control, one thing that I frequently notice about the people on the anti-gun side of the discussion is that they often really don't know very much about guns at all. It's not just the people taking part in the "discussion," it's the people writi...

Stone makes a good point... as libertarian as I am, I don't want my next door neighbor having a nuclear weapon, so there must be some level between a single shot .22 derringer and an ICBM that should be considered "reasonable." I think that point would be at which a family would be able to...

stone wrote: Are you claiming that Japanese Americans in WWII could have used guns to prevent their internment?

No, I'm saying the "Well that could never happen here" defense doesn't hold water when you start looking into history.

Speaking of guns, Jews and the holocaust, study history and you will find they are all closely related. At the end of Schindler's list, he makes that speech to all of his Jewish factory workers. In the liberal hollywood version of the movie, that is the end. In real life, he handed out a gun to each...

Great post, thanks. I was hesitant to spend $99 for a download, but I think now I will do it.

California... might prevent me from owning an assault rifle, but I can't own a mortar, C4, nuclear warheads, or any number of military ordinances as well. Do you feel that you really need a 7.62 caliber rifle to protect your family?  What type of armed force exactly do you think is going to invade ...