Financial Security

American management practices use a lot of techniques to examine planning, program development, future goals, and modes of execution to achieve those goals.  One of the business school tactics used by many groups is called the SWOT.  This stands for (1) Strengths, (2) Weaknesses, (3) Opportunities, and (4) Threats.  Walking through this process applied to… Read More

On TV the other day (I was streaming a news broadcast off the Internet – I don’t have cable TV) I saw a commercial that settled in my mind and it gnawed away at for me awhile. I didn’t realize until later why it bothered me so much. Here’s a synopsis of the commercial: Dude1 walks… Read More

Archaeologists and Historians study the past to derive valuable inferences from past civilizations. This exercise is a noble and important one; after all, those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. In the spirit of this thinking, I have written about a few examples of decay. If we aspire to be prepared for the… Read More

A coalition of mutinous Republicans have emerged from their elitist holes to join Democrats in a whining chorus of: “Never Trump!”. Quite frankly, I’d like to know where these Republicans have been during eight years of a disastrous Obama Administration. Where was the contrived moral outrage during Attorney General Eric Holder’s botched mishandling of the… Read More

Almost overnight Katrina turned from a woman’s elegant name, to a tragic hurricane, to an adjective for a tangible survival situation.  So when the word Katrina is used to qualify a rifle, it should be clear that the intended use of the rifle will not be for anything fun.  This particular Katrina Rifle (KR) project… Read More

I have no idea if an electromagnetic pulse is coming.  I can’t speak to the odds of a major Ebola outbreak, nuclear war, hyperinflation, solar storms or a herd of pissed off sasquatches auditing the fed.  No one does, and that’s the point. By Professor Liberty Mize We can’t speak to the timing or likelihood… Read More

Today’s guest post comes from a new advertiser at CBMint.  Check ’em out online. ———————————- Certainly the last decade has seen an explosion in precious metals investment and buying — so much so that the mainstream media even picked up the trend. Prior to that time, owning physical precious metals was the purview of a… Read More

Hello Everybody.  A reader just sent me this question: ArmyVet here again; I am an over-the-road trucker, Mrs. Army is a housewife. My SHTF concerns should be obvious, what if I am 1,000 + miles from home when IT hit the fan. I have my ruck and 1st aid bag on the truck always, my… Read More

Have you seen this news story? It’s not really new. Two years on and many victims of Sandy are still waiting on their promised government help in rebuilding. The Archdruid wrote something interesting recently, that’s stuck with me; measure the gap between the needed crisis response, and what is actually getting to people on the… Read More

A few days ago, a guy at work came up to me and asked me for a bit of firearms help. He told me he’d saved about $1000, and was looking to get a handgun and a long gun plus a few accessories to set himself up for a SHTF type situation. He didn’t want… Read More

Hubby and I have been using the Dave Ramsey endorsed Debt-Snowball method over the past few years. The debt-snowball method is a debt reduction strategy, whereby one who owes on more than one account pays off the accounts starting with the smallest balances first while paying the minimum on larger debts. Once the smallest debt… Read More

I read Calamity Jane’s post Consumer vs Producer Prepping with some interest on Monday.  I’d been working on the post below at the time and almost didn’t publish it.  Then I got thinking that, hey, this is real.  This is what I do.  If I’m doing it I’m sure there are others out there as… Read More