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We live in troubled economic times. A raging debt, stagnant wages, severe unemployment and underemployment, and an unsteady housing market are all signs that the economy could collapse. Many off-gridders and homesteaders are preparing and stockpiling for an unknown future, ...

  A major food shortage that has emptied supermarket shelves in Venezuela and forced some in the city to eat dogs and cats has led others to forage – and some are doing it successfully. Fruit trees, in fact, are ...

Jan. 13, 2015 A collapse in the financial markets and the economy could be right around the corner, despite the media’s claims of an economic recovery. In fact, there are signs than an economic meltdown similar to the one in ...

The Chinese government could be positioning itself to dominate the world’s gold market and use its bullion to make its yuan currency the basis of international trade. At least that’s speculation from financial analysts after it was revealed that China ...

The United States is overloaded with bridges in need of repair or replacement, with not enough money to do the work. Many of today’s bridges are years past their designed life expectancy, according to a report by the Associated Press. ...

There are two kinds of survival skills that I like to call “soft survival skills” and “hard survival skills.” Hard survival skills consist of those abilities that a person or family needs to survive in an extreme situation, such as ...

I grew up believing I could trust my government. My doors were never locked. My rights were protected. This is no longer the case. I am a positive person by nature, but circumstances require me to be a realist also. ...

The media is once against trumpeting real estate and claiming that rising real estate prices are a sign of recovery. Are the commentators correct, or is the so-called increase in real estate prices simply hype designed to make a terrible ...

It is time to start preparing for another major economic catastrophe, and this time it won’t start in America. It’ll come from China; in fact, it’s probably already started. The looming catastrophe is the biggest real estate bubble in human ...

In the space of a few weeks, the value of Iran’s currency plummeted by 40 percent. While the government blamed international sanctions, locals blamed their government. Yet the blame game isn’t the most insightful thing about the Iranian crisis. Instead, ...