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The Market Ticker – Bill Gross: Bend Over And Kiss….

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….. the "self-sustaining recovery" goodbye!

 

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Top 10 Survival and Preparedness Apps

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Fernando,

I am a police officer(patrol and SWAT) in the United States. I have
read your book and followed your blog pretty closely and have been
impressed with your level of insight and levelheadedness. Every day,
more and more guys in my profession are quietly talking about what the
future is going to hold for us up here and there is a subdued but
growing interest among us in the survival movement.

Anyway, I know you are a big iphone fan, as am I, and I was wondering if
you had any favored iphone apps in relation to survival that you would
like to share with us. I didnt find any posts to this effect on your blog.

Please do not use any of my information whatsoever if you wind up
posting this.

Keep up the good fight and stay safe.

In liberty,

J

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A Nutritional Approach to Food Storage

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Guest post by Moo Mama who blogs at Moo Said the Mama

There are many different approaches to food storage. Some folks prefer to store only MREs. Some folks prefer to store dehydrated and freeze dried foods in little foil packets. Some folks store canned and boxed prepared foods. Some folks only store bulk grains.

When I was contemplating what sort of food to store for our family I realized that my primary concern was storing foods as similar as possible to our regular diet. I knew that fresh fruits and vegetables couldn’t be part of the long-term food storage plan and that got me to thinking about just what mix of nutrients I would ideally want in our food storage and how to go about insuring I had that mix in my plan.

That line of thinking led me to reviewing information from the United States Department of Agriculture. They’re the folks who put together nutritional information. Remember the four food groups and then the pyramid? All were brought into existence courtesy of the USDA!

Now I don’t think that the USDA recommendations are the be-all or end-all to nutrition. I honestly think they’re a bit carbohydrate heavy and protein lean, to be brutally honest. It was, however, a good platform for me to start with and it’s nutritional information that is familiar to most Americans. It’s also easier…

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The Market Ticker – Sackcloth and Ashes

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For those who are unaware, today is Ash Wednesday.  Catholics go to Mass and fast, mostly.  The definition of "fasting" has changed a bit over the years in that as a Catholic you’re now permitted one modest meal.  (I guess this constitutes "fasting" when 30% of America in many areas is obese.)

It is also supposed to be a day of reflection.  A day where one looks at what has been, along with hopes for tomorrow.

I’ll take a crack at that.

The Ticker is nearly four years old at this point.  Technically there is another month or so to go, but it’s close enough.  I began writing as a consequence of detecting in our financial system the same scams and schemes that caused the detonation of the technology space seven years prior.  I was early sounding the call, but not by much – only about a year.

You would think that these same mistakes made in the 1990s, and then again with the housing bubble, would sink in.  You would expect that laws would change.  You would expect that the people would grasp that all of the scams, schemes and devices that had failed not once but twice would finally be pushed off the stage.

If you believed that would happen you now must admit that you were wrong.

We have learned and accomplished nothing in the preceding four years.  Credit default swaps are still being written with no money behind…

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Dave Canterbury slices open his own arm, cauterizes w/ black powder

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Yes, Dave is a lot tougher that you are. Dual Survival returns April 22nd.

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Ceridian Index Positive 15th Month, but Slowing, Suggesting “Tepid Growth”

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The Ceridian shipping index measures real-time trends in diesel fuel usage and correlates well “over time” with Industrial Production. Month-to-month analysis is subject to much error. For Example, Ceridian’s economist was looking for a weak Christmas season following its “Recovery Time Out” report last October.

That report was negated by a December forecast suggestive of a strong recovery. In turn, the strong recovery forecast has been negated by weak January and February numbers. Today’s report reflects February numbers.

Please consider February PCI Continues to Signal Slow Growth

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index™ (PCI), a real-time measure of the flow of goods to U.S. factories, retailers and consumers, fell 1.5 percent during the month of February. Coupled with the 0.3 percent loss from January, this latest data eliminates the strong gain (1.8 percent) experienced in December 2010. However, February marks the fifteenth straight month of year over year growth indicating that economic recovery, while fragile, remains underway.

“The PCI performance in the first two months of this year suggests weakness in some parts of the economy,” states Ed Leamer, chief PCI economist and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast. “Nevertheless, our outlook for 2011 is for continued economic recovery – we expect GDP to grow at the historically “normal” rate of 3 percent, accompanied by a persistent level of high unemployment.”

Over time, the PCI has shown a strong correlation with the government’s Industrial Production (IP) figures. For January, the…

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Money Saving Wednesday: Should be Called Food Saving Wednesday!

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Ready Or Not was a great show last night. This month we are purchasing a Dutch Oven for our General Store and Janet Wayman gave awesome tips for seasoning, cleaning and cooking with a Dutch Oven. She has promised to send some recipes today and I will post them tomorrow. I am anxious to do some more experimenting with mine. I made some awesome bread again this week. The three artisan bread I made were sourdough, cheese and herb and olive. The herb and the cheese each cost me about $1.20 to make and you know they are $4.00 or more in the store. The sourdough was about 35 cents. I also made a white bread and a wheat bread. They are so much fun because they bake up the size of the Dutch oven (12 inch) so you have this huge round loaf and all my friends love it when I bake one for our quilting group. Those cost me about eighty cents each to make and they are equivalent to two regular loaves. The best part is they taste so much better than the store bought stuff. The recipes are in your May 2010 Totally Ready Newsletter. If you are not a subscriber and would like to purchase back issues, the entire first year of Newsletters is available at Totally Ready.com.

Now is the time to save money to purchase food and to pay off debt. Normally I would encourage…

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Saudi unrest gaining momentum

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Some headlines and articles from the last 24 hours. Saudi Arabia increasing their own strategic reserves Saudi Arabia’s day of rage Saudi Day of Rage likely to be a non-event Commentary in the Asia Times

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candle in a cold tin box

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CANDLE IN A COLD TIN BOX

I don’t know what but something has gone wrong with the gadget that links Amazon products to this blog. Until it is fixed, I’ve added a daily links page to my web page. I’ll give you the link and when you are ready to buy from Amazon please go through that page first. Just like if you’d gone through a link in this article, I’ll get credit for your purchase. You pay no extra, I get paid from commission to keep writing. Here’s today’s link:

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I hadn’t been to the book store for probably over a month. It might even have been closer to six weeks. It just got to the point that there were so many books piled hither and yon that there was little point. I mean, you go to the book store, they have a ten cent “no-return” book sale and you grab so many used paperbacks that you have enough for a year of unemployment just from that one trip. Even a packrat is going to take a break at some point. But I had a hankerin so we went in. And I picked up a copy of “The Backwoodsman”. Well, usually I just grab a copy when I see it is new. This time, the cover photo threw me a bit. I’m used to seeing a painting. And I’m leery since I remember when Mother Earth News went from painting to photo-it…

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