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[william Eggers <wce1482 AT yahoo.com>]

Looks to me that the best option is to raise food.  Money may be no good, but 
you can always trade for what you need if you have food to trade.  Food never 
goes out of style.

--- On Tue, 9/16/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Take cash from bank / Roubini
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 7:47 AM


> >1. Nobody knows the future for sure. 

Yet in the major topics shaping out times like oil and finance, a pattern is 
emerging.  Some people have a very good track record for analyzing and 
predicting the flow to things and some have just the opposite.  It's not
just one of 
those things with the lottery balls bouncing around, it's not random.  Some

analysts have been uncanny accurate in their predictions.  Spooky, even.


>>  The primary value of a professional financial advisor is  
> they make decisions without the emotion that the individual always  
> has. Their negative value to a person of homestead mindset is they  
> don't think like us; they choose from traditional investments.

Also financial advisors fall for Upton Sinclair's saw, "It is hard for
a man 
to understand something when his income depends on his not understanding
it."  
That is, never ask a barber if he thinks you need a haircut.  Putting your 
money in a mason jar, investing in tools and fencing and such, buying bulk 
food

.... financial advisors make no money in such a world and so that advice is 
unlikely to be high on their list.

> 
> 5. Bottom line, I like land that will produce food and fuel, and then  
> invest in seeds and tools and common necessities such as clothes,  
> salt, toothpaste, toilet paper. And good beer.

Do that first.  But there's another tack to this.  Get into a cottage 
industry and invest your money in yourself rather than someone else's
industry.  For 
example, if you were a quilt maker, buy bolts of cloth, batting, thread, 
frames, etc.  Those things stored well are inflation proof.   If money 
becomes 
worth one fifth its current value, then in the future you charge five times 
as 
much for a quilt ... your original investment back with interest that keeps 
up 
with inflation plus the profits from your own involvement:

"He who by the plow would thrive
 Himself must either lead or drive."
  (From Poor Richard's Almanac)   </HTML>
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They done did it.  Anyone know what the kanji for U.S.A. are?  We probably
should be learning that now.

Lynda
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> The Fed is making an unprecedented move and may be buying a stake in AIG
> for
> $85B as in Billion as in $85,000,000,000.  There is no congressional
> approval for this, neither explicit nor implied.  The cards are tumbling
> faster and faster.
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> Don Bowen  KI6DIU
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> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
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