I have been accurately criticized in this forum for being less vocal about guns and shooting sports than about "other issues." This is a valid charge, but it is because I AM ONLY INTERESTED IN GUNS AS A MEANS TO AN END, not as an end in themselves. I want to be adequately armed and adequately proficient to protect freedom and liberty. Other than that, I have no use for guns (other than the occasional hunt). I am a liberty guy, so all my posts sort of grow out of that. If on the barely conceivable idea that you are even interested in WHY, I am of the conviction that liberty grows out of basic human rights, and that those rights are inseparably joined at the hip with a view of man being in the image of God. It is all sort of organic, and jumbled all up so that you can't separate one thread without the whole skein of yarn coming unraveled. It is also why I can get "preachy" on those topics... they all hang together. As to my obnoxious nature in interacting with others sometimes, I got nothing to blame that on! 
All that said, I watched a vid last evening from some of my favorite economic/social spokespeople. Mike Maloney, Chris Martenson, Charles Hugh Smith, Adam Taggart, and Grant Williamson. They were, to a man, of the opinion that the present economic apocalypse WAS IN NO WAY "CAUSED" BY THE COVID VIRUS, but rather began in earnest back in October/November when the fed began printing hundreds of billions of dollars to rescue the banks from the collapse of the overnight repo rate. All COVID did was to accelerate and magnify this already metastasizing collapse. This is important because they all reject the conventional wisdom that the current economic boondoggle is government created, and therefore will come roaring back when gov "gets out of the way" and allows markets to return to the way it was. That is the background. I would advise you to watch the vid and argue with them and not me if you disagree ()
What was most interesting to me (and somewhat encouraging), was the food production/self sufficiency strategies of these men..... all of whom were EXTREMELY financially successful and could afford to just hole up and spend their gold/silver if they chose. Instead, they were ALL recommending to 1) get out of the city, and buy some producing ag land, or at least buy some land and begin prepping it. 2) invest in greenhouse ability, as a means to producing food in winter 3) view land like this as a viable investment (!) (I think it was Martensen who stated that his little 25 acre farm in Western Massachussetts had become EXTREMELY rare, as all the NYC dwellers were looking to buy up property since COVID) 3) they all were of the opinion that we are headed to a hyperinflationary hair on fire collapse of our entire economic system, and that this is now unavoidable with the eye popping amounts of "liquidity" (money printing) the fed is doing. (They have moved from intervening in the overnight funds rate to buying Treasuries, to buying junk bonds, to now buying ETFs and will soon be buying regular equities. They HAVE to, as the system is so like a junkie getting a fake money fix that we will immediately go into full blown depression if the fed tries to unwind).
I have never been the kind of guy who just sits and bitches and moans about how unfair and unjust it all is, and how the deck is stacked against the little guy, so I really want to know what can I do to hedge myself against all this insanity.
It was therefore encouraging to see MUCH bigger players than I would/could ever be telling me that my simple little community of gunner gardener preppers may be people helping me do far more than just get some tasty tomatoes on my plate this summer. Economic hedges don't just have to be gold and silver, or cryptos......
All that said, I watched a vid last evening from some of my favorite economic/social spokespeople. Mike Maloney, Chris Martenson, Charles Hugh Smith, Adam Taggart, and Grant Williamson. They were, to a man, of the opinion that the present economic apocalypse WAS IN NO WAY "CAUSED" BY THE COVID VIRUS, but rather began in earnest back in October/November when the fed began printing hundreds of billions of dollars to rescue the banks from the collapse of the overnight repo rate. All COVID did was to accelerate and magnify this already metastasizing collapse. This is important because they all reject the conventional wisdom that the current economic boondoggle is government created, and therefore will come roaring back when gov "gets out of the way" and allows markets to return to the way it was. That is the background. I would advise you to watch the vid and argue with them and not me if you disagree ()
What was most interesting to me (and somewhat encouraging), was the food production/self sufficiency strategies of these men..... all of whom were EXTREMELY financially successful and could afford to just hole up and spend their gold/silver if they chose. Instead, they were ALL recommending to 1) get out of the city, and buy some producing ag land, or at least buy some land and begin prepping it. 2) invest in greenhouse ability, as a means to producing food in winter 3) view land like this as a viable investment (!) (I think it was Martensen who stated that his little 25 acre farm in Western Massachussetts had become EXTREMELY rare, as all the NYC dwellers were looking to buy up property since COVID) 3) they all were of the opinion that we are headed to a hyperinflationary hair on fire collapse of our entire economic system, and that this is now unavoidable with the eye popping amounts of "liquidity" (money printing) the fed is doing. (They have moved from intervening in the overnight funds rate to buying Treasuries, to buying junk bonds, to now buying ETFs and will soon be buying regular equities. They HAVE to, as the system is so like a junkie getting a fake money fix that we will immediately go into full blown depression if the fed tries to unwind).
I have never been the kind of guy who just sits and bitches and moans about how unfair and unjust it all is, and how the deck is stacked against the little guy, so I really want to know what can I do to hedge myself against all this insanity.
It was therefore encouraging to see MUCH bigger players than I would/could ever be telling me that my simple little community of gunner gardener preppers may be people helping me do far more than just get some tasty tomatoes on my plate this summer. Economic hedges don't just have to be gold and silver, or cryptos......
