Once upon a time ...

Once upon the next time, there was a man, Ovis Arie, who viewed the world as most of his kind did, he wore rose coloured glasses, tweed pants, and penny loafers. Such was the way of the urban young, professional in business as usual. When he was very young, he was wild and free, but life goes from begining to end, and waits in no man land....

I've been sitting here today thinking about getting more work. I currently do house painting, trying desperately to avoid working as an information broker. Although as an information broker I make more money per job, the recession has put those projects to few and far between, I'd make more money working at McBarfs in Alberta.

Trade jobs tend to last longer when you get the work, but competition is increasing to the point that I worry about having enough work this summer. I've done swamping, which is really bad for my back, but I might have no other choice but to do it again between painting jobs.

I dropped by www.survivalistboards.com which has a sticky forum thread on the subject to see what others have come up with, and was given a few ideas, but it made me think about income after wshtf.

I think our current greatest threat is economic disaster, even here in Canada. And it is likely to be a very slow painful decent into the abyss. During the transition between this and that, property taxes will still likely be collected, my number one concern for the farm. Hence the need for a depression proof source of income.

I'd like to continue my opinion on investments for preppers by adding somethings that have occurred to me. These suggestions have mostly to do with a conversation I had last night with Mushroom in the chat room, which has to do with the actual preps we tend to collect.

Introduction:

Before I begin this post, I need to clarify two things. First, I am not a stock broker, I am an information broker, and there is a huge difference. Stock brokers deal with trade-able certificates of shares in public companies, Information Brokers deal with data, research and the like, often hired primarily to find information and translate it into layman's terms. I am not offering financial advise here, but rather how to get it. Second, my purpose is to inform the average survivalist on certain limited aspects of money, investments, and getting the information you need to make informed decisions to keep the buying power of your dollar rather then make more. In other words, if you want to learn how to make money off of investments your reading the wrong blog, if however you want to be able to buy a roll of toilet paper for the same amount of effort in the future as it costs you in labor today, keep reading.

A chain of thought is like a chain letter, in this case anyway.

I am currently not feeling to well, and was just trying to relax tonight, so I figured I do a be of reading when I came across a post I think you should all read.

It's on The American Energy Crisis blog, and he got it from Zero Hedge, so I'll just point you in that direction. But before I do, I'd like to add my two cents worth.

This is something that is not new, nor is it only being thought of by Preppers and libertarians alike. This economic crisis is something that can not be avoided, but what is more important then that is what Greg T. Jeffers says in the last sentence on the post...

READ IT HERE

- Wolfe