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02.09.10- Protecting Yourself from the Giant New Deficit
For every dollar in debt that Americans have paid off since they started cleansing their balance sheets in mid-2008, the U.S. government has borrowed more than $7. All the hard work by consumers to replenish their piggy banks may be for naught if big government budget deficits play havoc with the economy. Read More 02.08.10- Markets! Finance! Scandal!
This time Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the scandals behind Hank Paulson's memoir allegations, Hilary Clinton's threats to cut China's energy supply, and Barack Obama's big, big budget. Keiser also talks to former economic hitman John Perkins about whether or not the United States is now being attacked by economic hitmen. View Video 02.06.10- Avoiding Wealth Confiscation...With Profit!
"In the absence of the gold standard there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation... Deficit Spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights." - Alan Greenspan, 1966 (!) Protection and enhancement of wealth is an ever-increasing challenge. Read More 02.05.10- Top 10 ways to avoid a tax audit
The IRS continually cites bad math as one of the top errors on tax returns. Making math mistakes on your tax return will get you noticed -- and not in a good way. While the IRS will generally just correct your mistake and send you a bill, too many math errors might indicate a level of carelessness that causes your return to be flagged. Read More 02.04.10- Endgame
This becomes especially problematic in times like the present, when apocalyptic prophecy is a central trope in the popular culture that frames a people's hopes and fears for the future. When the collective imagination becomes obsessed with the dream of a sudden cataclysm that sweeps away the old world overnight and ushers in the new, even relatively rapid social changes can pass by unnoticed. Read More 02.03.10- And Now for Something Entirely Different...
Editor's Note: This video was sent to me by one of our contributors. Viewing it gave me goose bumps and brought tears to my eyes. Enjoy. - JSB) View Video 02.02.10- Emigrate Now, Avoid the Rush
02.01.10- This huge U.S. blue chip virtually guaranteed to go bankrupt
It's always interesting to see how companies handle a crisis. The gap between what managers should tell shareholders and what they actually say is always greatest when the news is truly dire. With that in mind, let's take a peek at GE's latest earnings announcement... Read More 01.30.10- Surviving Economic Collapse: Tips, Tactics, And Gear
A large part of our society operates on a disturbing assumption, a belief that has been driven into the very fabric of our culture for generations; the assumption that preparation for disaster is unnecessary because all will remain the same as it always has been. Read More 01.29.10- Geronimo!
01.28.10- The Coming Obama Retirement Trap Has Started!
01.27.10- And Now for Something Entirely Different...Hold Yor Breath
01.26.10- Fight Back
If you are tired of the Wall Street bankster bailout program at taxpayers expense but feel helpless to do anything about it then keep reading. If record profits for the big six banks (and big bonuses for the executives there) that took your tax dollars makes you wonder exactly who is in charge then read on. If you get upset about the Goldman Sachs executive retirement plan (become US Treasury Sec and cash out lifetime personal portfolio tax free AND help out your old pals on Wall Street) for Wall Street banksters then get ready to fight back. Read More Silver
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How to Keep the Scary U.S. Debt From Eating Up Your Assets
"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the banks." - Lord Acton, 1834-1902 
"Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That's a red flag." -- Jay Leno 
I've mentioned more than once in these essays the foreshortening effect that textbook history can have on our understanding of the historical events going on around us. The stark chronologies most of us get fed in school can make it hard to remember that even the most drastic social changes happen over time, amid the fabric of everyday life and a flurry of events that can seem more important at the time. 
Only a few years late to the party, publications like Forbes, Business Week
and the WSJ recently ran articles on preppers, who they call the new survivalists.
Just last week, Yahoo Finance featured an investment advisor who counselled
that a well-balanced portfolio should include stored food, water and arable
land. He didn't specify, but shortages are predicted so I suppose you'll want
to take physical delivery of that stuff. Marc Faber, BTW, is giving the same
advice and so is Jim Rogers. 
(Editor's Note: It's our pensions and retirement accounts that are about to come under fire. General Electric has been a perennial favorite among fund managers the world over. If/when GE goes down, it will set dominos falling in hundreds of different directions. Does your retirement account have exposure to GE? Get your heads out of the sand and prepare yourselves. - JSB)
(Editor's Note: We have recently discovered a web site that provides an impressive array of articles on a very diverse set of topics. The following tutorial from Mr. Bruno of 
As a former army parachutist with a bad head for heights, I recall standing
in the doorway of an aircraft while my jumping instructor shouted: "Don't look
down!" He understood that my unease with parachuting combined with the sight
of thousands of feet of open air could be enough to elicit panic. Many investors
in today's American stock and bond markets appear to be getting the same advice.
While in my predicament, I had a parachute and a rudimentary understanding
of how to use it, I fear that American investors have nothing to break their
fall. 
(Editor's Note: This morning I received, what I believe to be, one of the most important documents I have ever posted on "the Bear". In our on-going attempt to "let you know, in our opinion, how current events will affect your pocketbook", this one ranks right up there. Mr. Holland brings to light the recent executive legislation that is intended to feloniously steal your retirement. Obama is like a stock broker I knew many years ago. His motto was: "I can take your worthless equity and turn it into valuable commissions almost overnight". In my 2004 missive, 
If they are "too big to fail" let's help them get smaller and make our national banking system healthier...
