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GOLDEN JACKASS 2

Yesterday we discussed what a wonderful guy Jim Willie is ( as has been pointed out here previously, anyone named James is automatically considered special and above the common Dirt People.  I’m sorry, I don’t make the rules ) and his assertion that the PetroDollar collapse already happened ( after being chipped away at for years ) and our central bank papered that over with derivatives and kicked the can down the road.  It sounds rather convincing to me, if only because you can’t have a severe decline without breaking a few eggs and derivatives have been the bankers Go To move forever.

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Now we continue on with more of the articles topics.  Actual inflation is at 10%.  Now, we all knew it was higher than actually reported, because while all those Old Humpers out there were thrown a bone and given COLA-cost of living allowance-adjustments on their Social Security, they seem to have all skipped all math classes ever and don’t realize that once the Boomers all started to retire the Ponzi Scheme couldn’t pay for all of their Florida condos and Arizona golf courses.  The official inflation rate is lower on purpose to keep all those greedy grandparents from getting bored and buying scratch off tickets all day long.  Hey, hump you!  I get to miss my kids Christmas so you can play Lotto all morning?

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And we all know about commodity cheapening.  Just three years ago I’m buying the Heeb hot dogs for under $5 for 16 ounces and now the Goyem have to pay for all those funny hats with $6, nine ounce packs.  Serves us right for being unwilling to buy $1 lips and arseholes from cancerous chicken parts.  Not only package shrink but the terrible quality.  NOL had to go buy a dryer because the apartment laundry room one had been heating up and smelling and threatening to burst into flame ( I took it apart, amongst dreadful confusion and swearing and replaced the heating coil, but it was just worse afterwards.  And that was without extra parts left over! ). 

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Of course, Home Despot had you wait for two weeks for an appliance, because, you know, hump you that’s why, so we went to the only other place in town, Sears.  They are independently owned so they have a chance of surviving the chains bankruptcy.  On a $379 dryer they would have charged another $80 for delivery and around $80 for a three year protection plan.  Those are usually not protection plans per se but rather a product lifespan guess, plus one month.  Your crap always breaks just after the plan expires.  I never get them.  Now I’m wondering if I gave GE too optimistic of a quality control guess.  I won’t start again on shoes, my hobby horse of quality decline ( one You-Tube survival guy recommends “L.A. Police Gear” for $55 boots that last over a year of hard use ).

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But JUST monetary inflation yearly is around 10%, averaged out over nearly twenty years.  Oops-ee!  That makes me a little more nervous about my cash savings.  Not that I want more silver ( putting too many eggs in one basket ).  And ammunition won’t buy food ( while in the decline ).  I’m seriously thinking about putting more cash savings into wet canned meat.  Anyway, that is all of course pre-fracking oil industry collapse.  You ain’t seen real inflation until our energy supply contracts.  10% will seem dreamy.  I was concerned about the petrodollar collapse since we still import half of our oil from overseas ( Saudi Arabia is already accepting Chinese currency for oil.  She just knows better than to not also take dollars.  Not that her oil will be a factor too much longer ).

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And that is still going to happen.  It just won’t matter then because ALL trade is boned at that time.  It wasn’t really hyperinflation as much as lack of trade for almost everything that frightened me so.  It seems that few people want our fracking oil.  It is like the Venezuela crap.  Fake oil costly to process or use.  Gold Jackass seems to think that rising prices ( through manipulating the Texas and London prices ) are one way the frackers are being subsidized to stay in business.  It makes sense as they were losing money at $100 a barrel. 

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Then there are soy beans and Chinese trade.  It is reported by GJ that a lot of soybeans are rotting in silos because the Chinese tariff tiff.  They evidently don’t need Big Ag as much as BigAg needs them.  They are getting supplies from elsewhere.  I think there is some indications we were involved in Brazilian politics, as in CIA or such.  And the Brazilian folks in charge down there are not as big of idiots as the LefTards here in this country, believing Russia is behind hacking.  They know who there enemies are, and they don’t drink vodka. So they would naturally be disposed towards Chinese wishes for agriculture commodity trades.

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Not to mention Africa.  Not only are more African nations now trading in Chinese currency for oil ( while we just send in SpecForces to try to stir up trouble ), there is a lot of ag commodities going from there to China.  This is a lot what hubris looks like, when you take conditions of prosperity from fifty years ago and insist they still apply contrary to all evidence.  We USED to be the global bread basket.  We USED to grow in fertile soil and used home grown oil to do so.  We USED to have surpluses before we filled up the place with Other Colors. 

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And one more Fun Filled Fact while we are in Africa.  Look at the map, the east cost at the Horn.  Right across from Yemen is a little turd of a country, Dijibouti.  GJ reports that China has a good stronghold there, mostly thanks to the Saudi-Yemen War.  And guess what just happened?  There was pirate activity against Saudi Oil.  I can’t imagine who was behind that.  Now, go up a bit and what do you see?  The Suez Canal.  Are you getting a strategic picture yet?

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We have already lost geopolitical control of the globe.  We can’t admit that, ‘cause ‘Murica!  We have already lost economic control, as we no longer have the key currency anymore.  We are in a period after the can has been kicked down the road but before we run out of road.  If any of you are under the assumption that Very Bad Things Economically This Way Come are not already baked into the cake, go buy an extra box of ammo.  You only need one round, but they sell them by the box only.  Get prepared to eat that bullet.

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GOLDEN JACKASS

I’m sure most of you have heard about Jim Willie, The Golden Jackass.  Now, yes, he is a bit of a Gold Whore, but he isn’t like the rest of them that are pure Austrian Economics advocates that ONLY look at finances and ignore everything else that is of teensey tinsey importance like, oh, I don’t frigging know, energy and geopolitics.  He does get a bit too worked up over the coming Global Gold Standard, which I for one don’t believe possible or realistic, but other than that he has few other negative issues.  He isn’t blaming Das Jude for all the evils of the world, for instance. 

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Basically, he understands about the PetroDollar, and Saudi Arabia oil depletion, and actually factors that in to today’s economics.  If you look at one of the few other writers who understands oil in economics, the SRS Rocco Dude ( link at my web site ), his one fault is that he gives the central bank little notice, actually believing that traders will cause the collapse of the fracking oil industry.  I am under no such illusions, and neither is the Golden Jackass.  We see the central bankers as the number one, FIRST line of evil in the world, NOT one of the bankers stooges like Big Corporations or Big Oil or Big Government.  Of course, the Jackass and I could be idiots, and SRS Rocco the smart one, just pretending to not see an evil banker under every bed, and he’ll be the last one censored.

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The reason I speak of the Golden Jackass today is because after a two month wait for our free article ( how dare he! ), he delivered what I consider his best article I’ve ever read from him over the years ( future readers, this is mid September 2018 ).  Golden Jackass dot com for your free copy.  What really caught my eye, at least initially because there is a TON of stuff in this one issue, was his claim that the PetroDollar death has already been adjusted for by the central bank here.  Waaaaa????  I’ve been worried to the point of nearly vomiting blood about the PetroDollar Collapse ( I’ve always had a brooding personality that stresses about crap I can’t control, which might benefit you all as readers and Loyal Minions but which doesn’t help an already battered and abused stomach.  Not that I’ll vomit blood over it, but sometimes it sure feels that way ).

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And now the Golden Jackass claims that, to paraphrase, “up to trillions a month in derivatives have been added to substitute for the petro-dollar dismantling”.  Keep in mind, the Golden Jackass has been talking about countries opting out of the PetroDollar for many years.  Four or five years ago Russia and China made a deal and started constructing a oil and gas pipeline project that was Russian carbon fuels for Chinese currency.  Long before that, we attacked Iraq when they started up Euro’s For Oil.  We attacked Libya when they wanted to start a regional gold standard.

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But after Libya, we have had zero victories defending the Oil$.  One country after another dropped the $ as the oil trading currency ( to remind you, it isn’t paper currency that is used, it is the US government bonds.  We used debt to buy oil for decades, and we only needed to pay interest on it, never the principle.  The problem has been that now we cannot export our debt anymore ).  Inevitably we use the Trade War card on them.  We have placed trade sanctions on Iran and Russia and now China ( more on that to follow ), and all that has done is push everyone into trading outside the dollar, with the other two nuclear powers we cannot invade.

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The one thing I have noticed about the Golden Jackass is he panics now and gives you a data nugget, and it takes a long time for him to expand on that.  But it is always a very salient point.  This is what you get with his free information.  I’m sure his subscribers are much better informed, quicker.  I would love to subscribe to his paid service publication and I’m positive it would be worth every penny, but on a bad year that would equal about 10% of my income.  It would equal my e-mail and web service fees and property taxes and bike parts  combined.  Poor folk don’t get affordable deluxe services.

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I bring up his “random teaser nuggets strewn about” point because that is all you get throughout this article.  And they are tantalizing teasers.  He covers a LOT.  For now, I’ll go back to the derivatives covering up the Oil Dollar Decline.  We all know about derivatives.  The elite use them to manipulate every market.  Want to hold down the silver price?  Play the derivatives issuance game.  Right now, without racking my brain and devoting serious time to the issue, which I might but who the hell knows, I’ve yet to figure out why the gold and silver price is manipulated lower.  I don’t buy the claim it is because it is to give credence to the dollar supremacy. 

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Why was gold “allowed” to go to $1900, but now isn’t allowed over $1300, if this is the case?  Gold has been manipulated long before that price point.  Why isn’t silver manipulated higher to cause hardship for the Chinese, as they are THE major Industrial Silver user?  It doesn’t make sense that we would be helping our enemies Buy On The Dip.  But be that as it may, I’m convinced that there is a metric butt ton of paper silver out there, hundreds of times the physical supply, if not higher.  For what purpose other than lowering the price, I don’t know.  Sure, it could be as simple as one player is simply making millions everyday as he moves the spot price pennies up and then pennies down.

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I guess nothing should surprise me, when it comes to derivatives.  They are THE way to make money these days, and that was true for decades ( from the first deindustrialization moves in the 80’s when financialization really took over the economy, to moving entire government economies around as in Orange County California or the Russians, to the now infamous housing bubble ), building in importance, and recently it was really the only way to make enough hooker and blow money.

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So it makes sense that the central bank got out ahead of the shrinking PetroDollar system by using derivatives, protecting its interests AND profiting at the same time.  In a way, I feel like a complete dumbass for not thinking about this obvious move.  Of course, in my defense, I have a lot of different areas to keep track of and ponder, and most of you always bleat and carry on whenever I talk about, you know, only the most important resource effecting your entire life, oil.  So, I think we can safely discount an immediate economic collapse when Country X stops accepting the Oil Dollar, being the straw that broke the camels back.  One wonders if it already would have happened without central bank intervention.

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In one way, as a disinterested observer, this stuff would be seen as rather interesting.  How cool is it that once again the entire world economy almost bit the big one, the banks pushed in trillions in derivatives to save the day ( just like 2008 ), and nobody noticed until much later?  The downside to this intervention is of course that while we survived longer before collapse turns the decline decidedly more deadly, it also makes the inevitable crash more likely and worse when it happens.  Continued tomorrow.

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BATTLE RIFLE BOOK 9

BEST 30 CAL RIFLE

If you have decided that a full cartridge rifle is for you, you have a few choices.  Each one has both problems and advantages.  Just as with the carbines, each will have its own dedicated chapter to follow, but here you need to decide mainly by price point.  I no longer consider the Garand a viable option, it being nothing but overpriced junk to pick from now ( just like my beloved Enfield has sadly become ), and that leaves you the AR, the HK, the M-14, Galil  or FN-FAL.  Next, I discard the Galil due to uncertain pricing and availability and spare parts issues. 

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Now, let me just get this out of the way.  The AR-10 is a piece of crap by most accounts.  It is also a VERY cheap piece of crap.  And if you use it in its proper role as a sniper rather than a spray and pray, it will probably-not guaranteed, but probably-work okay.  Not great, but okay.  You will find with thirty cal semi’s, you very closely get exactly what you pay for.  For $500, you can get an AR-10, and they are the worst.  For $1,000 you get one of the better G-3’s ( although you’ll find the rifle regardless of manufacture shares a very undesirable Achilles Heel ), and if you can’t quite swing that you can get them for $700, although you would be advised to either afford the $1k or do without.

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You used to be able to get the Soviet sniper for a grand, but what is offered now is a civilian version which isn’t an option.  That is a shame.  It wasn’t all that accurate, but it was for a designated marksman rather than a sniper anyway.  They made snipers out of users of the Mosin-Nagant, so that tells you they at least have the capacity of trying to modify tactics to match to the less than perfect weapon.  So, at the lower end you get either a $500 rifle or one for a grand.  After that, you jump to $1500. 

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Now you get to choose between accuracy or ruggedness, again just like the carbines.  The M-14 is the more accurate one although I’ve read it is a bit more delicate, a bit more needy of an armorers attention more often.  Less robust but a more accurate rifle-I see no issue with this trade off, just beware of this feature and be able to provide for it.  To me, accuracy with semi thirties is usually crap, no better than much cheaper options, so if a M-14 is as accurate as they claim this would be a very good thing indeed.  I don’t care for delicateness, but the other option is wasting ammunition.  It is a trade-off either way.

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That leaves the FN-FAL, at about the same price as the M-14.  But which you get a much more rugged weapon which was battle proven far longer on a much wider scale than the M-14 ever was ( I can’t see the M-14 as a sniper rifle leaving much of a record, since they are given far more lavish attention than a grunts rifle anyway ).  The G-3 was used by many militaries but the FN-FAL saw a lot more combat.  And the troops seem to have universally loved it.  It is hard to tell if the M-14 was loved on its own merits or if it was just a far better alternative to the then Crappy Corporate Colt junk that was given to kill off the GI’s far quicker than the Viet Cong could manage ( Hump Colt.  I’ll never buy one of their guns, not even used ).

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If it was my decision, I would use the following criteria.  Am I a good shot?  If not, I’d use the FN-FAL at much shorter ranges.  It should last longer with fewer problems.  If I was a marksman I’d go with the M-14 and have plans and parts in place for its more fickle nature.  Those are your two best rifles to pick from.  If I was hurting for money but not desperate, I might consider the $1,000 PTR-91.  I could then get a second clone for $700, the Century Arms version.  Even if I had to buy both in Century Arms, while they are not great they would work good enough IF I knew I always had the advantage of distance.  Close in, I’d worry about the G3’s and the AR-10’s because they simply are NOT reliable enough long term.  With distance, quality control is less of a worry.  This way I could get two rifles of middlin quality for the cost of one great one.

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If I was just too damn dirt poor to pay attention, I would stick with the AR-10, as you can own two for the price of one middlin rifle.  So, you can own two great rifles for $3k, two middlin rifles for $1500 or two crappy rifles for $1k.  If I was even poorer than that, my only choice is to revert back to the carbines.  It would be a tight race but you could in theory own two AR-15’s for $500 if you made a lot of compromises.  But let’s return focus on the Battle Thirties.  As you can see, this is NOT a cheap option.  Your ammo costs double and your rifles cost two to three times as much.  A lot of this has to do with lack of popularity.

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If you return to yesteryear, the last time thirties were affordable was almost twenty years ago.  You could say the same about houses or health care.  It sucks, because you had almost ninety years where there was always cheap war surplus rifles of one kind or another available to the poorest person.  That is completely over and done with now.  As the Industrial Oil Age sputters and dies, so does the benefits it allowed.  Such as affordable weapons of higher quality.  You can still get crap quality, more affordable than ever as companies desperately strive to avoid bankruptcy.

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And THAT phase of the decline is almost over.  So you need to decide NOW, what can you afford in multiples and nut up and buy the damn things no matter how much it hurts.  Because the pain will just increase, until the supply decreases to the point they are no longer an option.  Act now, or you never will be able to act.  This applies double to affordable ammo.  If you can’t afford your weapon of choice, in multiples, AND all the ammunition you think you need, NOW, you are quickly going to run out of time and options.  If you can’t afford full power thirty caliber, go with carbines.  It is definitely better than what you will end up with which is nothing.

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HONEY BADGER STOCK 2

Imagine you are a bank.  A central bank, not some Christmas Miracle Mom&Pop retail establishment.  You create money out of thin air and the government pays you interest on that.  No, they don’t just create money to enrich themselves, they need the consent and protection of the government with its monopoly on force.  The interest is their income for doing all the hard work of creating money out of nothing.  Since they had to lower interest rates to keep the economy moving along after their primary resource of oil started declining ( GROSS energy is climbing, but NET energy is declining ), they needed to make many new loans to make up for declining revenue.

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Oops-ee!  You made too many NINJA loans and enough went bust that you nearly imploded the whole economy ( along with loaning money to all those idiots in local government who thought the housing bubble would last forever, spending on stupid crap like more employees who would then break the pension fund ).  Well, that was a stupid business model anyway.  Only 5% interest?  Screw that!  Take over all the housing and turn them into rentals.  A MUCH better return.  You just pay a property management company a small fee to collect rents.  Then most of that sweet rental income is yours.  And screw maintenance!  We didn’t lose actual money on that construction loan.  At most, just the hypothetical lost interest payments.

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Every swinging cheese dingus out there lives in the East with a few honorary Yankee Scum on the Left Coast, so the place is just jam packed with insurance customers.  What a sweet deal for more free money.  Oh, CRAP!!! What do you mean we Gore Warmed the planet extracting all its resources and burning all its carbon fuels to make money?!?!  Does that mean we’ll see actual hurricanes?  And have to pay out on insurance claims!  Well, that sucks.  Quick, make medical insurance mandatory.

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And, WHOA!, what the heck do you mean people are going to want medical care?  We have to pay back on this insurance also?  This is really dipping into my hooker and blow fund, dude!  Kill off those whiney demanding customers with opiates and quack medical practices.  Don’t worry, more healthy 21 year olds will start paying insurance every year to replace profits.  And no, Spankey, I’m not saying this is a giant smoke filled backroom conspiracy.  I’m saying that when you create money you rule the world, and all that is needed is a profit and loss motivation to move levers.

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The Industrialists elected Lincoln and he was their Meat Puppet.  War was wonderful for the factories.  Obammy was some two bit drug dealing homosexual prostitute from Kenya who gave the bankers, our new overlords since Industrialization declined in profitability, exactly what they wanted.  Insurance money and Student Loan money is a lot more lucrative than the declining work force consumption loans.  That included housing.  When all the loan money saving Detroit jacked up autos to Not Long Ago The Cost Of A House levels, used cars shot up in price and auto loans got a lot more profitable.

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So, mortgages fell out of favor and rentals made the banks much more money, and all those old loans to suburbia made everyone dependent on cars, which were priced insanely high to make those loans more profitable.  But then, with those two factors, PLUS yearly doubling of medical insurance, and replacing those whiney McDonald’s workers with robots driving up unemployment, suddenly there is close to zero money for shopping at the mall or in any retailer other than fast food.  And even eating out in endangered.  Look at how much trouble Home Despot and notLowePrices got into when the house flipping phase ended.  No one wanted all those granite countertops, warped wood and poisonous Chinese pieces of sheetrock anymore.  Tool companies consolidated into CheapChineseToolCo. 

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Look at the state of the fast food industry.  It takes $10 to fill yourself up, on meat dishes that are 40% sawdust.  I can’t see how more people aren’t cooking at home.  I’m glad they are not, so that 99cents a pound boneless pork doesn’t get jacked up to $4 like it used to be, but I’m amazed the transition hasn’t occurred.  Not much of anything is doing well retail wise ( and the magical Retail Killer Amazon is only making profit off of the stock market bubble ).  Even those companies doing well, such as Kroger and Dollar Tree are in danger due to the loans taken to consolidate.

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Wal-Mart drove a lot of grocery stores to bankruptcy ( before they themselves were almost there ) and Kroger fed off of that.  But is it sustainable?  Family Dollar who expanded massively ( being too impatient for Dollar General to kill itself doing the same ), AND then bought Dollar Tree.  Which seems bizarre to me as how much longer, even under nominal inflation, can there be dollar stores?  Unless the plan all along is to move a few dollar items into Family Dollar and eventually turn the Trees into Family’s.  Regardless, lots of debt that killed once giants like Woolworth or Sears or Circuit City.

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If you look at most industries or most businesses, it seems to me that once there is no stock market bubble, and if big banks stop loaning again like they did before, I cannot see ANY retailers surviving as currently structured.  Without cheap loans, I’d imagine 9 out of 10 businesses would go under.  And that is being optimistic.

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What will remain?  Drive through any ghetto area and you’ll see the nationwide future of business.  Small immigrant run convenience stores for food, if you are lucky a Mom&Pop mini grocery store that actually sells non-junk food, but at near the mark-ups of those convenience stores ( I believe NYC has this model in “bodega‘s”? ) check cashing places and car lots that “only” charge 15% for its better credit customers, 25% for most everyone else.  So say goodbye to low prices, because without low interest loans and the stock market bubble paying profits this is what you’ll get.

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Will larger retailers survive in the lower rent suburbs?  Sure, at much increased prices.  As the pressure on the cost of auto ownership skyrockets, can you see their customer base staying the same?  Or will the numbers drop?  They either jack up their prices to compensate or they go out of business.  Will there be lots of unlicensed small businesses?  Sure.  But shopping as we know it is going to change drastically.  And soon. 

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HONEY BADGER STOCK

I think at times it can be a bit confusing just what the hell happened the last ten years.  We easily can get confused that, ultimately, no matter how bad things are, we escaped the worst of the economic collapse of 2008.  And Peak Oil.  And we are still insulated from the rest of the world.  We aren’t eating zoo animals or seeing hundreds of percent inflation yearly.  And I’ve kept telling you that all the “good enough” we are seeing could end suddenly.  I’ve mentioned the end of the PetroDollar ushering in hyperinflation here ( or, at a minimum, bare shelves of most everything-same difference, unaffordable or unavailable ).

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Charles Hugh Smith had an interesting article just out September 12th or 13^th on linear verses non-linear ( his example was a linear movement of snow makes a path, a non-linear move creates an avalanche.  And BTW, try the sample chapters on his new fiction book.  I never cared for his non-fiction, too flowery and puffy, but he seems to have hit his stride in fiction.  I even bought the book ), and you all know what he is talking about.  Everything is connected now and a small event overseas can effect you here far more than you’d think.  You know, the butterfly effect.

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But I think all that is too abstract to really get most folks worried or moving.  I want to try something that, at least for me, is more pertinent.  Well, it USED to be pertinent.  I used to actually believe that the stock market was an economic indicator.  It is all just as much of a Potemkin Village as the rest of the economy, really.  Like colleges look good pretending to educate and hospitals look good at pretending to heal you.  And that is the scary part.  Companies just put on a puppet show pretending to have a business that sells a viable product or service.

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I’ve used Amazon as an example many times.  It makes actual profit in cloud services, then sells all its physical products at or below cost ( not that I’m complaining, you understand ), and at irregular intervals Bezos dips a few more billion out from cashing in his stock.  Netflix is the same, free riding on the Internet and yet still losing money, but enriching its masters through the stock market bubble.  Companies don’t care about profit as much as they do the stock market bubble which gives the illusion they are profitable.

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If this was JUST one or two companies it wouldn’t matter, but it is MOST public companies.  Watch a YouTube video on the chain Dollar General.  I used to work for them and it is amazing how much the company has changed for the worse.  I used to be able to shop at Sav-A-Lot for incredibly cheap groceries and then get almost everything else I needed at Dollar General.  They were much cheaper than Wal-Mart.  When they expended west ( previously they stopped about the 100^th meridian ) I went into one of their stores and it was completely different.  No more selling to the working poor, now they were just a mini department store without the cheapest prices.

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It was a mini K-Mart, with just as much crap I’d never want to buy.  They used to be rather church-y and had for the longest time closed on Sundays and Christmas and such.  Now, they are selling booze and cigarettes ( I actually went to work for them after my second sting operation fining me for selling to a minor-I didn’t want there to be a third time, and they sold no vices ).  I found out they had sold out to a private equity firm, then after clearing out any old religious prudes taken it public again.  The whole business is looking sad and pathetic now.

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Why are you running fifteen thousand retail stores that are doing poorly?  I would imagine they are losing money, but someone is making a killing on the stock.  Whenever someone is losing money like Sam‘s Club, the business media always seems to hold up Family Dollar/Dollar Tree and Dollar General as the bright spots in retail ( “as ObammyCare rapes you in the ass, the discount stores see a 43% increase YOY” ).  That is always good to bring in the suckers to bid up your stock price ( has anyone seen many customers in Dollar General?  I never seem to, and this is over in more populated areas ).

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Wages can’t be much of a burden to these failing retailers.  I imagine they employ one or two people at a time.  Rent is probably kicking their ass, and I imagine from visiting them, so is inventory.  They don’t seem to build in Just In Time Inventory shortages like most do ( you have to wonder how far that goes towards ensuring popularity, being the only store in town not running out of crap all the time ).  So without enough turnover, those costs have got to be steadily draining the coffers.  Look at K-Mart.  Even a store going out of business lacks too many customers ( of course, you can’t sell Wal-Mart quality crap at +50% over Wal-Mart and expect much business.  Wal-Mart is high as it is, a long time removed from Low Price Leader )

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If Amazon is losing money, everything it does to sell MORE loses them more money, which is why I’d imagine you won’t see local drone delivery anytime soon.  If Dollar General is opening more stores and putting even more inventory in there, even as it loses customers, they are losing even more money.  Their stock mining has got to be worth it.  How many companies are run by Honey Badger ( “he don’t give a s**t” ) CEO’s and boards of directors?  Look at the appliance makers, throwing away a century of reputation over its quality for a few quarters of extra profit.  Look at Facebook trying to alienate most of its customers, cheat its advertisers, for a higher stock price.

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When everyone is making all their profits off of losing money from customers to cash in on a stock market bubble, what happens when that bubble pops?  No matter how dedicated to building retaining walls the central bank is, that avalanche eventually gets big enough to still take out the town.  Let’s talk about when the market implodes, and how it looks when that 70% of the economy ( consumer spending ) is decimated.  My guess is this is deliberate to expand the bankers profits by sucking in as much of that percentage as possible.  Obviously it isn’t sustainable, but the banks are probably as desperate as the Dollar General CEO is now.  They were propping up the retail sector to finance consumerism.  Now that this money is drying up, time to bankrupt and strip the copper from the walls.  Continued tomorrow.

( .Y. )

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budget creep

BUDGET CREEP

We are all familiar with budget creep.  Every time you make more money, you add new items to your budget that then somehow become necessities rather than the luxuries they started out as.  Granted, this really hasn’t been a Thing for the last decade.  Between losing jobs to minorities, losing hours to ObamaCare, or losing homes to tripled property tax and now living out of a van by the river, there is rarely such as a thing as making MORE money anymore.  It is all about making less. 

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And that is where budget creep gets folks in trouble.  They cemented those new luxuries into necessities decades ago and can’t remember how to live without them.  One example that keeps coming to my mind was actually from my father.  My whole life I rarely saw him lose his cool.  He was stoic and uncomplaining.  You could go twenty years in between outbursts.  So it surprised the hell out of me when he lost his crap over the heater in the winter.  Stepmom was talking about turning down the heat, and he came up with something ridiculous about “I’m not going to sit around the living room in a down jacket.  You keep the temperature up and I don’t care how much it cost”.

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Remember, here was a guy that wouldn’t complain about wives raping him financially or old bosses blackballing him from an industry, and he wasn’t going to stay uncomfortable in his own house.  I didn’t blame him, what with still no pot to piss in after sixty years of working ( step mom keeps him alive to keep his retirement at 100%.  Once he kicks it, it goes to 50% to her.  I love the women, but she makes Jews look like college freshmen on spring break ).  The least he could have was a little heat to stay comfortable.  Plus, you know, Old People Cold is at 90 degrees.  Having said that, he was a bit spoiled.

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Growing up in southern California, then living in slightly less warm climes in an era of well affordable utilities, to him a house had to be shirtsleeve sitting comfortable.  That was a form of luxuries seen as necessities.  Don’t get me wrong, a man works for zero compensation his whole life ( other than the “pleasure” of seeing each new wife Less Miserable because he worked for their sole benefit.  I don’t know what it is about California women.  They have got to be the most miserable bitches on the planet ), he deserves one of the few luxuries he insists on.  It is just used illustratively. 

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You know how everything is all fun and games until someone loses an eye?  Well, budget creep is all fun and games during times of increased salary, isn’t it?  When the thing goes the other way, pandemonium reigns.  People go absolutely bat crap crazy, judging their very worth by their appearance of the ability to waste money on frivolous luxuries.  And they buy their own bullspit.  I’m tired, I deserve to go out and eat.  My mom got to not cook about twice a year on her birthday and Mother’s Day ( unless she was buying ).  But nowadays people eat out half of their food budget? 

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The NOL’s kid doesn’t work, but she has the new truck that has a payment I’ve never even seen on rent, and the husband has the paid-for beater.  And yet, HE was the one who insisted on that.  That truck with unaffordable payment is his validation of being a good provider.  Dude, your wife doesn’t miss any meals.  I think you provide just fine.  Not that you can tell people anything like this.  Necessities, or at least as necessary to them, are doubling in price and wages are stagnant, but wages still got up to nosebleed levels ( from my perspective ) and folks just kept buying all those luxuries turned necessities. 

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When did medical insurance become a necessity?  We all remember a time when only the upper middle class had a job that provided medical benefits.  The rest of the folks passed on it since it was 20% of your pay.  Now that it is double that, suddenly folks think it is necessary?  And that was BEFORE ObammyCare.  The Illegal Muslim just forced people into the system as it was set to implode from over pricing, yet folks had begun to think of it as vital and as fundamental as oxygen prior to that.  I mean, sure, I understand all the Boomers were retiring and the culture change was from the Most Selfish Generation thinking that any lifespan under ninety was an affront to God, but I still can’t accept that mass hallucination.

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Once you are crapping yourself and taking twenty-three pills a day to keep yourself alive, isn’t it time to perhaps think of calling BS on living way past your prime, in pain and embarrassment?  Laughs on you bitches, ‘cause Death Panels really are a thing ( you Go!, Hockey Mom ).  You’ll go gently into that opiate clouded night unless you have someone that can keep you out of the clutches of the medical industry.  I guess I should stop there on THAT subject.

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Whenever I bring up not owning a car, 99% of you look at me like I’ve started to grow a dingus out of my forehead.  Yes, I understand one day I’ll get hit by some little bastard just like you that worships the automobile, and then you all can have the last laugh, but until then not hallucinating that a car is a necessity allows me to live on nearly no income.  While still prepping.  Sure, very small amounts of prepping, along with very few book purchases, but I was also running out of room for both anyway ( and that is with three RV’s for storage, plus a basement ).  Less money means I can finally enjoy my life and my time rather than parcel it out to a corporation. 

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Negative Budget Creep is actually not as difficult as most people believe.  And, heck, it is actually fun because it is antisocial.  Men envy you your freedom and women want to have your baby ( you need to be a starving artist for this to apply-poverty only works as an aphrodisiac when coupled to an alpha male creative.  Then the gals don’t need you as the provider because he is one she is cuckolding on for you ).   If you don’t have at least a quarter of your monthly pay as savings, you are doing things wrong.  And to get there, you are relying on positive feedback.  Budget creep upwards is easy because you never deviate away from All Money In, All Money Out.  And yet, budget creep down is just as easy because everything you eliminate as a bill is money in your pocket.  You just think it is hard because you refuse to acknowledge necessities as luxuries.

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battle rifle book 8

BATTLE RIFLE BOOK 8

WHICH CARBINE

There are really only two questions you have to ask yourself when deciding which semi-auto battle weapon you wish to own.  First, you must fit your choice into your budget, with the One Is None rule in mind.  Second, you need to decide which is more important to you, accuracy or reliability.  Each decision has a info dump of research worth of argument, but boiled down that is essentially what all the fuss is about.  Back when war surplus was begging to be bought, you had two choices.  The Lee-Enfield for field reliability or the Mauser for accuracy.  The third choice wasn’t really a choice, as it was one of the worst weapons ever, but if you were super duper poor, there was the Russian Mosin-Nagant.

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I made a large amount of noise over the years against the Russian bolt, and I know I’m right, but I never denied it had its place.  Which is, everyone deserves to be armed.  Almost all federal laws pertaining to guns are an outgrowth of the original local laws on guns, which, to not put too fine of a point on it, didn’t want Negro’s to own any.  Bring that one up to your darling Liberal friends and family.  Of course, we are now a gentler kinder nation and now it is an equal opportunity discrimination and ALL poor people regardless of color are to be denied a firearm if at all possible.  That is class warfare, literally. 

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I’m opposed to the gun check fees for just this reason.  While you used to be able to get a $50 pot metal Saturday Night Special, now that is almost double the price because of that fee ( and I‘m sure the sales tax is on the total cost-sorry, it‘s been a few years since I‘ve bought any guns.  I‘ve had an upcoming apocalypse I‘ve been buying food for ).  It was bad enough putting the serial number on paper for a record the Feds could get, now it is easily computerized ( I’ll make my case for unregistered guns later on ).  When you make guns unaffordable to X amount of the population, to me that is just wrong on all levels.  I don’t care how crappy a gun is, it’s better than standing there clutching your dingus when a gunfight starts.

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So, even if a Mosin-Nagant was going to blow up in face eventually, it still kept you alive until then.  But we can’t have cheap imported guns!  Obammy The Muslim Whore made sure those hunks of crap were no longer an option for the poor survivalist.  Easy for him, since even without lifetime Secret Service protection all he had to do was get someone to ghost write another book for him ( writing books is tough when English is your second language ) and get a few more million in speaking fees ( your kids college debt at work ), and he can afford the best guns available.  

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But getting back to the second criteria, do you want accuracy or do you want ruggedness?  It used to be this was an easily solved problem, if you were not extra super sized poor, and the HK-91 ( G-3, CTME, same difference ) was touted as the best of both worlds by, well, Every Single Cheese Dingus out there, ever.  Unfortunately, that turned out to be a lie, but, teaser alert, I’ll cover that in its own section.  Forget all the other carbines out there, because while a LOT of them are far better, and not ALWAYS for a kings ransom, the only real choices at this point are the AK or the AR.

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And, hold up there Rugar fan boys.  The choices have to be affordable AND have a metric crap ton of affordable accessories out there.  And, if I might be so bold, shouldn’t have a reputation for needing it sent back to the factory for repairs.  So, no, sorry, the Mini-14 is to me not even an option.  Which is sad, because it has a good lineage.  So do a lot of banjo players up in the hollers.

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Now, you all know that the AK is apocalypse rugged and that the AR is nice and accurate if a little too dainty for real world long term battlefield use.  It has improved, greatly, I reluctantly admit.  And at least currently it can be half the price of an AK.  I don’t give the AK a free pass because of that price issue.  You can survive a tank running over you but if you are too dear for my budget I have to pass on ownership.  And, let us keep in mind, while your AK will last a really long time, your AR can be replaced nearly every week of the year since there are just so darn many of them out there.  Plus, spare parts are wicked stupid cheap.  So it is far from a cut and dried choice.

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Me, I am a terrible shooter, even with an AR.  I know I could improve, given practice, but I choose to avoid that 80/20 problem ( 80% of the cost to improve at most 20% ) by just not pretending to be a sniper.  I chose reliability over accuracy for this reason, but I expect most folks don’t think this way.  The AK is really accurate enough out a bit past 200 yards ( don’t ask for it to perform at 300.  Pro’s don’t do great at that range with this round ).  Hell, I can barely see that far with enough detail.  But if you want the option of 400-500 yard shots, you need to just stay with the AR.

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Not only is the AR more accurate, you can buy good performance ammo much cheaper ( 223 brass at thirty cents, where the 762 steel case ammo is terrible stuff past short distances and only a dime cheaper.  So you could even reload the 223 to a certain extent ).  I don’t buy into the ammo salvage or the ammo purchase argument.  To me, ammo is too dear and will run out very fast.  So I don’t care to pretend I can salvage, buy or share “common caliber” ammo.  Which is why having 303 British never bothered me.  And why having an imported round shouldn’t bother you.  What you enter the apocalypse with is all you will ever get.  Period.  You should choose your caliber based on its performance.  It is my contention the 762 is a superior short range round.  223/556 is just more versatile and cheaper.  Just like a assault rifle, the 223 does more things, just not as well at any one role.

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The AR isn’t as much of a pig molester as it used to be as far as jamming and carbon build up causing issues in the field.  I hated the weapon for just such reasons, but my experiences were with the A1.  Your experiences will be more positive with the A2 and M4 varieties.  However, the weapon is still far more flimsy and will NOT hold up to too much abuse in the field.  It isn’t as cut and dried as it used to be, however.  Now they are so cheap they have taken over the role of disposable weapon from the SKS or War Surplus or even in many cases the AK’s. 

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All this is covered in more detail in their own sections, but by and large an AK will get you an extra layer of ruggedness and the AR will improve your accuracy.  Recent improvements and price movements have slightly altered the dynamic but the fundamentals have remained the same.  If you want a weapon that will go through heavy abuse for a long time, you stick with an AK, despite its disadvantages.  If you want better accuracy cheaper, with better ammo, and that will fill more roles, you pick the AR despite its fragility.

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