The Great Depression: The Beginning of Prepping Prepping, at its core, is a means of protecting yourself and your family from the hardship that follows a disastrous event. One of the earliest events that inspired people to become better prepared was the Great Depression. Millions of people were left impoverished and quickly learned just how … Read more
Introducing Jim Cobb Jim Cobb has been an active prepper for over 30 years. He’s a prolific writer, having written Prepper’s Long-Term Survival Guide, Prepper’s Home Defense, and The Prepper’s Complete Book of Disaster Readiness, to name a few. Jim manages Survival Weekly, a website where he shares preparedness advice and will soon offer online classes. I was … Read more
What are Black Swan Events? In the 19th century, John Stuart Mill described seemingly impossible events that may one day be proven true as Black Swans events. In the Western world, all swans were thought to be white until, in 1697, a dutch explorer spotted black swans on the shore of the Swan River in … Read more
From Addicted to Advantaged: SHTF Coffee Guide Coffee is one of the few constants in many of our lives. We need that jolt in the morning to take on the day and our afternoon cup helps us combat post-lunch drowsiness. Our routine caffeine fix may seem necessary now, but many will be forced to break … Read more
Worse than Expected Recent headlines revealed that the impacts of climate change are even worse than initially expected. It comes as no surprise to me that researchers’ climate change models were wrong. Anticipating weather events is difficult enough, but attempting to predict the speed, scale, and effects of such a dynamic and complex phenomenon as … Read more
Unprecedented Events Another year is behind us, but what a year it was! 2018 brought us many unprecedented events, many of which involved the tech industry, geopolitical tensions, and the economy. We listened to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, provide testimony regarding a foreign government using a technology platform to influence our presidential election. While I’ve … Read more
Raising Our Children the Wrong Way Safe Space. Microaggression. Trigger Warning. These new terms have invaded the lexicon of college campuses as Generation Z (those born after 2000) begins to leave the safety of their childhood homes to attend college. Greg Lukianoff, an attorney advocating for civil liberties in academia, partnered with social psychologist Jonathan … Read more
Spending Addiction Governments across the globe have grown far too comfortable with expansionary policy. Increased military spending, entitlement programs, tax cuts, and bank bailouts simply add to the amount of debt governments owe to their lenders. As one would expect, government spending is politically popular. Tax cuts put more money in consumers’ pockets, which drives … Read more
Alternative Asset Managers Smell Opportunity In the wake of the financial crisis, banks became more tightly regulated by external authorities. Regulators put controls in place to reduce the prospect of banks growing too big to fail and to help avoid another taxpayer funded bailout. Moreover, banks changed their own lending standards in an effort to … Read more
Adapting to Life after “The Day” William Forstchen continues his story about the people of Black Mountain after an EMP strike in One Year After. Readers learn that over 80% of Americans have died in the year following the EMP strike. Over half of the population of Japan, Eastern Europe, western Russia, and the Ukraine have … Read more