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www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents Charles Hugh Smith and Rick Ackerman joined us today for another investment roundtable, and what to do with your retirement investments was a big topic. Each day, the government gets more desperate in their frantic search for new revenues to keep the bankrupt system afloat. Therefore, the multi-trillion dollar pool of private retirement savings becomes an ever more irresistible target for a rapacious congress, which is more concerned about feeding itself than helping Americans through the current economic malaise. This concept led to a discussion of survival investing and where to safely store your money. Charles introduced the...

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents Larken Rose, a noted libertarian, perhaps bordering on anarchist, spoke at the Ron Paul/End the Fed Rally in Philadelphia, this Sunday, 4/22/2012. Rose was quite impassioned, and he rallied the crowd. His perspective on government is that the functions it performs, it performs badly; individuals acting in concert could do a much better job. Rose's belief is that while limited government is a worthy goal of any society, in actuality it never works out the way it's intended to. Once Da Boyz have been given the right to tax, this quickly becomes the right to steal. This is...

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents Teachers in Buffalo New York are up in arms. The State has mandated teachers receive evaluations in order for the schools to receive additional funding. The Teachers' Union has defied the State and refuses to allow evaluations. This all comes to you compliments of a debt based monetary system, which acts to perpetuate corrupt government schemes and ensures that union members get to line their pockets at retirement time, sometimes after just 25 years or less. New York will be completely insolvent in a very short time and will have to rely upon the Federal government to print...

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents The uber Nannies believe that your freedom is what makes the world such a messed up place. If only you could be controlled just a bit more, things would be so much better. Whether it's smoking in New York City, donating "unhealthy" food to the poor, closing nightclubs and dance halls in Weston Florida, banning lead in hunting ammo, or banning feeding and hunting of deer, freedom is lingering in the horizon. Please don't take anything for granted. Will Da Boyz be coming for your guns? Your gold? How about your IRA or 401k? Don't be surprised, these...

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents The uber Nannies believe that your freedom is what makes the world such a messed up place. If only you could be controlled just a bit more, things would be so much better. Whether it's smoking in New York City, donating "unhealthy" food to the poor, closing nightclubs and dance halls in Weston Florida, banning lead in hunting ammo, or banning feeding and hunting of deer, freedom is lingering in the horizon. Please don't take anything for granted. Will Da Boyz be coming for your guns? Your gold? How about your IRA or 401k? Don't be surprised, these...

http://financialsurvivalnetwork.com/ presents Jeff Berwick of the erstwhile www.DollarVigilante.com has written a report entitled, Getting Your Gold out of Dodge. Jeff believes that as governments get more desperate and continue to run out of money, they will resort to outright confiscation of their citizen's wealth and assets. This has already occurred in places like Argentina and Ireland and in many other countries. We saw this trend in Argentina, when the government nationalized YPF, an oil company partly owned by Spanish concerns. If governments will steal each other's property, who can rightly believe they won't go after their citizens' property? Therefore, Jeff...

http://financialsurvivalnetwork.com/ presents Ty Andros and I do the weekly wrap up today, Friday, April 20. Not much is happening in the world today other than Spain, Italy and the global financial system continuing their respective marches toward implosion and oblivion. As Lady Margaret Thatcher once said, "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." In the US and Europe, this happened long ago. Only now are we seeing the results of profligate uncontrolled government spending and the ceaseless expansion of the welfare state. If you've been following Ty and me, you know there's nothing...

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents Joanne "Jo" Nova has made a career of fighting a never ending war against propaganda, media manipulation, and ignorance. Jo is the ultimate climate change skeptic, and she's even written a book about it. From Australia, where she resides, her message resonates around the world; stand up, think for yourself, and stop letting the government think for you. This message, along with many others, is in her book Septic's Handbook, which has hit 200,000 copies. Jo is trying to get people to understand there's a lot more to widely held popular beliefs; thus, we all need to question...

http://financialsurvivalnetwork.com/ presents Chris Duane, BrotherJohnF, and Sean of SGTReport joined me again today, Thursday, 4/19, for another round table. We talked about the global financial crisis and what's coming next. We also covered current metal prices, and the reasons why they're stuck in the mud. Finally, we discussed what life will be like once the final collapse happens. These are very important issues that everyone needs to consider. Time is running out on the existing financial paradigm. Everyone needs to understand what this means to you, and how it will affect your lives. Listen to the Interview Here

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents Chris Duane joins us for our weekly discussion of the meltdown of the western Economic system. Chris also discusses the weird Blythe Masters interview on CNBC a couple weeks ago. Chris and I agree it seemed totally scripted and was only put out for some very underhanded reasons. Something big is cooking, and obviously JP Morgan is under a lot of pressure and used Blythe’s interview in an attempt to put some good publicity out there. We have all seen how the Da Boyz can successfully manipulate the market for a few days, but consider that JP Morgan...

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents Dana L. Meador is a CPA with over 27 years of experience in accounting, taxation, and business management. For the past 20 years, she has been a consultant to the insular world of ultra-high net worth individuals and their partnerships, trusts, and corporations (which have ranged from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries such as equity investment, real estate, restaurant, retail, banking, oil and gas, and online services). Dana believes that for the first time since the Great Depression, our country is in real financial peril. People want to follow a nobler path; they...

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents Bob Chapman joined FSN again for our biweekly check-in. He believes things are going so badly in Europe, and they are getting worse by the moment. This means the elites must do everything in their power to keep the price of gold and silver in the cellar, no matter what it takes. But, it can only go on for so long until the market rights itself, and the manipulators get swept away. The good news is we're getting closer to that point, it's just a matter of time! While it's certainly a good idea to have some cold...

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents James Jaeger is a noted filmaker and documentarian. We interviewed him several months back about his latest work Spoiler, which examined whether Dr. Ron Paul could wind up being elected president. Many people have questioned Dr. Paul's viability as a bona fide candidate, and the main stream media has all but written him off. However, Ron Paul has plugged on and has been experiencing a larger and larger following. Perhaps the ultimate question is whether the perception of economic well-being, which is totally unfounded in reality, will evaporate before the parties' candidates are chosen. From the looks of...

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents Charles Hugh Smith is a published author who also has the blog OfTwoMindz. He has studied economic cycles and his prognosis for the country is not positive. But, he has developed a number of steps that you can take to avoid much of the brunt of the coming economic calamity. HisUnconventional Guide to Investing in Troubled Times is a must for those struggling to make it through these trying times. You need to be hopeful and optimistic in your own personal affairs regardless how bad things appear to be. Charles has new insights into starting a business and...

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents Ed Caccia is a loyal listener to the show. He's also a fellow New Yorker, and a very savvy investor. By studying history and understanding the life cycle of unbacked monetary systems, he came to the inescapable conclusion the only lasting wealth comes from the ground. While there are certainly other ways to earn a living or a return, resource based investing has proven time and again, that food, gold, silver, and energy are always worth considering as investments. Ed and I also talked about the dumbing down of schools and their failure to teach American History. "Those...

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents "Ranting" Andy Hoffman joins us for our Monday get together, fresh with news that YPF, a large Argentine Oil Company, partly owned by Spanish Oil Company Respol, was nationalized by the Argentine Government. Sounds like a trade war to us. But this underscores the point that no paper wealth is safe from the clutches of government. It doesn't matter what country's government we are talking about. Eventually, when there's an existential threat to its continued survival, no man's life, liberty, or property is safe. We're truly talking man versus state. And whether there's a socialist slant to the...

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents Bob Hoye has seen it all, and what he hasn’t seen, he’s studied. With a degree in geophysics and a lot of summers spent working in mining, Bob’s got some very interesting views on history and financial history especially. In the past, his capitulation model has been extremely accurate. He is a proud member of the rational fringe, which uses research instead of feelings to understand interest rate manipulations and their economic impact. Bob believes as did Mark Twain, while history may not repeat itself, it certainly rhymes. And nothing rhymes more than financial cycles of boom and...

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents Rick Ackerman is a technical analyst par excellent. His hidden pivot system has been right so many times that FSN reviews his work regularly to assess upcoming trends. Right now, he’s seeing another uptrend in the dollar and more bad news for Europe. The ECB blew through $1 trillion in a very short time and at this rate what can they do next? The bond markets are being “stage-managed” by the Fed and the ECB to try to create the appearance of normalcy. But these markets are far from normal! There’s a lot of dark storm clouds on...

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents Mickey Fulp joined us again this week to discuss the latest updates on oil and natural gas. We also discuss the Luddites attempts to ban fracking. Listen to the Interview Here

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents Trevor Bradley from Georgetown Marketing discussed how to internationalize your assets before it's too late. Many people are unaware that it is currently completely legal to invest funds overseas. Whether you're opening a bank account, investing in a business, or buying real estate, you are free to invest as you desire. However, you must do it properly and report it to the irs/government. Failure to properly disclose your overseas assets and investments can result in extremely Draconian fines and penalties. With the rapid deterioration of the US economic system, how much longer will Uncle Sam allow this? Trevor...