Naish Piazza of Front Sight has regretfully announced that because of increased merchandise costs as well as increased shipping and mailing costs he will soon be raising the price on his very generous “Get a Gun” training and gear package offer [1]. Get your order in right away, to beat the price increase! Also, keep in mind that the offer will likely end soon, since it is being run at or near cost.
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Inyokern sent this article link about survivalists the UK’s Guardian newspaper: Natural born survivors [2]. BTW, it mentions SurvivalBlog and cites the size our our weekly readership.
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Several readers have written to ask me about the impact of the Federal Reserve’s recent incremental cut in interest rates. In my opinion, this latest 0.25% cut (the seventh cut within as many months) will not make much of a difference. At this point, the economy is so out of whack, debt levels (public and private) are so high, and the credit market is so badly broken, that a deep, long recession–if not a depression–seems inevitable. America’s situation is not unlike that of Japan in the early 1990s. There, a stock market bubble grew out of the Tokyo real estate bubble. First real estate collapsed, and then stocks. The Bank of Japan tried reducing interest rates all the way to zero, to no avail. Now, fifteen years later, their economy has still not fully recovered. Be prepared for decades of economic turmoil, folks!
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Blake W. mentioned this unusual concept: Establishing gated communities peopled entirely with Ron Paul supporters [3].