February 28th is the birthday of famed Swiss investor and economic pundit Marc Faber (born 1946). — New at our family’s SurvivalRealty.com spin-off: Off-grid rammed earth home on 64 acres in NE Oregon. (near Fossil, in the John Day Basin) — Today we present a review written by our own Pat Cascio.
It is no easy task, to find products to write about. I know a lot of our readers, would like me to simply cover firearms, some knives, and other survival gear. While I really enjoy writing about new firearms, to be honest, there’s not a lot of actual “new” firearms to write about – the gun makers do their best to come out with a new firearm, that no one else has out there on the market. Many new firearms are just cosmetically slightly different than another similar gun. When it comes to knives, it is extremely difficult to find …
The following recipe is from blog reader L.S.. She notes that this recipe is best for winter, since these tend to get oily in the summer. Ingredients 2/3 cup peanut butter (I use part creamy and part chunky) 1 cup quick-cooking oats (uncooked) 1/4 cup pure maple syrup 2 Full Graham crackers (finely crushed) 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 cup of chocolate chips (optional) Directions Combine all ingredients in a medium-sized mixing bowl. Stir well with a spoon. Once mixture starts coming together, use your hands to work the mixture until it’s all combined (it helps to spray hands with …
Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. Most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor, JWR. Today, we look again at the silver-to-gold ratio. Precious Metals: Russia’s “soft” invasion of Ukraine of course boosted the prices of gold and silver. We have yet to see the inevitable sorting of those markets. The silver-to-gold ratio is back out-of-whack, at close to 79-to-1. I expect to see it revert closer to …
“The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence. All initiation of force is a violation of someone else’s rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it’s supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals. Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.” – Former Congressman Ron Paul
