Day: March 28, 2025

Preparedness Notes for Friday — March 28, 2025

On March 28, 1566, the foundation stone was laid for the new city of La Valletta in Malta by Knights Hospitaller Grand Master Jean de Valette. — March 28, 1774: Britain passed the Coercive Act against Massachusetts. — Just three days left! We are continuing our big one-week sale at Elk Creek Company. We’ve put all of our pre-1899 Mauser and Carcano sporters as well as all of our Pietta percussion revolvers on sale. This sale will end on Monday, March 31st. Also, take note that I’ve boosted our pre-1965 silver divisor to 25.1 times face value, if you’d like …


A Disaster Laptop Computer – Part 3, by J.M.

(Continued from Part 2. This concludes the article.) Reference Material Another useful function that computers do really well is store, manage, and interact with information. No one can remember everything, and there are a lot of sources of free or low-cost eBooks, articles, documents, manuals, etc. on the Internet that can be extremely useful for a post-disaster world. I created a folder on the 1TB microSD card on my disaster laptop named ‘Reference Material’, and here are some of the things I’ve collected and stored there: SurvivalBlog Archive – ($33) An obvious choice for SurvivalBlog readers. [JWR Adds: It also …


Economics & Investing For Preppers

Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. In this column, JWR also covers hedges, derivatives, and various obscura. This column emphasizes JWR’s “tangibles heavy” investing strategy and contrarian perspective. Today, a closer look at the volatile precious metals markets. Pictured above is the Chicago Board of Trade, pre-2015. About 90% of the open outcry “pit” trading has since migrated to office computer screens. Precious Metals: On March 21st, I had a consulting client ask me about the spot silver market. He asked if I thought …