In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers. The photo above was taken in 2022, during another fuel price spike.
Economics & Investing Links of Interest
- Gas surges past $4 a gallon while tomato and beef prices notch new records. A look at rising costs amid the Iran war.
- Video (sorry, this one is partly AI-generated): What a Dollar Bought You in 1955. JWR’s Comments: The video illustrates that we have been robbed by inflation and currency debasement. By the way, we compensate for inflation by accepting pre-1965 U.S. 90% silver coinage in payment at Elk Creek Company. Recently, our silver divisor for FRN prices has been bouncing around 53-to-1. That means that an antique Mauser sporter priced at $375 costs you just $7.00 face value in silver coinage. You can trade one tangible investment for another. Welcome back to the early 1960s! (For some comparison pricing, see the Hunter’s Lodge ad on pages 38 and 39 of the October, 1962 issue of Guns magazine.)
- Fertilizer time bomb threatens to drive up Europe’s food prices.
- Reader Brad F. wrote: “I have been searching for a long time to find a place to invest that has Space X stock. I found that Baron Capital has been an investor of Space X for years and holds stock in some of its funds, Baron Partners fund holds approximately $3.3 billion of Space X stock. So, when it goes public it made sense to me that a profit will be realized. So I opened an account with Baron Capital and purchased shares in the “Baron Partners Fund BPTIX–that holds $3.3 Billion of Space X stock. Since it took me many hours to find this, I wanted to pass it along, of course everyone should do their own discovery and make a decision on what works for them.”
- Silver Faces Another Deficit in 2026.
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