This weekend we’ll look at a few western states to consider how “friendly” they are for retirement and homesteading for the small farmer/homesteader.

One of the things you’ll quickly find is that some states could give Mafioso loan sharks a run for their money when it comes to ripping off seniors.  Or, is it just sound public policy?  We’ll leave that to you to decide.

After some headlines and our Trading Model, and coffee, of course.

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Perhaps the hardest task of any serious-minded investor is staying ahead of social trends in America.  To do this, one needs to be able to estimate the direction and velocity of different social mood. 

For example, investing in a gay nightclub in the 1950’s likely wouldn’t have worked out too well.  Whereas investing in one in the mid 1990’s might have made you a fortune.  So time is what?  Everything!

Understanding how algorithm run our lives (via media inputs) is therefore critical.  So this morning we sit back and review from of my first-hand in the Top-40 radio wars of the 1970’s and see if there aren’t some economic ideas to be screened from that.

First, however, a look ahead with our Trading Model to see where your retirement money could be heading and a few headlines, since foreplay is half the fun.  Okay, an eighth of it then…

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It’s actually a half cousin to another kind of thinking we refer to all the time around here:  Algorithmic thinking.

Used to be in the Personal Motivation groups that the buzz was all about “motivation.”

Now, however, we’re evolving out of PMA (positive mental attitude) and into CCT (coldly calculated thinking) as the way to get ahead.

Exactly what you’d expect to see as the feedlot fills up with too many humans.  So along with an update on where we are with Peak Oil and how the collapse of the American energy industry (now at hand) will be levered by the Saudis into even more of a dog leash on American foreign policy, you’ll find this way of “running your life” pretty interesting.

This morning, the upside of PEROEI and how to get somewhere despite the herd.

After headlines and headlines with coffee and bacon.

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We wrote a definitive article on grab and go bags for subscribers back in 2008.  Yet as times change, our outlook has changed as well.

This morning’s we’ll explore how our grab-and-go plans have evolved and discuss how to do a “grab-and-go chip” in style and what to have on it.

Along the way, we’ll talk about your personal grimoire (magician’s spell book) updated to include digital recovery content should you ever need it.

First, though, our usual skim of headlines, most of which is beyond our control, but out Trading Model is always worth looking at.  Coffee at the ready?  It’s a big gulp this morning…

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