Showing posts with label recession. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recession. Show all posts

Thursday, September 29, 2011

How to survive the Coming Depression?





When the economy is shaken, it instills a lot of fear in people's everyday lives. What yesterday seemed safe, now seems shaky and unstable. If you followed the news recently, I'm sure you've heard many stories about how big the national debt has been received. It is rapidly heading towards $ 14 trillion dollars. Gas prices are rising again, food prices are soaring, and there are millions of people still looking for work. When it comes to surviving the recession, people automatically think of money, food and shelter. Even if all these are very important, there are other things you need, if you really want to deal with future crisis.

For many years we have been warned against a coming economic crash in America, and since 2006 we have been advised specifically of the housing crisis, recession and depression that followed. The key to surviving the coming economic depression is just preparation. I’ll try to explain "how-to-survive-the-coming-Depression” in a moment, but first I must paint a picture of something of what is to come. My conviction is that especially in America, this crisis will be worse than the Great Depression.

While this sounds scary, there is some good news. You see, if you know what to do, you can weather this storm and can come out better on the other side. Here are some things you can do to prepare for the coming economic depression.

The first thing you should immediately do is take all your money out of cash investments, such as savings accounts, certificates of deposit, money market funds and pension plans in stocks and bonds them.
Secondly, you can do is, to prepare paying off the debt as much you can. Having cash-in-hand during an economic depression is important. In order to find ways to reduce and save more. If you are investing heavily in the stock market, take the time to look closely at your investments.
The third thing you need are flashlights. This is a great chance that you will not have the power during these times and make sure you have plenty of batteries.

There are certain investments that won’t be affected by depression. Mutual funds, retirement accounts and stock options are good investments. The problem is that a severe economic downturn, particularly depression, these types of investments were written down, and in times of terrible economy, you can almost be useless if there is high inflation. Another thing you can do is explore the world of barter. To barter means for the exchange of goods or services to another product or service. In difficult times, people still need to do things, just not necessarily have the money to pay. So you can offer your services or goods in exchange for something, what you need. It can be food, shelter, clothing, or anything else you need. This will definitely take us to the barter-trade era, but as they say – life takes a full cycle, and I guess we are going there and have crossed more than half the cycle already.

The last thing I suggest you do to survive the coming economic depression is to start your own business part time. I think we all know that no job is recession proof. If services are no longer needed, you will be shown the door out of the organization. Start anything you are good at. Spend some time on your business and put it online, market it locally, start selling online – whatever you can do, but take up something part-time. This way, if you lose your job, you will always have money coming in.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

The Greater Depression-its coming

The people who survived the Great Depression were the ones who had money to buy when everybody else was selling." -- My grandfather-----Very interesting post probably written by many grandfathers!
Nouriel Roubini (chairman of RGE Monitor and professor of economics at New York University's Stern School of Business. He's also a former adviser to the U.S. Treasury Department.) believes that this will be a "very painful and severe recession" that could last for 18 months or more, but it will be more like 1981 than 1929. Families may be eating soup again, but at least it'll be in their own kitchens.
Depressions aren't advertised in advance. Last time around we went from the Roaring '20s to bread lines in a matter of just a few years. Anyone who says that can't happen again either doesn't know history, doesn't understand how interconnected the world's economies have become, or is lying to you. While that doesn't mean you should panic, it does mean you should prepare -- something my grandfather would've done a long time ago.
by Glen Beck 2008...more

"We are in a historic housing bust comparable to that of the Great Depression. Prior to the Depression housing prices only rose 19% (between 1921 to 1925) and then fell 30% The cycle we are going through now, is a unique cycle; it will go down as the subprime cycle. The excitement in housing was unprecedented and the unraveling of that (bubble) will have unpredictable consequences....Real estate owned by households is roughly $20 trillion and we've already seen an 8% decline which means a loss of $2 trillion.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

"Depression Deepening"

Very Interesting article:

We definitely live in interesting times, huh?

I believe future historians will allocate Monday, September 29, 2008 as the start of the second Great Depression. That is not to say we may yet see exciting corrections and even occasionally a stronger US dollar. Still, the ultimate trend is down, down, down.

Start of the Depression