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"Imagine living in a home that costs you nothing to heat or cool. Imagine building this home yourself. Imagine growing your own vegetables year-round in this home. Imagine no utility bills. Imagine easily available, limitless natural [and salvaged] resources to build this home..." Expect to start hearing more survivalists ( like this one ) talk about earthships. These are just way too cool. I want one:

By: Wes Messamore In last week’s Money Monday feature , I shared my first experience buying gold and silver bullion coins for the purpose of protecting my savings from inflation and the risk of a major run on the global banking system, which many sound money advocates believe is imminent. I also promised to cover bullion coins in more detail for this week’s Money Monday feature. Here’s what I said about them last week: “Here was my strategy: I did a bunch of research the day before on all the world’s most well-known bullion coins, that is, coins minted after the year 1800 out of 90% or more of a precious metal, and are or were a legal tender in their country of origin. I prefer these to junk metal because they are in a form that people are comfortable viewing and using as money, and they are more-readily recognizable as trusted pieces of metal bullion with metal content in amounts that are already well-established and known. They have a reputation.” When buying b...

By: Wes Messamore There’s nothing tinfoil about the Agenda 21 conspiracy, and it’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s a conspiracy fact. This is happening. As a matter record. Out in the public. For all to see. They’re just brazenly, unabashedly going forward with their plan to control all human action on the entire planet. It’s not a conspiracy theory, because they’re not even trying to hide it. So what is Agenda 21? Initially, nothing I heard in news headlines and super long Facebook comments written in all capital letters intrigued me enough to look any further into Agenda 21. I shouldn’t have judge a book by its cover. Enough liberty lubbers talking about this should at least warrant clicking a couple links, doing a couple Google queries, finding what all this is about. But frankly, I’m just now starting to break my habit of tuning out anything that smacks of Alex Jones as background noise. I think I’ve misjudged Alex Jones and I think that even if I don’t agree with 5% of what he b...

By: Wes Messamore Earlier today, I linked to my article at The Silver Underground entitled, " My Experience Buying Gold and Silver Bullion Coins Last Week " and published this morning as this week's "Money Monday" feature. But thinking it over, I think I left the wrong excerpt for you. Instead of the first two paragraphs, I should have shared the last two paragraphs, which have the most thought provoking idea and the part of the experience that I found most interesting: I just found the coin shop by Googling for coin shops in my city online. They were super helpful and answered all the questions I had during our appointment. Storing the surplus value of your hard work in the form of inflation-proof metal rather than Bernanke’s funny money isn’t hard, intimidating, or cumbersome. At least it wasn’t in my experience. And I got more of a shopping “thrill” (I think I’ve heard it referred to as “retail therapy” in an episode of Gossip Girl) from saving m...

Suiting action to words last week, I finally made a trip to a local coin store in my city to start my run on the global fiat banking system by letting their bad money drive the good money (gold and silver) into my new hoard of inflation proof value. I’m hoping that when the fiat money system crashes, everything will be so cheap for people who have gold and silver to spend that I can take a year off and ride motorcycles across South America. Or something awesome like that. So on the big day, I rolled into this coin shop with a collection of numismatic coins (coins that have collector’s value because they are rare, or have interesting stories behind them) that I used to collect as a(n extremely nerdy) child. I wanted them to appraise the collector’s value of the coins, and then trade them in along with a stack of Federal Reserve notes for some gold and silver. I was happily surprised to learn what a couple of my coin sets were worth. I definitely got more for them than I hoped to expec...

At university Roberts was taught neo-classical economics, but he believes that Austrian economics provides the best lessons in how the economy really works. He is attracted to the idea that money can only last, when it's chosen by the people -- a sentiment that he hopes the Silver Circle promotes. He believes that competing currencies could be a good way to transition towards a better monetary system. This podcast was recorded on May16 2012 at the Hard Assets Investment Conference in New York: Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page