The Death Of Money: The Prepper's Survival Guide To The Loss Of Paper Wealth And How To Survive An Economic Collapse

It isn’t hard to see that the economies in almost every country are in bad shape. There are constantly reports of this big bank falling or that big business going bankrupt. In fact, in the United States, entire cities are either in bankruptcy or on the verge. What happens when a city goes bankrupt? Millions of dollars that are owed to various creditors would never be paid back. Those creditors would take a major hit and could be forced to go under as well. The chain reaction would be devastating and could ultimately result in the complete devastation of paper currency.  Are you prepared to live in a world where paper money holds no value? You wouldn’t have a job and if you did, you would be paid with credits or with gold or silver pieces. It is unfathomable to think of a world where we can’t run to the store and use our debit cards to buy groceries or pay cash for medical services. If and when paper money becomes worthless, citizens all around the world are going to have to adopt a new way of living.  In order to survive, people are going to have to rely on themselves. There will be no government bailouts. There will be no government aid. You will have to learn how to hunt, grow a garden and raise livestock in order to feed your family. You can help offset the upheaval by stocking up on some things today that will make that bleak tomorrow look a little better. This book will explain what you need to start buying today as well as teach you the new form of tender—bartering. You will also learn about the history of paper money and how history tells us it always fails at some point. Will you be ready?

Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at Americas Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

John Farrar (1896–1974), a quick-to-anger “High Episcopalian editor,” and Roger Straus (1917–2004), a wealthy, charismatic “Jewish prep-school jock,” joined forces in 1946 to launch a New York publishing house. In 1955, Straus hired the immensely talented editor Robert Giroux (1914–2008), a working-class “Jersey City Jesuit.” Journalist Kachka tells Farrar and Giroux’s intriguing stories with zest, but Straus is the sun around which this scintillating history revolves. Possessed of “lordly benevolence and canny calculation,” Straus ran a cosmopolitan, intellectual, if shabby kingdom where sex was the currency of the realm, a CIA connection opened doors to overseas writers, parties served as publicity campaigns, and the prestigious literary house of Farrar, Straus & Giroux published a record-making 25 Nobel laureates. Writing with vigor, skill, and expertise and drawing on dozens of in-depth interviews, Kachka shares risqué gossip and striking insider revelations and vividly profiles the house’s world-shaping writers, including Flannery O’Connor, Tom Wolfe, and Susan Sontag. Kachka’s engrossing portrait of an exceptional publishing house sheds new light on the volatile mixture of commerce, art, and passion that makes the world of books go round. --Donna Seaman

The 49ers II -The Rest of the Story

Some problems you encounter may seem insurmountableat first sight; but persevere. It is definitely well worth the effort. Inreturn, win or lose, you will be rewarded with the peace of mind that you triedyour best, you protected those weaker than you and those you hold dear. You didthe right thing. And then you will be able to die smiling before they put youin the fast hearse.