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About gerold

I have a bit of financial experience having invested in stocks in the 1960s & 70s, commodities in the 80s & commercial real estate in the 90s (I sold in 2005.) I'm back in stocks. I am appalled at our rapidly deteriorating global condition so I've written articles for family, friends & colleagues since 2007; warning them and doing my best to explain what's happening, what we can expect in the future and what you can do to prepare and mitigate the worst of the economic, social, political and nuclear fallout. As a public service in 2010 I decided to create a blog accessible to a larger number of people because I believe that knowledge not shared is wasted.

The Cupcake Index

Posted on August 6, 2014 by gerold

Reading time: 579 words, 2 pages, 1 to 2 minutes. You may have heard about the ‘Skyscraper Index’, but I bet you haven’t heard about the ‘Cupcake Index’. That’s because I just invented it. The Skyscraper Index According to Wikipedia, … Continue reading →

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Fukushima & Typhoon Halong

Posted on August 6, 2014 by gerold

Reading time: 894 words, 3 pages, 2 to 3 minutes. Warning: keep an eye on Typhoon Halong heading to Japan. What we call hurricanes are called typhoons when a cyclone intensifies in the Pacific Ocean. Why should this matter to … Continue reading →

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BDI Collapse Heralds the Next Global Recession

Posted on August 4, 2014 by gerold

Reading time: 611 words, 2 pages 2 to 3 minutes The Baltic Dry Index that measures global shipping prices collapsed in July thus heralding the beginning of the next global economic recession. You can see this in the three scary … Continue reading →

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The Basis of Conspiracy Thinking

Posted on July 29, 2014 by gerold

Reading time: 3,663 words, 9 pages, 8 to 15 minutes Our human ability to recognize patterns is both a great strength as well as a debilitating weakness as seen in our tendency for ‘conspiracy thinking’. This article is another covering … Continue reading →

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U.S. Economy Collapsed & WW III Began

Posted on July 19, 2014 by gerold

Reading time: 2,885 words, 10 page 7 to 12 minutes. They didn’t ring a bell when the U.S. economy collapsed nor when World War III began. Future historians will probably point to June, 2014 as the month for these two … Continue reading →

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Our Insane Judeo-Christian Slave Morality

Posted on June 7, 2014 by gerold

Reading time: 5,690 words, 14 to 23 minutes. Have you ever wondered why western civilization is so insane and warped and twisted? I’ve long wondered why black is white and white is black, why good is bad and bad is … Continue reading →

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Hand Skin Cracking?

Posted on May 11, 2014 by gerold

Reading time: 400 words, 1 page, 1 to 2 minutes. Some years ago, the skin on my hands began to crack occasionally. Although a bit painful, my concern was infection because human skin, our body’s largest organ, is our first … Continue reading →

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Sell in May? Why I’m Bailing Out of Stocks

Posted on May 4, 2014 by gerold

Reading time: 2,777 words, 18 pages, 7 to 11 minutes. “Sell in May and go away” is an old pre-summer adage for stock market investors. It means selling your stock portfolio in May to avoid the historical decline or underperformance … Continue reading →

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Benghazi Cover-up Continues

Posted on April 27, 2014 by gerold

Reading time: 150 words, less than a minute, 3.5 min. video. The killing of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other U.S. personnel in Benghazi, Libya is another successful Obama cover-up. Mission Accomplished. The ass media are complicit with their silence. … Continue reading →

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Coffee Harvest Crash – Price Increase Alert

Posted on April 23, 2014 by gerold

Reading time: 307 words, 1 page, 1 minute. Continuing drought in Brazil has decimated coffee plants, reduced the production of Arabica beans by 18% and driven up the price of commodity futures by 8.3%, so far. The operative phrase is … Continue reading →

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