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"To protect myself against impending hyperinflation, I'm buying a macroeconomics textbook so I can learn that it's not going to happen." The original post says "inflationary depression," not hyperinflation. How would a macroeconomics textbook teach one anything that has any predictive ability? A lot of people read macroeconomics
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Anyone take out a long term fixed interest mortgage?
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Or you could write about how economic socialism necessitates totalitarianism, and draw from the experiences of several countries. George Reisman has a good talk on this as a starting point. The big areas of interest these days seem to be development economics and globalization. There are a lot of topics out there. Like someone said, you could counter
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I just keep up with American politics lately. Canada is boring and unimportant, even to Canadians. Whatever happens in the US is sure to cross the border anyway. At least Canada's Conservative Party is a little easier to swallow than the Republican Party, though. You might look up Paul McKeever of the Freedom Party. He's more of a lawyer than
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"Buying expensive, exclusive and difficult to reproduce items, which will either slowly rise in value or skyrocket assuming a supply cutoff." I suppose you don't want to name those items? Personally I'm buying precious metals and precious metal mining company shares. I'm also learning Korean and living in Korea part time. Mostly
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"Learning hunter-gatherer/survivialist skills. I'm trying to escape civ and live by myself gathering my food supply w/o anyone else." Isn't the cure here worse than the disease?
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" Learning Italian as a first language would be extremely beneficial, as some commonplace words in Italian are more complex words in English. For example, the English "amorous" and the Italian "amoroso." The Italian word is literally translated as the English "loving". To learn to speak everyday Italian, you must know
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If you think there will be an inflationary depression in the near future, what have you been doing on a personal level to prepare for it? What are you doing on the family/neighbourhood/community levels?
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mikachusetts Life is a process.
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Clayton, Rand doesn't say that man necessarily acts in the pursuit of his own life. If you've read any of her books, you'll see many of the characters ultimately work for the destruction of their own lives. What she says is that life qua man requires consistent action for the promotion of his life, because life is a process of self-sustaining