12 Ways To Prepare For The Next Great Depression

rmowery

4-14-2008 12:43 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b2e0af96-3f87-4f22-a9a9-338babf139b5/4F293639-2681-4B77-9B1B-C16B7C4C5983/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://io9.com/378581/12-ways-to-prepare-for-the-next-great-depression" href="http://io9.com/378581/12-ways-to-prepare-for-the-next-great-depression" style="font-size: 11px;">io9.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/378581/12-ways-to-prepare-for-the-next-great-depression"><P><IMG width="798" height="498" class="center" src="http://io9.com/assets/resources/2008/04/wifiline.jpg" />Our economic future could be <A href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23515757-643,00.html">even</A> bleaker than you expect — and last year was the moment to unleash your inner survivalist. If the financial system suffers any more crises of confidence, credit gets even tighter, and the fed falls into a liquidity trap, we could be in for several hardscrabbling dystopian years. Forget maintaining your current shiny standard of living — how will you feed and clothe yourself, in the worst case scenario? We've compiled a few suggestions for things you can do now to brace yourself.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/378581/12-ways-to-prepare-for-the-next-great-depression"><P><STRONG>Buy some cheap land</STRONG> in a rural area. Build a house, or just get a used RV. Either way, make sure you own your home free and clear, so you can live rent-free and mortgage-free for as long as you need to.
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Go off the grid.</STRONG> Get your own power generator — or, better yet, some of those <A href="http://io9.com/378537/power-your-home-with-helium-balloons">solar helium balloons</A>. Or some wind turbines. Don't be dependent on the power company to keep all your necessities running.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4F293639-2681-4B77-9B1B-C16B7C4C5983/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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