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9 things to hoard in the new year

Fear of economic collapse has meant high prices for things like gems and metals -- and rising gun sales. Can you profit from the trend?

By Jeff Reeves, InvestorPlace

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gfunktify
Dec 26, 2012 12:07PM
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Another nonsense article!!
Zyzyx
Dec 26, 2012 11:16AM
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WOW...This person writing the article obviously is a Motel 6 camper. Please do not think for a second this stuff will save your life.
Get books on survival and PRACTICE! Water - dead after three days...so that is the priority so you can lift your gold and silver around and helps digesting those fine metals??
Food wasn't even mentioned?? WTF?? Really.

PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE FOR ENTERTAINMENT ONLY - IT WILL KILL YOU IF YOU DONT. 
realityiscruel
Dec 26, 2012 11:06AM
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There is a sucker born every minute.
M Rald
Dec 26, 2012 10:46AM
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Looks like another day when a reporter had nothing better to write about.
ronnyanddontclaimtoknowitall
Dec 26, 2012 10:37AM
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what is being done to preserve and protect kim kardashian's ****. (need to protect Bruce also, he's suffered enough)

forget the sis's, mom, and kanye. 

TDW-Grimlock
Dec 26, 2012 10:19AM
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I think from what i've seen it comes down to do you know your enviroment and the world you live in can you grow crops? clean your gun? survive?
Shadow55555
Dec 26, 2012 10:13AM
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Just another "article" that proves the point, "MSN is ignorant, and unbelievably stupid".....
Gary In Arizona
Dec 26, 2012 10:09AM
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Well, folks . . . I get such a kick out of picturing you redneck/racist/gun-l​oonie types shooting it out with your neightbors over the last bowl of Raisin Bran!  Or maybe the last box of "Depends Diapers" for adults?  After all, Granpap may lose control of himself when the howling mob surrounds your "Fortress-House-Bunk​er!"   

 

In a previous generation,  you would have all been referred to as "John Bircher's",  but since none of you have a knowledge of history, that's meaningless to you.  Oh, well . . . 

 

Gary in Arizona 

studio steve
Dec 26, 2012 9:07AM
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Well, those things didn't help HITLER! Did They!
Babydoe
Dec 26, 2012 2:21AM
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Good lord people!  Remember fallout shelters back in the day?  The world was going to end then & people spent good money putting holes in the ground to live in.  I'll bet nobody even remembers where most of those are.  Who wants to live in a hole, wait months for food to grow, live in sheer terror of being robbed or attacked for your hoard.....when and IF doomsday occurs in our lifetime, I'm running toward whatever it is and getting it over with.  Sounds like there will be nothing but crazy people left when the dust settles anyway!
unemployed22
Dec 26, 2012 2:03AM
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i agree with the food and water. one other thing would be a bomb shelter or a place to store the items so someone can not come and steal all your stuff. The gold or silver not a fan of because if you have large food supply you could probably sell  a box of cereal for a pound of gold or silver heck get a house for 10 boxes.  depending how the food supply is out there. But remember if you have these food stores do not let anyone know you have them or else you will have a line of people with their kids camped outside your door. It would be like winning the lotto  you will have relatives with sob stories coming out of the wood work. And the other point get use to being cold hearted and remember it is you family you want to take care of and you do not know how long this is going to last.
Den I is
Dec 26, 2012 1:32AM
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Wow the media just keeps fueling the stupidity in the country. Keep repeating all the school shootings, keep promoting Armageddon mentality that will cause us all to build barriers between the houses, from which we can shoot our neighbors should they call on us to get our seed! You jackasses need to find something to write about instead of using Jerry Springer  tactics to get your garbage topics published. Really? I'm gonna fill up 30 gas cans and put them in the garage. STOP FUELING AMERICA'S ANXIETY. STOP GIVING THE CRAZY PEOPLE ALL THE AIR TIME THEY CAN STAND. 
N H
Dec 26, 2012 1:18AM
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better horde toliet paper........
exRN
Dec 26, 2012 1:17AM
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Mommyhen, I hope you don't advertise your stockpile to your "neighbors".. or that you have a good supply of ammo in order to keep it for your own family. Silly thing to do is advertise where it is and who has what. If we have a nuclear war, I don't want to even live through it. Nothing will be safe, not water, not food and certainly not us. 
Landlady72
Dec 25, 2012 11:59PM
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In 1930 or '31, during the great depression,  my mother was living in Arkansas, she hadn't eaten in three days, she tried to pawn a 1 ct diamond ring and a watch with diamonds around the face for enough money to send a telegram to my grandfather (her dad) for bus fare to California.  She couldn't pawn them for that little bit of money.

Soooo how does this yokel think gold, silver, jewels, art, is going to help him in a crash.  He is living in the clouds.  

 

THEvoterIStheProblem
Dec 25, 2012 11:57PM
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Seeds? ...you gonna wait for 3-6 months to harvest in the middle of a war zone? Gold/Gems/Art? good luck eating that crap when the world falls apart. Water, pleazzze, learn to filter/treat it from every source possible. Realestate? unless you can guard it and keep it your likely to have it taken from you by deadly force. Fuel, sure, how fast do you think you can run carrying 10 gallons of gas...or better yet drive mad max style with say 30 gallons swashing around the back of your SUV?

 

Those that survive will be those that have skill, knowledge, tough and fit and above all extremely mobile. All others it comes down to fate.

MirageGuy
Dec 25, 2012 11:30PM
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I'd recommend 90 days of food and water.  Warm clothes, boots, blankets, fuel...  Guns and ammo, Specie, more silver than gold.  Tools...  Camping gear comes in handy...

 

Final SHTF items can be accumutated in the weeks before real trouble.  But guns, Ammo, Specie and food require stockpiling for a month or so.  Empty water containers come in handy too.  Medical supplies also...

 

Not too much.  And if nothing happens, no biggie.  You are prepared if something does!  Just don't go overboard...   

Rick247
Dec 25, 2012 11:13PM
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NEED BUSHMASTER and ammo,the rest will come!
Dave10
Dec 25, 2012 10:59PM
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You can not buy immortality. When its your time its your time.
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