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  It’s Going to Be a Hard Summer: Prepare Now  By  Carolyn Nicolaysen  · May 31, 2022 Why will this be a long, rough summer? Reason number one, recession looming.  A few weeks ago, I published an article discussing the possibility of a recession and what that means for our financial stability. To prepare for a recession see:  Let’s Talk Recession . It’s time to review. Recessions generally come after a decline in confidence, a sense among businesses and consumers that times won’t be as good as they have been. Some leading indicators a recession has arrived are reduced hours worked, fewer new orders of capital and consumer goods, lower level of building permits, increased interest rates and for the last 50 years all recessions have been preceded by greatly increased fuel prices. According to surveys this month by news organizations and national and international organizations who monitor trends, consumer confidence is down worldwide. Much of this is due to t...

This is something to think about!   The Shortages are Just the Start: Here’s What You Can Do Right Now to Prepare By  Carolyn Nicolaysen  · February 1, 2022 In October of 2019, I published article about preparing for a pandemic. I heard it was fear mongering and that medicine had come too far for a pandemic to happen on the scale of the 1918 disaster. In March of last year, I began writing about runaway inflation. This warning came long before the media was discussing this topic. We understood the seriousness of the situation because as exporters we deal with the ports on a daily basis. Because we export food, we also recognized crop shortages long before they became common knowledge and the inability to economically import foods. The time has come to issue another warning. If you have been listening to the news you know the following: Russia is threatening to invade the Ukraine. They currently have 60 battlegroups on the Ukrainian border and 30 train carloads of troops p...