Welcome to Radical Personal Finance. I have been working over the last week to record a podcast

on, among other things, bank failures, SVB, credit suites, inflation, Fed, etc. And

although I've hit record multiple times and recorded probably at this point around four hours

of audio, I've deleted all of it because I just feel like I'm saying the same thing over and over

again. So here's your short and sweet podcast. Number one, I have shared with you in the archives

of Radical Personal Finance everything I know of to protect yourself and to be prepared to win

when times are going well and to be prepared to be protected when times are going poorly.

As far as I can tell, the principles that I have espoused, primarily maintaining an income by

being a leader in your field, focusing on being at the top of your career because those who

maintain an income through any financial crisis are always just fine. Mix that with good sound

prudent financial planning in your personal affairs, keeping your expenses far lower than your

income, avoiding debt that's not tied to productive assets, maintaining a significant cash percentage

to protect yourself, having well thought out, diversified investments, kind of along a barbell

strategy where you're positioned to win from big picture alternative investments, but most of your

investments are well positioned in the boring conservative stuff, making sure that if times go

crazy, you're well protected with good physical preparedness, making sure you've got an escape plan,

www.internationalscapeplan.com, the ability to go to wherever in the world the best income

opportunities are or the best investment opportunities are having multiple citizenship, multiple

residencies, banking in multiple countries, making sure that you're well squared away if you ever

had to leave your country. As far as I can tell, I don't have anything new to say on the subject.

Combine that with the general fact that I expect primarily from the arguments from the great

George Friedman book called The Storm Before The Calm. I expect the 2020s and possibly the 2030s

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