In our last episode we recommended that you start a Victory Garden. Subsequentlly food prices in general have begun to skyrocket with some food staples unavailable at any price...On February 5, 2008 the us intelligence advised the senate that the US was a failed state...Importantly they spoke in a deniable manner, but the message was undeniable and the future us military plans omenous. They spoke of Russia and China as being a major threat, a major threat because they were breathing...Which takes us to postage stamps and death. In the 20's the Weimar German Rebublic created hyper-inflation to remove it's war reparation debt. Doing so destroyed all paper money and investments paid with paper money. Life insurance policies were never collected simply because the postage stamp to send notice of the death to the insurance company cost more than the policy was worth. Hyper-inflation or a premptive nuclear attack on Russia and China appear to be the choices...