Where I get my investment ideas from

Back in October 2013 I got interested in the stock market because Twitter (TWTR) was going IPO (Initial Public Offering). Also, with interest rates on savings accounts near zero and central banks zero interest rate policy (ZIRP), only place to get any decent return on my cash is to invest in the stock market. Since then, I have bought shares in a number of companies but not Twitter. In that time I lost 60% of my investments or about $2,000. To me this is the cost of learning to identify undervalued assets.

What you will need to survive a complete economic, financial and political melt down

In my previous post, How to survive this economic crisis, I talked about surviving this economic crash from a wealth management point of view. This post is about surviving a the total economic, financial and political melt down as in the collapse of the entire banking system, people rising up against local, regional and national governments and the failure of infrastructure - power, water and non-solar powered communications.

How to survive this economic crisis

I first started investing in the stock market in November 2013. As part of my learning to invest, I started playing the "Portfolio" game on Royal Bank Direct investing (RBC DI) web site in February 2014. By July the first game had gone from $100,000 to $550 million. Since then that game has fallen to $388 million.