Executive Summary

• Why it’s far better to be a year early than a day late when preparing for crisis
• Why I’m issuing a rare Alert
• What’s causing me to release this Alert now
• My relocation criteria

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As I’m fond of saying: I might be wrong, but I’m not confused.

I’m perfectly willing to be early on timing, as long as I get the direction right.

For example, I invested heavily in gold and silver beginning in 2001.  My first purchases of gold were at $300/oz.  Silver at $4.53/oz.

I was early. Prices didn’t really start taking off until 2006.

The bulk of these purchases happened after the sale of my house in 2003 when I had ~$250,000 of gains I had to do something with.  I rolled all of it into bullion.

I was early on selling my house, too. The housing market didn’t roll over until 2007.

Was I early on calling a housing bubble?  Yep.  Was I correct?  Again, yes.  Looking back does it matter that I was early to both the housing correction and precious metals rallies? Not at all.

Here again I can state with equal conviction that we each need to be prepared for massive changes coming.  If that sounds vague it’s because they are going to impact virtually everything and every system we hold dear.

Political.  Ecological.  Financial.  Cultural.  Social.  Our lives.  People we know.  Our communities.  All of them.  Every. Single. One.

I was similarly early in focusing on Peak Oil. But that, too, is going to come roaring back into everyone’s consciousness before too many more years pass.

Massive debts, insufficient resources, rising pollution, collapsing food webs, and a near incomplete ability to have a proper national or global dialog about any of these things.  That’s what sets the trajectory.

But what about timing?  Timing matters, of course.  I’m comfortable being early to the story.  Admittedly, not everyone else is.

But we say often here at Peak Prosperity: When it comes to preparing for crisis, it’s far better to be a year early than a day late.