You’ve read Your Survival Guy's 10 Most Popular Survival Posts of 2019, and Your Survival Guy's 10 Most Popular Money Posts of 2019. Here are Your Survival Guy's 10 Most Popular Advanced Weapons Systems of 2019. Secretly Closing the Gap in the Air-to-Air Missile Race New Secret Weapon is Like Dropping Anvils on Terrorists Heads The IRS is Coming after Your IRA with this Hidden Tax The Rich and Famous: How to Invest Like Jay Leno Russia’s Next Generation Stealth Bomber May Never Take Flight CHAMP: The Microwave Bomb that can Win a Battle With No Casualties What Happens … [Read more...]

Thank you for reading Your Survival Guy in 2019. You made this year the site’s biggest yet. Here’s the list of the top 10 most popular survival posts of 2019 on Yoursurvivalguy.com: Your Survival Guy: Out of Gas in Newport Air Force Tells Americans They Aren’t Taking the EMP Threat Seriously Enough They’re Not Getting My Guns Tucker Explains: Poverty Doesn’t Cause Instability. Envy Does. Driving into Gun Hell without Your Survival Pistol of Choice Is America on the Brink of a Civil War? Paris Update: Notre-Dame, Protests and Your Survival Guy Tucker Explains: Two … [Read more...]

Here’s an excellent rundown by Justin Bariso at Inc., on how to run a meeting like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos: Bad meetings: We've all experienced them. Whether it's poor planning, too much talking, or lack of preparation, bad meetings waste precious time and money. But Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos may have cracked the code for making meetings more productive. By means of his annual letter to shareholders, as well as a recent interview, Bezos gave some insight into what the Amazon meeting culture looks like. It all comes down to following three simple rules. "Two pizza" … [Read more...]

You can feel the tension building up in my house as we head into Labor Day Weekend. Because for us, school hasn’t started, so the harsh, cold reality of the end of summer hasn’t hit us yet. But it will. Like a ton of bricks. At 6:00 am Thursday. That’s when my daughter begins her senior year of high school, and my son will be a sophomore. I’ve been singing “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” like the guy happily shopping for school supplies in the Staples commercial. They tell me to “just stop.” It’s hard knowing that at this time next year, my daughter will be off to … [Read more...]

Last week I told you about Babson College's 100th anniversary, and the reception for it Becky and I attended in Newport, RI. Babson's president, Stephen Spinelli, himself a great entrepreneur, spoke about the culture of entrepreneurialism Babson instills in its students. In Babson's Thought & Action online magazine, Jackie Villaci picks up that conversation of the entrepreneurial culture at the college and discusses it with some famous Babson alumni. She writes: The world’s most famous entrepreneurs didn’t just change the game in their respective industry, they disrupted the norm. While … [Read more...]

Last night Becky and I had the pleasure of attending Babson’s Summer Reception in Newport. Hosted by Mary and Thomas Gilbane, Jr., it was an opportunity for the entire Babson community in Rhode Island to get together and speak with Babson’s new President Stephen Spinelli MBA ‘92. Spinelli as President makes this year for Babson—it’s 100th--even more special. As you may know, Babson has played a special role in our family with Becky’s dad Richard Young ’63 (a former trustee), brother Matthew Young ’92, Becky ’94, and me ’94 all graduates of the college. Seeing and hearing Spinelli … [Read more...]

If you choose to do business with a firm, shouldn't you be treated well? Fidelity has chosen to automatically sweep customers' cash into higher-yielding accounts, rather than stick it in low yielding bank accounts like most of the company's competitors. Advantages like this are why I do business with Fidelity. Earlier this month Fidelity explained its decision to offer its customers accounts that earn up to 47 times those of its competitors', writing: Customers Opening Brokerage & Retirement Accounts Automatically Directed to Higher Yielding Cash Options, While Retaining Choice … [Read more...]

In the Orange County Register, veteran California journalist and political analyst Dan Walters, examines the hard choice facing city officials in Sacramento, and state officials in California. The problem both governments have is their pensions. Despite problems with its pensions, Sacramento officials are already thinking up ways to spend money they haven't received from future taxes on things like "infrastructure, affordable housing, cultural amenities and incentives to attract new business," while ignoring the massive hole in the city's retirement funding. Walters writes: As they pore … [Read more...]