Theres more homeless now and they make videos on YouTube

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 I see more and more people posting videos now of there homelessness and its sad to see. It seems to go with the rise in inflation. 

Whats more interesting is the people posting videos of there volunteering homelessness. Theres an older gentleman who works online in the mornings from what he says for two different companies and earns enough to support himself and bike all over California and orher states. 

He even travels overseas for his lifestyle and seems to be getting ready to travel again to South America  

Its interesting to see his lifestyle, living in a tent wild camping, sometimes staying in campsites and hotels.

Its a locost lifestyle and more people seem to be adopting it. He even has a few sheds to store stuff and camp out in. I understand he will soon buy some land and put up a few sheds to have his own place.

Theres another gentleman who used to have a YouTube channel but stopped it. He did similiar, hed hike on private land and public land and live in it and grow his own food and hide supplies on his friends land.

I talk about this because as the cost of living goes up more and more people are coming up with more lifestyle choices to get by and work a lot less 

People are living off grid, in their cars, living overseas and starting there own online and offline businesses to beat working for corporations and not to mention the high cost of healthcare in the US. 

It seems like most western nations are going through high inflation and tax and regulation so more and more people are moving to where they are treated best. Where the regulation is less or not enforced, taxes are less and rent is low.

In my case a few years ago I was in Cambodia and saw apartments for 50usd a month. I ultimately chose one for 250,00 which is still cheap, with AC and close to everything. 

I prefer life in the Philippines and have rented for 80,00 to 120,00 usd a month and electric 50,00 or less, quite a bit less usually 20,00 water was five bucks a month in both Philippines and Cambodia. Healthcare is better in Philippines if your in or near Manila, even better when you can fly to Malaysia or Thailand. The hospital s in Cambodia are either Thai or Japanese and of course the local ones.

Anyways the point of this article is theres always an option or choice in how to live no matter your income or budget and with the internet and social media more people are learning this.

Good luck out their 

Why I like Alaska.

 

Would I go back to Alaska?

I have thought about that a lot over the months. I grew up in Seattle and Baltimore but have spent a lot of time in Minnesota and Iowa so I haven't thought about Alaska much.

Having worked their, Seward, Alaska, I now have a better idea about the place. Its on the coast so not to hot or to cold. Theres not much to do accept work and enjoy the outdoors, hiking, biking or surfing. 

Now that im older I like being in nature and enjoyed my time working in a fish processing plant. It included room and board, which was taken out of my check so you can save a lot unless you drink at the bar.

There are many hotels, bars, brewery and other places where they provide room and board so if your single and want to save money and meet people from around the world its nice.

For me its not a bad way to live. Some of my co workers left for Asia at the end of the contract and just return when the season starts.

The work may be better than what you do in the lower 48 but its not for anyone.

I still remember the men I worked with from Hawaii, California, Seattle ect. And the ladies too, all nice.

Its definitely a different experience from Minnesota or Iowa, it reminded me a lot of growing up in Seattle.

If you want more of an adventure and meet different people from all walks of life its worth going.

I worked in a fish processing plant in Seward, Alaska.

 

Last year I worked in Seward, Alaska in a fish processing plant, processing Halibut, Black Cod and other fish.

The company I worked for paid for my flight their and back. After my contract was finished they flew me back to where I came from, no issues.

The first day their was interesting. I arrived in Anchorage, Alaska and arrived one hour late and missed my shuttle to the bunk house. I was lucky and made arrangements to leave the airport three or four hours latter and arrived in Seward, at midnight or latter.

Their was no one to meet me or anyone to call. I was afraid of the shuttle leaving me their with no accommodation so banged on a door until someone let me me in. I was lucky they let me sleep on the couch and make arrangements the next day for somewhere else to sleep.

The actual work in the plant was not difficult or hard. Most days we worked less than eight hours a day which left me with low pay, and they take out deductions for room and board, whish left me with not much.

Luckily over the month things sped up and we got to work everyday twelve to sixteen hours a day, and little sleep and no days off, which in a two week pay period after tax deductions and room and board equaled a check of over 2,000.00 but in six months of working their I only received two checks like that, so wasn't able to save much.

One of the bad things that happened was I got hurt on the job and wasn't able to get all my medical bills paid through work mans comp. I got a few paid but the last bill was not and it was substantial.

Just for the record my bosses and office bosses were very nice and no issue their. I had a few problems with other workers but it was mostly cultural misunderstandings that I could not do much about.

One of the bosses even came downstairs into the plant to cut fish and work with us tell things were done, you don't see leadership like that much anymore.

The actual living conditions weren't as bad as people say but they weren't great either. If you cant live with other people who's culture can be different than yours you may not like it.

I forgot to mention I did this in my fifties so even at that age I could work the long hours.

If I were younger I might do it again but for now probably wont. As for Seward Alaska its really a beautiful place, not to mention you can buy weed anywhere if that's your thing. I don't smoke or drink so I had an easy time of it. On our time off I went hiking in the mountains and saw pretty big salmon in the rivers, I didn't see any black bears or Bigfoot but was always on the lookout for them.

Alaska is a beautiful place at least Seward was. I could live their despite it being a small town. Its pretty busy in the summer with all the tourists. Lots of tourists jobs with room and board at hotels, brewerys ect. 

If you can get a chance to do it I would. 

The war in Iran.

 

I have been thinking about Iran and the war their and what it means for North Americans. So far I haven't decided accept to say the price of goods will keep rising and keep going up for the next year or so.

generally speaking its difficult to get unbiased information on what's really happening their and what the ultimate war means.

Some say the U.S. is losing the empire and China and Russia are rising and maybe Turkey too. I dont know but it does seem the U.S. isn't winning like the U.S Government keeps saying.

I'm not sure what to think anymore accept to keep investing in commodities and gold and other assets that are trending. I also think it would be wise to have a plan B somewhere else, for me it might be the territory of the US, Saipan or someplace in Asia although South America maybe better. As I have relative's in Japan and Philippines I am partial to those places.

This is meant to be a small post to get me back to posting online.

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Happy tariff day/ bloodbath in world stock markets.

 Tariffs and plunging stock markets. 

The Donald Trump tariffs have caused a lot of pain and suffering in the stock markets the last few day. We have seen almost all sectors of stocks down 5% to 10% and individual stocks down 20% or more some down even 50%. The bloodbath in shares overseas has been pretty bad to although initially not as bad but now Friday 4/4/2025 is pretty bad everywhere.

The few sectors not getting creamed are consumer staples and some medical companies. If you have been shorting in size you arent doing to bad or if you were loaded up on bullion and bonds, they have done ok as has Tobacco shares and telephone shares at least in the States and Canada and the UK.

Is this the beginning of the end?  

I don't think so but who knows. So far oil is down 12% or more copper down and corn and the other commodities.

This maybe the beginning's of some kind of new economy and only time will tell but I suspect most Governments will incentivize corporations to bring their capital back home and this maybe the beginnings of a weak dollar and booming stock markets in other parts of the world. all we can do is wait and watch then execute and take advantages of the new opportunities as they become available.

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Is the gold price signal in the noice?

 

Last Friday markets sold off hard, many indicies down 2% to 4%,  and many shares down 10% in one trading day 

For the most part gold, utilities, bonds, have held up pretty well signalling a upcoming recession maybe in the cards for the US and a slowdown in the world economy.  

Japan indices sold off 4% or at least some of the ETFs I follow did.

Many emerging markets too.

Im not sure if this is the beginning of a big market sell off but if the Fed doesnt lower interest rates as much as markets participants anticipate and expect I expect more market turbulence and higher bind prices, most market participants dont seem to expect bond prices and Utes, or gold to keep going up despite there confusion on watching the prices edge up higher over time.

Time will tell what happens and I still believe large cap biotechnology, Utes, Gold,and Healthcare to continue racing higher over time and most small caps to sell off