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Lisa Gibson lost her brother in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland and made headlines when she met – and forgave – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, one of the world’s most notorious terrorist and man responsible for her brother’s death. She outlines the five stages people need to go through in order to forgive anyone and share the life changing stories of others who have applied these principles to their lives. She’s a terrorism expert who does conflict resolution training in war torn countries like Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq and Sudan.

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Danielle Park joined us for another session and we discussed the end of Quantitative Easing as we know it. And Danielle and I feel fine! Banks might actually have to go back to their traditional business, if they remember how-you remember, making sound loans to businesses looking to expand their operations. Imagine that. Consumers are paying off their loans and people are migrating from high cost states to low cost states to further reduce their expenditures.

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Catherine Austin Fitz has always been on the peripheral of power, both on Wall Street and in Washington, DC. She explains that since World War II, the Black Economy has siphoned off trillions of dollars from the American economy. Where it’s gone and where it’s been invested is a mystery. Catherine thinks it’s been invested in technology as well as companies overseas. Now she believes it’s poised to come back here. We’ll soon see if she’s right.

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Jason Greenslate was recently interviewed by FOX News. He’s an able-bodied surfer dude from beautiful La Jolla California. He’s been living off of friends, family and Uncle Sam for years. He’s the proud recipient and an EBT-electronic food stamps card… and he’s having the time of his life. He surfs every day and in between waves, he’s busy trying to pick up chicks. Sounds like loads of fun to me. He doesn’t have any desire to ever have a job or start a business, although he would like to become a rock star. And he has absolutely no guilt at living off the largesse or generosity of others. And why should he, he’s living for himself and only himself.

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W.L. Laney was 59 and on top world, and then disaster struck; he lost his job. He was facing foreclosure and had to resort to almost jobto pay the bills. Then he hit upon the novel business idea of sharpening barber scissors. That marked a turning point in his life. Today, WL’s business is extremely successful and he shows other people how to make money the same way he did. When things are bad, look to your friends, your family, your church, your God and most importantly yourself.

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Just when you thought it was safe to light up your E-Cig along comes Nanny Bloomberg’s buzzkill team to try and control this benign form of nicotine ingestion. He couldn’t control large sugary soda, so he’s going after electronic cigarettes. No doubt this bill will suffer a similar fate. When will these busy bodies ever learn? Next we talk about Jamie Oliver’s successful war on McDonald’s pink slime burgers. Much as we can’t stand him, he was right. Then some other fun fuel for the fire and we’re off to another fun day of broadcasting.

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Rantiing Andy Hoffman is back from China with much to tell. The country appears quite prosperous. While it’s still a developing nation, the people are very aware of fiat currency, gold and the dollar. They are wary of accepting too many hundred dollar bills and are very reluctant to accept any credit cards. Their work ethic is impeccable and they are clearly on the ascendant, as opposed to the United States and Europe. More bad news continues to pile on for the miners, but gold and silver appear to be rallying, but still trading below the cost of production.

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Gerry Shaltz says that in the new economy, selling is the best way to make your way and your living. His book, The DNA of Selling, is a guide book for getting you where you need to be. It’s not easy, but if you do the heavy lifting and the hard work you’ll get there. It’s guaranteed. It’s worked for thousands of people and it can work for you.

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Lawyer advertising is probably one of the most destructive forces to ever hit the legal system. The prostituting of the profession has had many awful effects upon society. However, the Internet has helped alleviate many of those negative forces. The educational tools available to the public has helped them understand legal issues that impact their lives in ways that could never have been imagined twenty years ago. From drafting forms to attorney evaluation and selection, many positive changes are being realized at this time. Ben Glass helps us understand them.

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Banks stopped lending in 2008, but John Rubino thinks they just might be getting ready to start up once again. Anything is possible, who knows, maybe they’ll start giving out toasters again too! What’s missing from banking today is an officer who actually cared about the community and felt that it was his duty to help invest and build the future. Perhaps that’s far too romantic a notion for today’s Too Big To Fail Banker, but you and I know that things were much better back then when your neighbor actually had an interest in your success.

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20 Cities In Danger of going broke. Governments everywhere going deeper and deeper into debt, even in Texas! What’s an American to do?

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Arch Crawford is back after a break. Stock markets seem to be topping and distribution days are becoming more frequent. This usually precedes a correction. How steep the correction will be is anyone’s guess, but it could be substantial. There’s great uncertainty in the markets and that’s certain to continue but the main beneficiary is bound to be gold and silver.

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Martin Armstrong came on with this shocker – Dow 32,000 by 2015! The reasons are quite simple. The rest of the world is crumbling, even China. As a result, the money is flowing to the US. Where’s it going? Treasuries and the Stock Market. Sound counter-intuitive? Maybe so, but Martin makes a very persuasive case. Gold will be a beneficiary too, but in 2015. Listen carefully to this interview. And watch out for your government, they’ve got the knives out for you and your wealth. Private pensions won’t be private for long.

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Senator Adlai Stevenson III oversaw US intelligence gathering while he was a member of the senate several decades ago. He was concerned then about the potential for wrongdoing and it’s clear that his concern was justified. He’s embarrassed by what the country has devolved into. Our diplomats used to be proud to show the American flag and live among the people of the countries in which they served. Now they hide in secured compounds. The future is indeed sad but one day perhaps a new America will be born.

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James Gandolfini’s untimely death revealed a highly unconventional will and some very peculiar estate planning. Blended families pose some particular challenges to estate family planning professionals. Emily Bouchard has a masters degree in social work so she’s uniquely qualified to handle the psychological issues that may arise. It’s important to address the emotional baggage to insure that your property gets distributed to your heirs the you want it to be, not the way the state decides it legally should be.

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Bill Holter is holding down the fort for the vacationing Ranting Andy Hoffman. In the latest round of interest rate hike shocks, the Fed lost over $200 billion just on their Treasury holdings. This doesn’t even take into consideration all the MBS and other garbage on their books that they paid top dollar for and theoretically has no value. Considering they only had a net worth of $65 billion, does this make them insolvent? Or does it matter when you can print up all the fiat currency units to your little heart’s desires? According to Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, a trillion here, a quadrillion there and pretty soon you’re talking about Swiss cheese.

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Bix Weir came on again today and we discussed the never ending series of incredible events sweeping the globe. Seems HSBC stopped doing business with a number of embassies including the Vatican, without explanation. At the same time the US has closed down a number of its embassies in the Middle East. It’s all just one big coincidence, we’re quite sure; what else could it be? Gold and silver prices continued to get slammed down while precious metals inventories continue to decrease, another coincidence. Listen and find out more.

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When it comes to what’s really happening in the real estate market, few people know as much as Dave Kranzler. He studies every aspect of it. And what he’s seeing is none too encouraging. While the high end market doesn’t look so bad, the recent rise in interest rates, the shadow inventory and hedge fund behavior is cause for real concern. Mortgage applications are down, sales are down and interest rates are rising. Dave sees hedge funds and other large owners dumping rentals and sales onto the market now. This should lead to lower rents and lower sale prices. This is not what healthy markets are made of.

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John Manfreda came on to talk about Wall Street, the next Fed Chief and easy money. We also talked about gold and the real economy, which is always an FSN favorite. You never know what’s going to happen in real life, but we can always hazard a guess. John’s thinking that energy is on a roll and that natural gas will start going up soon.

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Today we had the opportunity to speak with Lisabeth Gutiérrez of ‘Right Brain Life’. Tapping is an unlikely way to improve your health and treat health issues that don’t respond to other forms of treatment. I was extremely skeptical until several weeks ago. Someone tapped me on several acupressure points and the result was an incredible night’s sleep, even on an extended airplane trip. Lisabeth explains her experiences and how it can work for you. This is not a scam or any sort of quackery.

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We finally caught up with Rick Ackerman. Turns out he was just a short hop down the road from us. He sees a potential profitable short in stocks with not much downside risk and large potential upside. He thinks a break in stocks is inevitable at some point. They’ve been going up for five years already. Gold isn’t showing much upside potential at the present time, but we’re just a black swan away from a major advance. We’ll know more about that probably sooner than later.

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John Jamieson is as concerned about retirement account confiscation as we are. He thinks it would lead to a near revolution. However the government can do things short of confiscation that could achieve a similar result, so you need to be prepared. With that in mind, Jon has a number of ways to invest in annuities, which we don’t necessarily believe you should put all or a substantial part of your money into, but may be good as a diversification technique. We’re not telling you to give up your gold and silver by any stretch. However, Jon’s annuities do seem attractive and certainly warrant some additional investigation.

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Emeka Iwenofu is an accountant and he became engrossed with free enterprise and engaged in a number of solo business ventures before finding his true calling, writing.

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Mickey Fulp stopped by for the monthly market review. The stock market resumed its upward trajectory. Funny how stocks keep going up when unlimited currency units get released by the Fed and other central banks. Metals staged a bit of a recovery but Mickey’s concerned at as we’re seeing lower lows and lower highs. The gold to silver ratio also hit new highs, so keep watching silver. Also Uranium saw another major collapse compliments of the US government. And WTI got a boost as natural gas kept sinking lower.

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Diana Zoppa and I caught up again. A few more money saving tips, some philosophical discussions and just a general sense that the need to cut back and become even more conservative in your every day expenditures is becoming more urgent by the day.

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Gregg Fettig joined us for another installment on why neither political party can ever be trusted. It’s quite obvious after listening to him that the current crop of politicians have absolutely no regard for you and your concerns, which is why FSN long ago gave up following them.

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As bad as you thought things in Detroit are, they’re even worse. The former head of the Detroit Department of Transportation runs through a litany of the dysfunction taking place during his brief eight month tenure and it’s really quite shocking. From the inability to pay vital vendors, to employees ripping off the system to fraudulent personal injury lawsuits, the DDOT’s speciatly is getting taken for a ride.

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We finally caught up with Jim Rogers to discuss his new book Street Smarts. In it he discusses not only the shift of wealth from West to East, but also the complete restructuring of society. Higher education will be totally revamped. Ivy league schools will be revised and will be a shadow of their former selves. Same thing with Wall Street. That’s why younger people need toquickly re-evaluate their options and seek training in the right specialties, such as mining, petroleum and other scientific and agricultural specialties.

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A Financial Survival Network first, we got Joe Deaux of the TheStreet.com for an interview. It’s always difficult to interview interviewers, take my word for it… I’ve been in that position a number of times before. Joe and I discussed the illusion of stability that is sweeping the financial markets at this point. Joe believes that the economy is improving, albeit at a dismal rate. We also discussed the next Fed pick, and how I believe everything’s coming up Janet Yellen. We will soon find out. We then talked about about how ill prepared the government is for the next possible crisis.

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Bill Holter is filling in for Ranting Andy Hoffman who’s away on a much deserved vacation. His verdict on the next Fed chief, it doesn’t matter. The financial collapse is baked in the cake. Pretty soon the Fed will run out of Triple AAA collateral and that’s the beginning of the end. Whatever happens and however it happens, it won’t be pretty, that’s for sure.

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