The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-5-13

Today, Dr. Tom Morter joins Kevin as co-host of the day! Find out how Trace Minerals are absolutely imperative to your health and why you should never leave home without it! Plus, discover how YOU can learn the secrets behind winning big at the racetrack and casino!

Self Help:
Learn The Secrets
Vote For Kevin Trudeau!
Miracle Minerals

Health:
New Toxic Chemical Created To Stop Bitterness In Food
Lipitor Linked To Diabetes & Liver Damage
U.S. Dietary Guidelines: Toss Calorie Counter
Acid Reflux Medications Can Cause Severe Nutritional Deficiency
Diet Soda Linked To Heart Risk

Take Trudeau on the Go! Click here to download this show to your iPod, mp3 player, or PC through iTunes!

 

Click below to watch the Kevin Trudeau Show!

The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-17-12

Today, Kevin explains how if your thinking is right and you’re not a fanatic, you will live a long healthy life.

Self Help:
Grass Fed Meat & Poultry
KT’s Daily Supplement Program
Change Your DNA Vibration

Health:
How Safe Are the Drugs in Your Medicine Cabinet?
Diet Sabotage: Nearly 1 In 5 Calorie Counts Wrong
Night Owls At Risk For Weight Gain
Butter & Cheese ‘Doesn’t Increase Risk of Heart Attacks’
Can Coffee Prevent Cancer?
Fluoride Consumption Leads to Brain Damage

Wealth:
Wells Fargo Fined $85 Million for Pushing Subprime Loans

Everything Kevin:
Become An Insider!
Stand with KT!
Kevin is on YouTube!
Sign Up For Kevin’s FREE Podcast
Follow Kevin on Twitter
Become A Fan of Kevin on Facebook

Take Trudeau on the Go! Click here to download this show to your iPod, mp3 player, or PC through iTunes!

Click below to watch the Kevin Trudeau Show!

The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-22-12

Today, Kevin explains how if your thinking is right and you’re not a fanatic, you will live a long healthy life.

Self Help:
Grass Fed Meat & Poultry
KT’s Daily Supplement Program
Change Your DNA Vibration

Health:
How Safe Are the Drugs in Your Medicine Cabinet?
Diet Sabotage: Nearly 1 In 5 Calorie Counts Wrong
Night Owls At Risk For Weight Gain
Butter & Cheese ‘Doesn’t Increase Risk of Heart Attacks’
Can Coffee Prevent Cancer?
Fluoride Consumption Leads to Brain Damage

Wealth:
Wells Fargo Fined $85 Million for Pushing Subprime Loans

Everything Kevin:
Become An Insider!
Stand with KT!
Kevin is on YouTube!
Sign Up For Kevin’s FREE Podcast
Follow Kevin on Twitter
Become A Fan of Kevin on Facebook
Kevin’s Film Club
Kevin’s Book Club

Take Trudeau on the Go! Click here to download this show to your iPod, mp3 player, or PC through iTunes!

Click below to watch the Kevin Trudeau Show!

Working To Death

April 17, 2012

Activist Post

By George Ure and Gaye Levy

Time to take on one of the ugliest questions an American worker can ask: “Do I have to work until death?”

Sadly, for an increasing number of Americans, the idea of retirement at age 62 to a life rich with adventures and the once-held American dream of “Golden Years” has turned into cardboard, or worse.

We’ve identified a large number of factors which are in play and a discussion of each helps to put “Working to Death” into perspective.

Mass consumption Home Improvement Loans and HELOCs.
The soaring divorce rates of recent years.
Inter-government “investment” of Social Security.
Long-term inflation by the Federal Reserve.
Soaring healthcare costs.
Serial market declines.
Pension fund bankruptcies and shortages.

Let’s address these in turn, starting with home improvement loans and HELOCs – the once darlings of the financial “services” industry standing for Home Equity Lines of Credit.

At their peak, during the go-go years of the 1990s and into beginning of the end of the housing bubble in 2007, the number of people “borrowing home equity” for current expenses, such as education, a new SUV, or to meet unexpected cash flow demands, skyrocketed.

A Huge Problem with the Payback

The problem was that most people never really paid the money back, so when the housing collapse began in earnest in 2008 (and arguably by the Case Shiller/S&P Housing Index report, it continues even now with housing prices stuck at 2003 levels) hundreds of thousands faced bankruptcy.

If you thought the housing collapse was done, wake up and think again. The US Attorney Legal Services web site reports an estimated 4-million delinquent mortgages are heading into foreclosure this year.

Another factor not often addressed is the impact of a raging national divorce rate in the period. Depending on which source you want to consider, the divorce rate in the US jumped by between 25 and 50% between the 1950s and 1970s through 1980s levels.

Thanks to court-sanctioned divorce settlements, many times a woman (especially in the 1980s) would have to refinance a family home in order to “cash out” the soon-to-be ex’s equity position.

This means some increased pressure in home lending at the time, but in the follow-on period which we’re in now, plenty of single women from their late 50s to low 70s find that because of financial emergencies, low wages, and the pressures of parenting, they just haven’t been able to get the home paid off.

With Social Security not keeping up with real inflation, this means thousands of aging women will have to stay in the workforce, or face the specter of losing their homes and having to move into either a very small condo, or worse: lose a lifetime of working for a paid-off home entirely by going into the rental market.

Click here for the report.

To Everyone Feeling Screwed Over by the Economy

March 8, 2012

The Permaculture Research Institute

By Kyle Chamberlain

“Let’s face it – work sucks.  Especially when your boss is a moron and the people you work with have no brain cells left.  Read this article to understand how employment is just another way for the global elite to use the masses.  The key is to find a job you dig and/or to start your own business so you don’t have to be working for the man.  Remember, the man wants to keep you down. They do not want you to succeed because they want the money and the power.” –KTRN

To everyone feeling screwed over by the economy,

We are told that our problem is that there aren’t enough jobs. This message is everywhere. The media gauges our plight with regularly updated unemployment statistics. Politicians debate theatrically over who can create more work. People everywhere clamor for scarce positions at factories and corporations.

I’d like to point out the great irony of this situation — people hate their jobs. How many people do you know who love their job? The truth is, most of us who have ordinary jobs can barely tolerate them. All else being equal, we’d rather not do them.

Work ethic is something this society takes pride in. But, if we are honest, we will confess that we call ourselves ‘hard working’ primarily to rationalize the daily abuses, deprivations, and indignities of the workplace. Work ethic is the only ethic most of us satisfy at our jobs. I think we can agree that most of our jobs aren’t making the world a better place.

So here we are, bickering and begging to fill roles we hate.

Click here for the full report.

Working Long Hours Doubles Depression Odds

January 26, 2012

By Matt McMillen

Health.com

Working long hours appears to substantially increase a person’s risk of becoming depressed, regardless of how stressful the actual work is, a new study suggests.
The study, which followed 2,123 British civil servants for six years, found that workers who put in an average of at least 11 hours per day at the office had roughly two and a half times higher odds of developing depression than their colleagues who clocked out after seven or eight hours.
The link between long workdays and depression persisted even after the researchers took into account factors such as job strain, the level of support in the workplace, alcohol use, smoking, and chronic physical diseases.
Although the findings are “consistent with previous studies, the degree of increased risk was surprising,” says Bryan Bruno, M.D., chair of the psychiatry department at Lenox Hill Hospital, in New York City, who was not involved in the research. “The biggest condition that I work with is depression, and it is often related to work stressors.”

Read the Full Story

Why I Do “Less” (Eat, Exercise and Work) for Better Results

December 13, 2011

The “If” Life

By Mike O’Donnell

“This is a very interesting article.  You don’t have to be perfect and drive yourself crazy to be healthy.  You can actually do less and get more results.  Just read this.”  –KTRN

My general lifestyle theme for the last decade (and on this blog) has been one of practicing more simplicity in all aspects of my life.

Not because I’m trying to neglect myself of anything (that’s not that point of a simple lifestyle), but rather quite the opposite. It is because of what a more simple life can bring in return as far as happiness, sense of freedom, reduced stress and even more results.

Trust me, I still want to accomplish and do many things…but I’ve found that by simplifying the steps to get there, those results can happen quicker. I’m much more focused and efficient at what I do.

Sounds like something worth trying right? So here’s some of my reasons I continue with simple eating, exercise and working. Hopefully it will inspire you to try something new and simple in your lifestyle approach as well!

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Why I Eat “Less”

By eating “less” I’m not really talking about calorie restriction or “starving” myself, but I mean in the amount (frequency) of meals.

I like to eat when I do…no one will ever say I don’t eat (if they watch me put stuff down).

However I’m not focused on eating all day, and that has lead me to many benefits that I wouldn’t have believed if you told me 10+ years ago (as I was into the whole 6x/day mini meal philosophy…which I’m thankfully not anymore).

Click here for the full report.

When Will You Find Your Next Job?

October 7th, 2011

AOL Jobs

By: Bill Humbert

The skilled labor force in the United States has set our nation apart with its skills, productivity and ingenuity. However, our skilled labor force is currently under siege; and being ravished by a punishing economy. The question for many of those workers is “When will I find my next job?”

With approximately 20 million workers out of work (both those on unemployment and those no longer counted), people are very scared and some are pretty frustrated by their lack of work. What savings they once had is now long gone. They are fighting to keep houses that they purchased during better economic times; and many are receiving some sort of welfare for the first time in their lives.

Then they read about more and continuing lay-offs. It is easy to understand their desperation.

The fact is that there are places that need their skills, possibly in their own communities. The way to find those positions is to meet and talk with people in their community every day. Don’t wait until the position is posted on a job board. When the job is posted on a website, the competition increases by a hundredfold.

How do you find those jobs before everyone else? Go to your library and chat with the reference librarian about potential reference sources of local companies, especially those that may need your skills. If you are in manufacturing for instance, look at the Manufacturers Register for your state. This directory lists every manufacturing entity in your state. They may not have an open position listed anywhere (the best kind of company!!), but if you chat with them about your skills they may create one for you. I have seen that happen many times – and it even worked for me in construction in the early 1970′s.

Share leads that don’t interest you with other people. This is grass roots networking – and if you become known as a person who shares openings, someone will share one with you. Remember the saying “What goes around, comes around!” It is true.

As a nation of workers, we cannot control what the President or Congress does (other than vote at election time). During this time, we need to use our ingenuity to help ourselves. If we help each other one by one find a new job; it will benefit every other unemployed worker find a job. After a period of time, we will create a wave of new jobs just by starting one by one.

You can be successful and you will be successful because that is who we are.

Click here for the full report from AOL Jobs

Want To Fix The Economy? Try Bankruptcy

September 13, 2011

Market Watch

By: Brett Arends

You want to fix this economic crisis? You want to put people back to work? You want to light a fire under the economy?

There’s a way to do it. Fast. And relatively simple.

But you’re not going to like it. You’re not going to like it at all.

Default. A national Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The fastest way to fix this mess is to see tens of millions of homeowners default on their mortgages and other debts, and millions more file for bankruptcy.

Fears of recession, tough trading conditions, an ocean of unresolved litigation and the worsening euro-zone mess have delivered a real pounding to bank stocks this summer. Former Goldman Sachs partner Roy Smith joins Mean Street to offer a solution: Break up the banks.

I told you that you wouldn’t like it.

I don’t like it much either. It sticks in the craw that people got to borrow all that money and won’t have to pay it back.

But you know what? The time to stop that was five or 10 years ago, when the money was being lent.

It’s gone.

And mass Chapter 11 is, by far, the least obnoxious solution to our problems.

That’s because the real cause of our economic slump isn’t too much government or too little government. It isn’t red tape, high taxes, low taxes, the growing divide between the rich and the poor, too much government debt, too little government debt, corporations, poor people, “greed,” “socialism,” China, Greece, or the legalization of gay marriage. It isn’t, in short, any of the things all the various nitwits say it is.

It’s the debt, stupid.

We’re hocked up to the eyeballs, and then some. We’re at the bottom of a lake of debt, lashed to an anchor. American households today owe $13.3 trillion. That has quadrupled in a generation. It has doubled just in the last 11 years. We owe more than any other nation, ever. And for all the yakking about how people are “repairing their balance sheets,” they’re not. From the peak, four years ago, they’ve cut their debts by a grand total of 4%.

And a lot of that was in write-offs.

More than a quarter of American mortgages are underwater. Many are deeply underwater. In states like Nevada and Florida the figures are astronomical.

The key thing to understand is that most of that money has gone to what a fund manager friend of mine calls “money heaven.” Most of these debts will never, ever be repaid in real money. Not gonna happen.

Think how corporations handle this kind of situation.

It happens all the time. Banks and bondholders find they have lent, say, $1 billion to a company whose assets and earning capacity will only repay, say, $300 million. What happens? Does the company soldier on with $1 billion in debt it can never repay? Do the stockholders send back their dividend checks? Do they sell their homes to pay off the bonds?

Not a chance. The company goes through Chapter 11. The creditors ‘fess up to their blunder, they face up to their losses, and they fix it. They write down the loans and take the equity instead. The balance sheet is cleaned up, and the company starts again.

Why not homeowners?

Most of the objections to this idea are well-meant, but misinformed.

A fund manager I asked raised the issue of “moral hazard.” Why should anyone pay their mortgage if some people were getting a pass, he asked?

Click here for the full report at Market Watch

Worker Paid For 12 Years Without Ever Showing Up!

September 2nd, 2011

WAVY.com

By: Mary Kay Mallonee

WAVY.com has learned the Norfolk agency that has been paying an employee for 12 years even though she never showed up for work, was also giving her regular raises. Also city officials say the woman did cash the paychecks and spend the money.

The employee of the Norfolk Community Services Board , which is funded by taxpayers, was paid $25,000 to $40,000 a year, according to city officials. That means she has raked in $300,000 to $480,000, not including full benefits, over the last 12 years.

“It’s a mystery to us,” said Mayor Paul Fraim. “I’m horrified. We are all very distressed about this. How could something like this have gone on for so long? There needs to be some accountablilty. We need to get to the bottom of it.”

The Norfolk Community Services Board provides mental health and substance abuse help for low-income residents of Norfolk. The City Attorney’s office is investigating the situation and will soon turn the case over to Norfolk Police and the Commonwealth’s Attorney to decide whether or not the employee, or any other employees or supervisors at the agency, will be charged with a crime. “I mean, I don’t know how this could be an oversight,” said Fraim. “Someobody was intentionally getting paid for doing nothing.”

The relatively new executive director of the agency, Maureen Womack, refused to talk on camera or answer any questions, but she provided a written statement saying, “The City Attorney’s Office, with the approval of Womack, took appropriate steps to prevent any further payments to the employee and the employee was terminated.”

City Attorney Bernard Pishko told WAVY.com that he has spoken with the female employee and she “offered virtually no explanation” for why or how she has been receiving and cashing paychecks for more than a decade without performing any work. Pishko did say it is possible the employee will be required to repay some or all of the money.

WAVY.com contacted Dr. Lewis Taylor, PhD, Chairman and former Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the Community Services Board, and he refused to comment. Fraim said, “I met with the [City] Manager last week and she advised me that news of this was going to break.”

The City of Norfolk set the agency up as an “operating board,” which means it is self-governing. City Council appointed the nine-member Board of Trustees, which in turn hires the executive director of the agency and they operate autonomously. The city provides about $8 million of the agency’s $24 million annual budget. “Beyond that we have no relationship with them, no authority over them,” said Fraim.

Click here for the full report from WAVY.com

Next Page »