More Prep

Since I've integrated prep into my daily routines, I usually manage to do something prep related every day. I certainly work my supply spreadsheets pretty hard if nothing else. This week, I added 3 more ounces of silver to my hoard (American Eagles), bought a .22 rifle (a Savage Mark II GL, which is like a scaled down version of my .308), added ammo, and got some old expired food off the books. I'll go food shopping in the next day or so to increase my supply of staples. Hopefully this weekend I'll get some shooting in.

I'm also just about through reading F.A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom; I'll hopefully get a review of it done. The key insight of it, in my mind, is that Hayek explains why markets work better than command economies -- it is a simple matter of information. Markets have much more information in them than do command economies because a market records the decisions of millions of participants. In a command economy, the only piece of information that matters is whatever insane thought has passed through Kim Jong Il's head this morning. It's a really good point, and is extremely relevant when considering government policy. When the government decides, it is doing so as a very imperfect actor.