Editor’s Note: The article below generated from corporate media reports delivers a strong pitch for physical precious metals. Whenever we post such articles, we get comments that we’re “fearmongering” about the economy for the sake of promoting gold sales. The opposite is actually true. As an outlet that avoided gold and silver altogether despite many lucrative offers, we have always believed in the vibrancy of the U.S. economy. That changed shortly after Joe Biden was inserted into office.
It is not for the sake of fearmongering that we took on a Christian precious metals sponsor. It was because we have legitimate concerns about the economy, both today and more importantly into the future, that we vetted out 31 companies and decided on partnering with Genesis Gold Group. With that said, here’s the article explaining the current state of affairs by Discern Reporter…
Investor demand for safe-haven assets amid market volatility and geopolitical instability in the Middle East has led to an increase in both gold and the U.S. dollar. The December Gold Futures are currently consolidating recent gains near the significant $2000 mark.
Concerns over escalating war fears, government dysfunction, and rising bond yields have caused the S&P 500 to lose key support at 4200 mid-week, setting the stage for a potentially turbulent Fed-week.
The rising bond yields have further fueled interest in gold as traders and investors grow worried about U.S. fiscal policy and the potential impact of increasing yields on the economy.
Investors are particularly concerned about the growing amount of U.S. debt, which now stands at over $33.6 trillion and continues to rise rapidly. The surge in bond yields has also resulted in a rise in mortgage rates, putting pressure on home buyers looking to remortgage.
While the Federal Reserve is likely to maintain its current inflation-fighting approach during its upcoming meeting, the cost of borrowing for home buyers has increased. This cautious approach from businesses and banks, coupled with higher borrowing costs and gasoline prices, has put restraints on economic growth.
Despite better-than-expected economic indicators such as home sales, advanced Q3 GDP reading, durable goods, and weekly jobless claims, there are concerns about the sustainability of consumer spending due to stagnant incomes. Businesses are also approaching the market cautiously due to higher borrowing costs, and banks are becoming more reluctant to lend.
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The current quarter’s performance is crucial, as there are already signs of a potential slowdown, including cautious corporate commentary and a decline in bank lending.
The Leading Economic Indicator (LEI) is also showing signs of concern, with its current decline and narrowing interest rate spreads suggesting that a recession may be approaching.
As the price of gold approaches an expected breakout to all-time highs above $2100, there has been increased interest from long-term investors and Western institutions in gold-backed exchange-traded products. The Gold/S&P ratio has also been rising, indicating that gold is outperforming the stock market, particularly amid intensifying Middle East conflicts.
Given the current state of the U.S. economy, including a growing national debt, a dysfunctional government, ongoing wars, and credit rating agencies scrutinizing major banks, Western investors may consider diversifying their investments by allocating some profits from the stock market to gold.
The expectation is that mining companies will outperform the stock market once the GOLD/S&P500 ratio establishes support at the 0.50 level and gold surpasses the $2100 mark. Junior mining companies are also expected to outperform both the stock market and larger mining companies.
In anticipation of these potential gains, the Junior Miner Junky (JMJ) newsletter has compiled a selection of quality junior mining companies with significant upside potential into 2025-26.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.