Day: September 5, 2025

Preparedness Notes for Friday — September 5, 2025

Today is the birthday of the late comedian Bob Newhart. He was born September 5, 1929, and passed away on July 18, 2024. His comedic timing was great. — On September 5, 1836, Sam Houston was elected President of the Republic of Texas. — And on this day in 1932, the French Upper Volta was broken up into Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger. — Today’s feature article is a short piece by our friend Hub Moolman, of South Africa. — We are in great need of entries for Round 120 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. Take note that …


Tracking The Silver Bull Market, by Hubert Moolman

The recent silver breakout means that silver is likely on an almost clear path to this target area (previously presented):       (Click the thumbnail above, to expand.) The current bottoming pattern from around 2014 to now is very similar to the early-2000s’ bottoming pattern. I have highlighted two similar patterns (marked 1 to 5). The bottoming period of the early 2000s started when silver broke down at the black support line (bottom of the channel) in late 2000 and made a low at point 5. This is similar to the period since the breakdown at the blue support …


Economics & Investing For Preppers

Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. In this column, JWR also covers hedges, derivatives, and various obscura. This column emphasizes JWR’s “tangibles heavy” investing strategy and contrarian perspective. Today, we look at another new all-time high for gold, in U.S. Dollar terms.  (See the Precious Metals section.) Also, take note of my warning on the stock market, in the Economy & Finance section. – JWR Precious Metals: Reported in the WSJ on Monday: Gold Futures Rise to Record High on Fed Concerns, Rate-Cut Expectations  …


The Editors’ Quote of the Day:

“We wargame and make plans for the end of the world, right? We have maps, escape routes, stashes of gear, emergency communication protocols, etc. But, as I’ve said over and over, you’ll have a bunch of small personal EOTWAWKI events that are resolved with $50 bills long before you have the EOTWAWKI event that is resolved with .50 BMG. So, it would stand to reason that if you’re going to be so prepared that you have contingency plans for the apocalypse, perhaps it might be a good idea to have plans for those personal apocalypses as well. I learned the …