either you get used to the new 'normal' or you make plans to change it; 

 

 “EDITOR’S NOTE: During the last six months several independent analysts, transportation insiders, and agricultural workers contacted us with warnings that sounded exaggerated at first, almost paranoid, until we started comparing the numbers ourselves. Fuel instability, fertilizer shortages, livestock liquidation, abnormal weather patterns, shipping delays, and sudden increases in food storage activity are all accelerating at the same time. Publicly, officials continue insisting that inflation is slowing down and supply chains are stabilizing, but privately many people working inside these industries are preparing for something much worse. One distribution manager described the current situation as ‘the calm phase before the real shortages begin.’ Another warned that by the end of the decade millions of people could experience a standard of living collapse they still believe is impossible in the modern West.”

 Everybody spent the last two years talking about gasoline prices because gasoline is visible. People see the numbers every morning while driving to work, and every increase feels immediate. Drivers complain, politicians argue on television, economists invent temporary explanations, and social media fills with anger for a few days before the next crisis arrives. But while the public remained distracted by fuel prices, something far more dangerous quietly started forming underneath the surface of the global economy. The real story was never gasoline itself. The real story was what expensive energy was going to do to food, and judging by the direction things are moving now, that process has already started in ways that most people still fail to understand...............more.........