🥫 You Were Right

December 30, 2025

Wall Street Isn’t Warning You, But This Chart Might

Vanguard just projected public markets may return only 5% annually over the next decade. In a 2024 report, Goldman Sachs forecasted the S&P 500 may return just 3% annually for the same time frame—stats that put current valuations in the 7th percentile of history.

Translation? The gains we’ve seen over the past few years might not continue for quite a while.

Meanwhile, another asset class—almost entirely uncorrelated to the S&P 500 historically—has overall outpaced it for decades (1995-2024), according to Masterworks data.

Masterworks lets everyday investors invest in shares of multimillion-dollar artworks by legends like Banksy, Basquiat, and Picasso.

And they’re not just buying. They’re exiting—with net annualized returns like 17.6%, 17.8%, and 21.5% among their 23 sales.*

Wall Street won’t talk about this. But the wealthy already are. Shares in new offerings can sell quickly but…

*Past performance is not indicative of future returns. Important Reg A disclosures: masterworks.com/cd.

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Three Minute Prepper - You Were Right

I need to tell you something before this year ends.

You were right all along.

Every time someone told you that you were overreacting, that you were paranoid, that things would get better, that the system would hold, you were right and they were wrong. The year we just witnessed proved it beyond any doubt.

We tracked it all together. We watched the US national debt blast past 38 trillion while global debt hit 337 trillion. We saw silver climb from 30 dollars to over 70 dollars in twelve months because people finally understood what you have known for years: fiat currency dies, hard assets survive. We documented special operations forces deploying to Caribbean islands while tankers got seized and blockades got declared. We followed China airing war simulations on state television while sanctioning entire defense industries. We counted 107 people executed without trial in 30 boat strikes. We watched the Pentagon fail its 8th audit in a row then get handed 901 billion more dollars it cannot account for.

More than half of all nations on Earth were either fighting wars or funding them in 2025. Scientists created bird flu with 100 percent death rate in mammals. Researchers hacked military satellite communications with 800 dollars in equipment. Three major fault zones in the United States all started sending warning tremors simultaneously. One in six seniors got prescribed at least 8 different pharmaceutical drugs while adverse reactions became the third leading cause of death. An American died by suicide every 11 minutes. Half the population now expects nuclear war within a decade.

And through it all, only 24 percent of Americans said they were satisfied with how things were going.

The convergence is not coming. It arrived.

What you did in 2025 matters more than you know. Every ounce of silver you stacked. Every can of food you stored. Every gallon of water you secured. Every skill you learned. Every relationship you built with like minded people who understand what is happening. Those were not just preparations. Those were investments in survival itself.

But 2025 was the warmup. What we tracked this year, what we documented in every issue, those were not isolated events. Those were signals of synchronized system failure across every domain. Financial, geopolitical, environmental, medical, technological, social. When every system fails simultaneously, the term for that is collapse.

I am not going to sugarcoat what 2026 will bring. The wars will expand. The currencies will weaken further. The natural disasters will intensify. The surveillance will tighten. The conflicts will spread. The debts will explode. The systems will break. The chaos will accelerate.

And you will be ready for it.

Because you did not wait for permission to prepare. You did not wait for the news to tell you it was okay to be concerned. You did not wait for your neighbors to validate your instincts. You saw the patterns. You read the signals. You took action.

That is the difference between those who survive what is coming and those who do not. You chose to see reality instead of pretending everything was fine. You chose preparation over panic. You chose self reliance over dependence on systems designed to fail.

Going into 2026, double down on everything you have been doing. Stack more silver while you still can. Store more food before supply chains break further. Secure more water before infrastructure fails. Build stronger relationships with people who think like you do. Learn more skills that matter when systems collapse. Get right with your faith because what is coming will test everyone.

The preppers were dismissed as paranoid for decades. Then 2025 happened. And suddenly every warning you gave, every concern you raised, every preparation you made looked not paranoid but prescient.

2026 will prove you right again. But this time, the stakes are higher. This time, the convergence is here. This time, there is no more runway left for those who waited.

You were born for such a time as this. Not to watch the collapse from the sidelines, but to survive it, to help others survive it, and to rebuild after it.

Thank you for reading every issue this year. Thank you for sharing these newsletters with others. Thank you for being part of a community that refuses to accept comfortable lies when uncomfortable truths are what we need.

I will be here with you in 2026, tracking every signal, connecting every pattern, and helping all of us understand what comes next.

Stay prepared. Stay vigilant. Stay strong.

The year ahead will demand everything you have been building toward.

You are ready.

Alex Simm

Head Editor, WeLovePrepping

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