Today’s Preparedness Brief covers the developing U.S.–Iran escalation window, verified reports of increased U.S. force posture in the Middle East, ongoing diplomatic negotiations, and what to watch for in the next 72 hours. We break down infrastructure targeting trends in Ukraine, Indo-Pacific tension signals, U.S. protest indicators, and cyber/infrastructure resilience risks. Includes timestamped BTC, gold, and silver prices, plus clear preparedness action steps.

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In a surprising turn for one of the world’s largest retailers, Whole Foods Market is removing its palm-scan payment technology across all of its U.S. stores, ending an experiment that many critics have labeled dystopian. According to reporting from ZeroHedge, the biometric “pay-by-palm” system known as Amazon One will be fully phased out by June […]

In a sobering new financial analysis, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warns that Americans are woefully unprepared for retirement — with almost no one close to the roughly $2 million many experts now say is needed for a comfortable life after work. According to a recent Yahoo Finance report summarizing this concern, the average person estimates […]

U.S. economic growth cooled significantly in the fourth quarter of 2025, which the Trump administration attributed to last fall’s record-long federal government shutdown and softer consumer spending. Gross domestic product rose at a 1.4 percent seasonally adjusted, inflation-adjusted annual rate in the final three months of last year, the Commerce Department said Friday, well below the 2.5 percent pace expected by economists. The reading marked a steep slowdown from the third quarter’s 4.4 percent gain. Federal government spending fell at a 16.6 percent rate, subtracting nearly 1.2 percentage points from headline GDP. The department said the shutdown’s full impact “cannot be quantified,” though reduced services by federal workers cut about 1 percentage point from real growth. Even excluding government effects, momentum eased. Business and consumer spending—minus trade, inventories, and government—rose 2.4 percent, the weakest since early 2025. For the year of 2025, GDP increased 2.2 percent, the slowest pace since 2022, as households and businesses turned more cautious. The post U.S. GDP Growth Slowed for Q4 2025  appeared first on The American Conservative.