Price Increases over last 7 years... New Cars: +23% Used Cars: +28% Groceries: +33% Shelter: +35% Family Health Insurance: +38% Restaurants: +39% Transportation: +41% Electricity: +43% Auto Insurance: +49% Gasoline: +51% Home Prices: +60% Gas Utilities: +60% Fuel Oil: +67% Ground Beef: +81% Dozen Eggs: +86% Coffee: +123%

Since the start of the Iran war... Sulfur: +67% Jet Fuel: +66% Urea: +51% Diesel: +50% Heating Oil: +40% WTI Crude Oil: +37% European Natural Gas: +34% Gasoline: +32% Fertilizer: +31% Brent Crude Oil: +31% Coal: +14% Palm Oil: +10% Iron Ore: +7% Rice: +4% S&P 500: +1% $VIX: -8%

Japan’s 30-year bond yield has spiked to 3.77% - the highest level on record. A preview of what’s coming for the US if we don’t get our deficit/debt spiral under control. The chickens eventually come home to roost.

Commodities: 1-year % change... Coffee: +91% Natural Gas: +39% Cocoa: +36% Gold: +36% Lumber: +13% Silver: +10% US CPI: +2.3% Corn: -3% Aluminum: -5% Sugar: -5% Copper: -6% Heating Oil: -11% Soybeans: -13% Cotton: -13% Gasoline: -15% Wheat: -20% WTI Crude: -22% Brent Crude: -22%

Commodities over the last year... Natural Gas: +126% Coffee: +103% Eggs: +97% Gold: +37% Silver: +36% Copper: +21% Aluminum: +20% Zinc: +16% Lumber: +13% Live Cattle: +7% Corn: +5% Wheat: +3% CPI Inflation: +2.8% Cocoa: -1% Lean Hogs: -3% Nickel: -11% Sugar: -12% Soybeans: -16% WTI Crude: -17% Brent Crude: -17% Heating Oil: -20% Gasoline: -20% Cotton: -30%

Commodities over the last year... Cocoa: +134% Coffee: +97% Natural Gas: +47% Gold: +40% Silver: +40% Aluminum: +16% Copper: +11% Live Cattle: +11% Corn: +11% Lean Hogs: +8% Zinc: +6% CPI Inflation: +2.9% Lumber: -1% WTI Crude: -5% Wheat: -5% Brent Crude: -7% Nickel: -8% Gasoline: -9% Soybeans: -13% Heating Oil: -14% Sugar: -17% Cotton: -21% youtube.com/channel/UCRoWRnX…

Commodity price changes over last year... Cocoa: +151% Coffee: +82% Silver: +42% Gold: +36% Zinc: +30% Natural Gas: +30% Aluminum: +22% Copper: +13% Lumber: +5% US CPI: +2.7% Gasoline: -4% WTI Crude: -4% Brent Crude: -5% Sugar: -6% Corn: -7% Wheat: -8% Cotton: -15% Heating Oil: -16% Soybeans: -26% youtube.com/channel/UCRoWRnX…

Price Increases over last 4 years... CPI Medical Care: +9.0% CPI Apparel: +12.3% CPI Used Cars: +14.0% CPI New Cars: +19.7% CPI Food at home: +22.3% CPI Shelter: +23.9% CPI Food away from home: +25.0% CPI Electricity: +30.4% CPI Gas Utilities: +32.2% CPI Transportation: +42.6% CPI Gasoline: +44.8% US Home Prices: +45.1% CPI Fuel Oil: +53.0% CPI Auto Insurance: +63.0% youtube.com/channel/UCRoWRnX…

What would $5k invested each year grow to by the age of 65 (assuming 8% annual return)? Beginning at... -Age 25: $1.30 million -Age 30: $862k -Age 35: $566k -Age 40: $366k -Age 45: $229k -Age 50: $136k Start saving/investing as early as possible. Video: youtube.com/watch?v=kci9xi_-…

Commodity price changes over last year... Cocoa: +122% Coffee: +65% Gold: +33% Silver: +26% Zinc: +23% Aluminum: +17% Copper: +12% US CPI: +2.9% Lumber: -4% WTI Crude: -9% Brent Crude: -9% Wheat: -11% Natural Gas: -16% Cotton: -17% Gasoline: -18% Corn: -18% Sugar: -25% Heating Oil: -26% Soybeans: -28%

Gains from the August 5 panic lows... Nvidia $NVDA: +37% Nikkei 225 $NIKK: +22% Bitcoin $BTC: +20% Tesla $TSLA: +19% Meta $META: +17% Amazon $AMZN: +17% Apple $AAPL: +15% Netflix $NFLX: +15% Nasdaq 100 $QQQ: +12% S&P 500 $SPY: +9% Microsoft $MSFT: +9% Google $GOOGL: +5% Video: youtube.com/watch?v=NeD5dRG_…