There are five things they will never tell you.

Five things every American must know. Five things that could either massively enrich you or completely destroy you depending on the moves you make today. 

If you’re honest with yourself, none of these things should surprise you… you already know about them. Deep down you can feel them. Even when you try to ignore them. 

And you already know these problems aren’t going away. They won’t magically fix themselves. Nobody is coming to your rescue. You need to take action into your own hands. 

Read the list below and tell me where I’m wrong… 

#1. The government is bankrupt.

It’s lying about inflation because every percentage point higher in CPI automatically raises Social Security’s liabilities. Those liabilities now exceed $100 trillion.

They can’t be financed. Not without destroying the dollar. 

Think Rome, when it could no longer afford free grain for its citizens. Think Europe after World War I, when nations tried to print their way out of impossible debts.

The real-world rate of inflation is not 3% or 4%. 

I’d bet it’s closer to 12%+ in America’s major cities and growing.

Every dollar you earn buys less each month… and that decline is accelerating.

#2. Your savings are being vaporized.

Virtually all your dollar-based assets — cash in the bank, 401(k), wages — will lose half their value in the next four years.

Grocery prices, housing, healthcare, insurance… you’ve seen what’s happened since 2009. Now imagine it all doubling again by 2029. That’s the future we’re heading toward if you stand still.

#3. AI will save the private sector but not you.

Artificial intelligence will help companies survive inflation. 

But it will do it by displacing millions of people.Private sector employment will shrink by double digits every year for at least the next decade. Law, accounting, finance, even medicine—white-collar work is being displaced at a speed no one is prepared for.

And those in government jobs or fixed pensions?

They’ll be wiped out entirely as deficits and inflation devour their real income.

#4. The violence hasn’t even begun.

Since 2009, we’ve seen the opening act—crime, riots, political rage.

But as the dollar collapses, a civil fracture is inevitable. Those closest to the flow of new money (what economists call the Cantillon Effect) will grow richer. Everyone else will struggle to survive.

It’s the same pattern that’s ended every empire in history.

#5. These “problems” represent an unprecedented transfer of wealth. 

For people who understand the economics behind this societal and financial collapse, this crisis represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to amass multi-generational wealth. 

I’m not describing a theory. I’m not describing an idea. Or a forecast. I’m not talking about something that might happen, some day. I’m talking about what’s happening right now. 

This has been happening since the bailouts began in 2009. 

I’ve been writing about these issues, virtually every day, since. 

When I first warned about these problems America still had a AAA credit rating. Occupy Wall Street hadn’t happened yet. Nor BLM. Or Covid lockdowns. Or our government forcing us to take vaccines. 

I gave anyone who was worried the complete blueprint to save themselves: gold, great businesses, Bitcoin… and avoid the dollar at all costs. 

But now, with the advent of a new technological force, there is one final step we urge you to take to ensure your wealth is not only safeguarded but continues to compound going forward.

And you must take it now.

Because the forces at work here are moving at breakneck pace.

If you bury your head in the sand, you could be left behind as one of the greatest transfers of wealth ever unfolds. Don’t let that happen to you. I share everything you need to know here:

➡ Watch my urgent new exposé, The Final Displacement, free of charge.

Good investing,

Porter Stansberry

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Just For You

Will 2026 Mark a Turnaround for Costco?

Written by Jordan Chussler. Published: 12/3/2025. 

Key Points

• Costco has dealt with numerous headwinds this year, including tariffs and souring consumer sentiment, resulting in a year-to-date gain of just 1.34%.
• Despite that, Costco has beat on earnings nine of the last 10 quarters. 
• The company could turn a corner in 2026, supported by strong fundamentals, bullish price targets from analysts, and negligible short interest.

2025 has been a mixed bag for consumer staplescompanies in the retail space. While Target’s (NYSE: TGT) well-documented struggles have produced a year-to-date (YTD) loss of more than 34%, other retailers have fared much better.

Walmart (NYSE: WMT), for example, has shown it can adapt to the tariffs implemented by President Trump and the resulting shifts in consumer behavior.

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The company—a dividend king, the largest grocer in the United States, and an emerging e-commerce disruptor—has posted a YTD gain of nearly 25%.

Membership-only warehouse club Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) sits somewhere in the middle with a modest 1.34% YTD gain.

So far in 2025, shareholders have endured share-price corrections of more than 17%, 12% and 8% at various points.

With the calendar about to turn to 2026, current and prospective investors are looking for a bounce-back year driven by Costco’s loyal members, solid underlying fundamentals and bullish forecasts from Wall Street analysts.

Costco Has Adapted to Tariffs and Continued to Expand

On Monday, it was reported that Costco is suing the Trump administration, seeking refunds for import taxes that the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have ruled “illegal” — taxes that stem from the president’s tariffs.

While the litigation may take months to resolve, it underscores the broader challenges the company has faced and how it has worked to navigate them.

A key response has been expansion of Costco’s private-label brand, Kirkland Signature, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2025. According to president and CEO Ron Vachris’s comments on the company’s fiscal year (FY) 2025 Q4 earnings call, “Kirkland Signature sales penetration continues to increase, bringing even more high-quality value to our members while offsetting potentially inflationary impacts from tariffs.”

That strategy has been effective: Costco has broadened its Kirkland Signature assortment to provide high-quality alternatives to tariff-affected national brands. CFO Gary Millerchip said those products typically deliver roughly 15%–20% savings to members versus national-brand equivalents of similar quality.

In Q4 alone, Costco introduced more than 30 new Kirkland Signature items, while ancillary businesses — including the company’s pharmacy, optical and hearing-aid segments — posted solid quarters. Vachris also noted that Costco’s merchants adjusted plans to mitigate tariff impacts.

Those moves have helped sustain the company’s growth. In FY 2025, Costco opened 27 new warehouses, bringing the total to 914, and it plans to add 35 more locations in FY 2026 across domestic and international markets.

Costco has also been expanding its e-commerce presence: online sales topped $19.6 billion, a 15% year-over-year (YOY) increase, and digitally enabled sales surpassed $27 billion for FY 2025.

Costco’s Strong Fundamentals Have Remained Intact

The warehouse club’s core business — selling memberships — continues to show strength, with renewal rates of about 90% in the United States and Canada. That helped Costco beat expectations on both the top and bottom lines when it reported FY 2025 Q4 earnings on Sept. 25 — its ninth earnings beat in the last 10 quarters.

The stock reacted negatively after the earnings release, sliding more than 6% before bottoming on Nov. 24. Since then, COST is up more than 4%, and investors have reasons to be optimistic about FY 2026.

Earnings per share (EPS) are expected to grow about 9.21% next year, from $18.03 to $19.69. The company reported quarterly revenue rose 8.1% YOY to $86.16 billion, net income increased to $2.61 billion (up more than 11% YOY), and paid memberships reached 81 million, up 6.3% YOY.

That performance reflects consistent, disciplined management and robust financials. From 2022 to 2025, Costco’s net income grew at an average annual rate of 11.15%, while annualized EPS growth averaged 11.53% over the same period.

Perhaps most notably, net cash from operating activities climbed more than 80% from 2022 to 2025, rising from $7.39 billion to $13.33 billion.

What Wall Street Thinks of Costco

Of the 32 analysts covering Costco, the consensus is a Moderate Buy: 19 rate it a Buy, 13 a Hold and none a Sell.

Analysts’ average 12-month price target of $1,027.75 implies roughly 11.47% upside from current levels. That potential gain is supplemented by a dividend yield of 0.56%, which equates to about $5.20 per share annually at current prices.

Institutional ownership remains healthy at 68.48%, with 3,106 institutional buyers outnumbering 2,596 sellers over the past year. That has translated into inflows exceeding $51 billion versus outflows of nearly $27 billion.

At the same time, bearish conviction appears limited: short interest in Costco is only 1.63% of the float.

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