I’ll tell you more about this gentleman in just a moment.

But first, let me quickly introduce myself.

My name is Nick Hubble. I’m a financial writer and investment analyst.

For a long time now, I’ve been troubled by the thought that something is wrong with Australia.

The sense of optimism that always helps our country punch above its weight in the world appears to be dimming.

After the awful experience of COVID, many Aussies are fearful of whatever ‘the next big crisis’ is. And how it will be ‘handled’.

That’s what I want to talk to you about today.

The world IS changing. Australia too. And maybe not for the better. If my friend is right, we could be in for a DECADE of pain.

Remember the toilet paper shortages during lockdown?

What if next time there’s no bread in Coles for three days running? Or milk?

What if bananas jump from $3 to $30 a kilo? 

What if there’s rationing on meat, eggs, and vegetables?

What if your local pharmacy runs out of antibiotics...painkillers...or diabetes medication?

What if you can only fill your car up once a month?

Could it happen?

You bet it could. And it might...

For example, did you know that, right now, there’s only about FIVE DAYS’ worth of perishable food in the Australian supply chain?

La Trobe Institute of Agriculture and Food Director Antony Bacic told the Sydney Morning Herald: ‘We’re in trouble’...

The Guardian even says that we’re ‘in the midst of a food security crisis’ as nearly 4 million households can’t buy enough to eat.

Then there’s our fuel. Were you aware that more than 90% of the petrol in Australia is imported?

According to the International Energy Agency, we’re required to hold 90 days’ worth of fuel in reserve...

The Australia Institute says our current stocks would last just 32 DAYS if our imports got cut.

Retired Air Vice-Marshal John Blackburn told The Australian if there are disruptions to our oil supplies:

‘We would have major problems within two weeks... and there’s no plan B.’

It’s the same story with medicines. Australia imports more than 90% of the medications that so many of us, and our loved ones, rely on.

The Australian Financial Review reports (emphasis added):

‘Australia is at the end of a very long global supply chain making the nation vulnerable to supply chain disruptions. Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration has noted that at times there may not be enough of a specific medicine in the Australian marketplace.’

Did you know any of this?

Remember, just two years ago there were fistfights in the aisles at Coles over a couple of rolls of toilet paper.

What if next time it’s Ventolin for your son?

Or penicillin for your wife?

What would you do?

Well you might want to give it some thought.

Because, right now, Australia is looking vulnerable. Maybe more so than at any time in the last 50 years.

We’re dangerously dependent on imports of critical supplies.

And even more dependent on the vehicles that deliver them to us...

Australia’s trucking timebomb

Road freight is the main way goods are moved across Australia. And by that, I mean trucks. They are involved in most Australian supply chains.

Now very few people realise this because it doesn’t make the evening news. But many Aussie trucking firms are fighting for their lives right now.

Here’s what they’re up against...

1. Soaring operating costs. Diesel went up by a whopping 70 cents a litre in 2022. AdBlue — a diesel additive that reduces emissions, was also subject to a supply shock in 2022 that drove up costs even further.  Paul ‘Sludge’ Andrews has been driving commercial trucks across Australia for 40 years. He says, ‘things have never been this bad...’
2. COVID vaccine mandates decimated the workforce — The Age reports that 10,000 Australian truck drivers left the industry or were stood down during the pandemic because they refused to take the COVID jab or submit to daily testing. Many older drivers simply retired. Others switched industries and never came back.
3. Nobody wants to drive trucks, whatever the pay — Brad Rogers, head of logistics contractor BIS, told The Australian: ‘The main issue at the moment in Australia for trucking is availability of labour.’The shortage is so acute some hauliers are offering a $150k starting salary. But it isn’t working. As of November 2023, Seek.com.au was showing a whopping 19,208  truck driver vacancies across Australia.
4. Aussie trucking is facing a demographics crisis — the average age of a truck driver in Australia is 54. That’s old. And younger drivers aren’t coming through to replace them. The truth is young Australians don’t want to waste time training for a career that may not exist 10 years from now, thanks to automation...
5. Climate alarmism will force operators out — new analysis shows that to meet our net zero target by 2050, the last trucks with diesel engines will need to be sold by 2035. That’s roughly 12 years from now. Where’s the rapid-charging infrastructure for road trains? Where are all the batteries Australian trucks will need? This policy will add huge costs to operators who will either have to replace their entire fleets or go out of business.

Does all this affect you?

You better believe it does.

Because if the trucks fall silent in Australia, our society breaks down fast.

Air Vice-Marshal, John Blackburn, told ABC News Breakfast:

‘In Sydney alone there are 25,000 truck trips a week that do our food supply. If you turn that supply off, it's not a matter of having to import some product, your way of life stops.’

It’s not just food though...or fuel...or even medical shipments that are at risk here. It’s things like water deliveries to remote and rural communities...

Garbage collection (picture the bags piling up on your street — even after a few days...)

Without trucks, farm production stops...construction stops...commodity exports stop...

Life would become grim within just a few weeks.

Like I keep saying, Australia is vulnerable right now.

And hardly anyone can see it.

That’s why I’ve been working with one of the world’s foremost geopolitical and economic analysts on a plan...

His name is James Rickards. Most people call him Jim.

Nick Hubble (left) and Jim Rickards (right)
SOURCE: Strategic Intelligence Australia

Jim has advised several US administrations, the CIA, the Pentagon...and various Wall Street institutions in a 50-year geopolitical and economic analyst career.

I’ve worked with him for about 10 years now — to help bring his research to an Australian audience.

And our mission has never been more vital.

Australia is exposed — more so than most developed countries in the world — to the effects of this supply chain crisis...because we’re remote, and almost totally reliant on imports of critical supplies...not to mention the trucks that deliver them to us.

Jim saw this coming long before most in the mainstream media picked up on it. So he wrote a book to warn people...and to show them a path through it.

In the book, he explains why you need to prepare urgently for much higher food and energy prices (including, yes, stocking up on basic food supplies).

He names financial assets that are likely to drop sharply in value over the next year as the crisis intensifies...

And he shares details of the investment portfolio he’s constructed to look after and even grow his family’s wealth while this crisis plays out.

The book is called SOLD OUT: How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation, and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy.

I have reserved a digital copy of this book for you

In a moment, I’ll explain how you can get your hands on it. 

SOLD OUT is a must-read if you share our concerns about the way things are going in the world — and in Australia — and where we could end up, soon.

If what you’ve read so far has made you nod along...

...or helped articulate some of the things you’ve been thinking privately...

...you need to download your copy of this book.

It will give you a plan to protect your wealth and assets against the worst of the effects of a broken supply chain...maintain your standard of living...and maybe even improve it, as strange as that may sound.

It also gives the best explanation you’re likely to read anywhere of how we’ve arrived at this point.

Revealing how a ‘perfect storm’ of factors —

...including Donald Trump’s China tariffs, COVID lockdowns, war in Ukraine and Russian sanctions, crazy monetary policy decisions, Australia’s ‘quiet’ trade war with China, and secretive globalist agendas...

— have combined to break the global supply chain beyond repair and put our way of life at risk.

Plus, you’ll discover why things cannot and will not go back to the way they were.

This is the bit most people can’t wrap their heads around.

Governments and global elites plan to create a NEW and radically different supply chain.

In SOLD OUT, you’ll learn what it will look like...and the effect it’s likely to have on your standard of living...personal freedom...and civil liberties.

More pressingly, you’ll understand what the economic fallout of this crisis is likely to look like over the next few months — and how you can avoid the worst of it.

You’ll hear what the US Federal Reserve is likely to do to try and ‘fix’ the economy and when...

Why Jim thinks most stock market forecasters have got it dangerously wrong...

Which assets are likely to suffer as a consequence, and which could thrive.

For example — in an exclusive Australian chapter of SOLD OUT, which I’ll also send you, I reveal:

• Two stocks to own before the green energy transition really gets going...these two companies benefit from proven tech, proven resources and geopolitically secure jurisdictions. Whatever your views on ‘Net Zero’, billions of dollars (soon to be trillions) are flooding into strategic minerals and clean energy. It makes perfect sense to position yourself accordingly...
• Australian gold producers to buy in a dollar-declining world...more countries are turning their back on the US Dollar and trading in gold instead. And some of them are American allies! More gold traded equals more gold needed. That’s why I think you should take a good look at these excellent Aussie producers...
• Why defence stocks could boom as an increasingly nervous world rejects pacifism...discover why formerly peaceful countries are rearming...and the investments best placed to benefit...
• Why ‘old energy’ stocks could soar again as the developed world faces a long recession...I’ll reveal why I think traditional oil and gas firms could boom again and the one ASX-listed company I’m waiting to pull the trigger on.

Financial preparation is something both Jim and I feel you need to attend to right away.

We feel that most people are sitting ducks, oblivious to the dangers that are coming down the pike.

For example, people just don’t realise...

This supply chain mess is unravelling fast.

But practically no one — other than Jim — is talking about it. Everyone thinks the supply chain crisis is just a case of backlogs caused by COVID...and everything will go back to normal soon.

But most people don’t realise that the supply chain is not going to be put back together the way it was.

Because the US wants China out of the picture.

Jim says the US’s goal is to build a NEW supply chain — ‘version 2.0’ — that doesn’t include the world’s second-biggest economy…

They see China as a growing threat to their national security. We do too. In fact, Australia is more vulnerable than most to a hostile China.

Western leaders have realised that we simply can’t allow China to have this economic hold over us. So they are being elbowed out.

‘Supply chain 2.0’ will be made up of ‘friendly’ trading blocs...what Jim calls a ‘College of Nations’.

The US, Europe, the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and possibly Brazil and India will all be involved — but China will not.

To this end, there is a big move towards ‘onshoring’ that is already underway in the US.

Onshoring is where you build domestic manufacturing infrastructure to make supply chains shorter, more secure and less vulnerable to breakdowns.

To give you one example of this, the world’s biggest producer of computer chips, The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, just signed an eye-watering $US40 BILLION deal to build a chip plant in the US — in Phoenix, Arizona.

This is HUGE

The US needs a constant supply of semiconductors for its cars, smartphones, home appliances, military vehicles, weapons systems, and more.

Taiwan is too close to China...and China keeps threatening to invade. That’s too big of a security risk. So they’re cutting China out of the picture.  

The US President tweets about ‘onshoring’
Source: Twitter.com/hstupak1

Apple is making similar moves. The tech giant announced in December 2022 that it plans to move iPhone manufacturing away from China to India and Vietnam. This is the ‘College of Nations’ being formed.

All of this sounds great in theory...

But the construction of ‘supply chain 2.0’ amounts to a major restructuring of the global economy. Something that Jim says will take 5–10 years.

Hardly anyone understands the upheaval this is going to cause...or the extent to which our lives are going to change because of it.

Remember, if you take China out of the equation, cheap Chinese labour is going too.

Please let that sink in. That fact alone means that everyday goods in stores are going to get a lot more expensive. Too expensive for some.

The cost of living will keep going up. The gap between rich and poor will widen.

And the lifestyle you’ve enjoyed for many years will likely suffer...unless you can comfortably absorb these higher prices.

This is something you’re probably going to have to make peace with.

If you only take one thing away from this letter, please make it this:

We’re NEVER going back to the way things were before COVID

As the pandemic raged in 2020, Klaus Schwab, technocrat and head of The World Economic Forum, said:

‘Many of us are pondering when things will return to normal. The short response is: never.’

Director-General of The World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said something similar around the same time...

‘It’s completely understandable that people want to get on with their lives, but we will not be going back to the old normal.’

And President Macron of France said more recently, in August 2022:

‘I believe that we are in the process of living through a tipping point or great upheaval. We are living through... what could seem like the end of abundance.’

These are strong, deliberate, pointed words.

And you need to pay attention to them.

Because they’re typical of a growing movement by world leaders and elites to nudge us towards a new way of thinking...and behaving...

...where we no longer aspire to greater personal freedom, abundance, and wealth...instead we feel guilty for wanting these things.

...where we don’t embrace our many differences and challenges…but fear them...

...where we feel increasingly more unsettled, anxious, isolated, and fragmented — at odds with one another.

Listen, SOLD OUT doesn’t make for particularly easy reading.

But knowledge is power. You don’t have to accept Jim’s assessment of the state of our world...or agree with his views.

But at least you’ll be armed with information, practical guidance and a plan you can follow to protect your wealth, assets and lifestyle in the crucial months ahead.

I can’t put it any more plainly:

These moves to ‘reset’ and restructure the global economy place your standard of living under direct threat.

Many Australians will discover this, to their horror, over the coming months.

Some will no doubt struggle badly.

I mean, just look at this note sent to a homeowner in Victoria recently, announcing that their gas bill is set to go up by almost $600 from 1 Feb.

SOURCE: Twitter.com/Voice4Victoria

It’s an out-of-the-blue financial shock. The kind we all dread.

But I’m saying it doesn’t have to be this way for you.

There can be upsides too...if you prepare.

Jim says, once you know what’s coming, you can plan and organise your finances accordingly...

...Maybe even grow your wealth using the ideas in the book as your guide.

Now, SOLD OUT is currently on sale online and in stores across Australia.

But please DON’T rush out and buy it

You can get a digital copy of Jim’s book as part of the ‘SOLD OUT Preparation Package’ I’d like to send you.

With this package, you’ll be able to download a copy of SOLD OUT to your iPad, Kindle, or eReader.

AND you’ll get an exclusive Australian chapter of SOLD OUT that I’ve written — with Jim’s guidance.

It puts the supply chain breakdown into context for Aussies...and sets out a specific plan of action for you, including several investment recommendations you can follow right away.

You won’t find the Australian Chapter in any copy of SOLD OUT you buy on Amazon or in Dymocks. It’s only available as part of the preparation package I want to send you today.

And that’s only possible because of the close relationship I have with Jim.

Together, he and I write the monthly newsletter, Strategic Intelligence Australia.

Our letter — and regular email correspondence with subscribers — offers insight and advice to Australians who appreciate Jim’s worldview.

Some of our subscribers read Strategic Intelligence Australia because they want to invest their money according to the way Jim sees the world.

We help them do that by giving regular recommendations inspired by Jim’s research. We even have a model portfolio you can copy if you wish.

Our main goal is to help you preserve the wealth you’ve built up all your life.

But when the world goes ‘mad’, there are always investment opportunities to be found on the ‘other side’ of the trade. We’ll show you where they are.

Other subscribers just want to read a credible, non-mainstream, and dare I say, like-minded view of what’s really happening in the world...

...which, as more Australians are realising, bears little resemblance to what you’ll see on the evening news.

Your ‘Preparation Package’ includes a  subscription to Strategic Intelligence Australia, as well as a digital copy of Jim’s book, SOLD OUT, and my exclusive Australian chapter.

All with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Right now there is an almighty battle going on — waged by governments and big tech companies — for possession of your private data. It’s worth billions of dollars to these companies.

Your data gives them the ability to track and analyse your movements...and then incentivise and nudge you into behaviours that suit their policy aims or revenue targets.

But if you don’t give them your data, they can’t use it against you!

Jim and I both feel strongly, as we move into an era of even greater surveillance, that you should be as ‘off-grid’ as you possibly can be.

Now I know that’s easier said than done. Most of us are 24/7, walking, eating, sleeping data points.

But it might be as simple as deleting your Facebook account if you don’t go on there very often.

It might be making sure you click ‘reject all’ on those cookie requests that are suddenly popping up everywhere on the internet.

It might be using cash in shops instead of reaching for your credit card or, worse, tapping your phone.

It might be a case of leaving your phone at home when you walk the dog...and not wearing your smartwatch to bed.

You get the picture.

Being ‘off-grid’ financially is even more important —  especially with a CBDC on the horizon.

Remember, a digital dollar brings with it the possibility of financial lockdowns, taxation mandates, asset track and trace programs, and heavy-handed enforcement.

Before that happens, we recommend you go off the grid with some of your assets.

I’ve put together a 21-page report that shows you how you can do this.

It’s called: ‘Off the Grid: How to Keep Your Money Under Your Control’ — and it’s also included in your ‘SOLD OUT Preparation Package’.   

Again, there’s nothing too complicated in my report.

You don’t have to withdraw all your cash from the bank and bury it in the backyard.

And you don’t have to do everything I recommend. Only the things that make sense to you.

I’ll show you things like:

• How much cash to hold in your wallet and how much to store in a safe place in the event of financial chaos…
• Why wine is almost the perfect off-grid investment...
• The forgotten art of investing in diamonds...
• Why some rare cigars can fetch tens of thousands of dollars (they can survive for hundreds of years in the right circumstances)…
• The truth about cryptocurrency...is it worth investing in what could be the only secure, untraceable payment network of the future?
• How to establish a land bank...buy foreign assets...a second residence overseas (outside of your government’s reach)...build an off-grid solar system...and more.

These are just ideas, remember.

And, yes, I know that thinking about this kind of thing can put you on a downer.

But history tells us that those who prepare for a crisis can prosper during one. And that’s essentially our mission at Strategic Intelligence Australia.

There’s one ‘off-grid’ asset, though, that is head and shoulders above all the others when it comes to storing wealth and protecting purchasing power.

It’s not digital. Nor is it traceable.

It’s easily transportable. And it’s widely accepted as both a store of value and a medium of exchange.

The once and future money

I’m talking — of course — about gold.

Gold has been considered money for 6,000 years...long before the printing press was invented.

And it will be again, long after paper money dies...and long after people reject CBDCs (remember, communism always fails).

Our advice — start building your gold portfolio right away.

How? Well, you can start by downloading our special report: ‘The Ultimate Bullion Buyers Guide’ — also included in your ‘SOLD OUT Preparation Package’ today.

In this super-valuable report, contributing editor Brian Chu reveals how to construct a portfolio of gold bullion and coins — whether you have $1,000 to invest or $1,000,000.

Brian, founder and manager of The Australian Gold Fund, will talk you through the different types of physical gold...and reveal which kind of gold investment offers you the best value for money.

This is a MUST-READ report if you’re looking for the quickest and most time-tested way to store a portion of your wealth outside of the financial system.

Remember, the government cannot influence the value of gold.

But — whether by incompetence or design — it CAN destroy the purchasing power of the dollars in your bank account. 

You can download a copy of ‘The Ultimate Bullion Buyers Guide’ with your ‘SOLD OUT Preparation Package’ today.

Here’s what you get by acting today

Click the button at the bottom of this page, fill out the short form on the next page, and I will rush you:

• BOOK: A digital copy of Jim Rickards’ book: SOLD OUT: How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation, and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy…
• NEWSLETTER: A subscription to Strategic Intelligence Australia — Jim’s ongoing geopolitical and financial research, plus our model investment portfolio, and more...
• BONUS GIFT: SOLD OUT — The Australian Chapter: How the supply chain crisis will play out in Australia specifically and several shrewd investment moves you can make right away
• VIDEO: Surviving CBCDs with Jim Rickards — an hour-long deep dive into the threats posed by the introduction of an Australian central bank digital currency...and a strategy for avoiding the worst...
• SPECIAL REPORT: ‘Off the Grid: How to Keep Your Money Under Your Control’ — ideas for allocating your wealth to assets that are off the government’s radar...
• SPECIAL REPORT: ‘The Ultimate Bullion Buyers Guide’ — how to construct a portfolio of physical gold assets whether you have $1,000 to invest or $1,000,000.

Jim and I spent a lot of time putting this package together. It’s the exact advice we’re giving to our own families. And I want you to be able to give it to yours.

Now normally, a 12-month subscription to Strategic Intelligence Australia...just the newsletter without any bonuses...costs $199.

But youʼre not going to pay that.

To get everything in our ʻSOLD OUT Protection Packageʼ, including Jimʼs book, the subscription and all the reports and gifts, youʼll pay just $99.

Thatʼs half the regular price. No gimmicks. No hidden charges. We both feel that whatʼs happening is too important to let the cost of subscribing prevent you from accessing our research.

And because I want you to feel 100% confident about your decision today, Iʼll give you the next 30 days to claim a refund if you change your mind and decide you donʼt want to continue with your Strategic Intelligence Australia subscription.

Just call our customer service team to cancel your subscription and you will get your joining fee back.

You can keep your digital copy of Jimʼs book, the bonus chapter, and all the other reports and gifts with my compliments, no matter what you decide.

I hope that sounds fair to you.

Let’s turn the corner together

The last three years have been awful.

But with our help the next three could be a good deal better for you.

I’m not saying it’s going to be easy. Remember, Jim says the global supply chain breakdown could take between five and ten years to resolve...

And that the effects of this crisis — higher prices...supply shocks...and potential social unrest...will be felt for a long while to come.

Meanwhile, global elites, billionaires, and politicians are relentlessly pushing their ‘polycrisis’ agenda through their collaborators in the mainstream media...

Just like COVID...they want to scare, scald, coerce, and nudge you into complying with the next restrictions on your freedom...most likely brought about by digital ID, CBDCs, or the climate ‘crisis’.

Let Jim and I help you through it.

To claim your ‘SOLD OUT Preparation Package’ now, just click on the button below.

Sincerely,

Nickolai Hubble,
Editor, Strategic Intelligence Australia

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