2025.09.18 | Shaky Jobs, Vulnerable Grains, and the Systemic Cyber Threats Hitting Critical Infrastructure.

This episode of the Brewing Storm podcast examines crucial threats impacting US domestic stability that often do not make the front page. We analyze labor market data, noting that unadjusted unemployment claims show a year-over-year weakening—a subtle undercurrent hidden beneath seasonally adjusted national figures. While overall net farm income forecasts are boosted by record livestock prices and government disaster relief, this masks a fundamental collapse in profitability for grain farmers, leaving the food supply vulnerable to future cascading failures. Finally, we unpack recent CISA warnings about "converged attacks" targeting industrial control systems (OT), emphasizing that adversaries may pivot from soft IT targets to disrupt the physical infrastructure we rely on daily, such as power, water, and fuel.