{"id":136409,"date":"2025-04-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136409"},"modified":"2025-04-14T17:32:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T21:32:01","slug":"nyt-magazine-the-panic-industry-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136409","title":{"rendered":"(NYT Magazine) The Panic Industry Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Fortifying the American home has become big business<\/strong>, selling escape tunnels, secret arsenals and even flammable moats.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ron Hubbard, the chief executive of Atlas Survival Shelters, runs one of many companies that designs and builds bunkers for wealthy clients. His business is booming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 2023 survey found that about one-third of American adults were prepping for a doomsday scenario, spending a collective $11 billion over 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/04\/10\/magazine\/bunkers-prepping.html\">Read it all<\/a><\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From underground bunkers to luxury panic rooms, doomsday prepping is no longer fringe \u2014 it\u2019s a booming billion-dollar industry reshaping how Americans face the future.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/US?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#US<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mKWKQFO9iK\">https:\/\/t.co\/mKWKQFO9iK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayadeenEnglish\/status\/1911852537495298423?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortifying the American home has become big business, selling escape tunnels, secret arsenals and even flammable moats.\u00a0 Ron Hubbard, the chief executive of Atlas Survival Shelters, runs one of many companies that designs and builds bunkers for wealthy clients. His<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136409\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,209,149,178,600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-eschatology","category-housingreal-estate-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136409"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136416,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136409\/revisions\/136416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}