I swear to Crom, I need to get a little shrine going for the household god of frustration. Seems like every time I take a step forward I get yanked back forty steps. Grr.
But, life goes on…like it or not.
I see that the Biden administration (Motto: is it naptime yet?) is quietly starting to float the idea that, mmmmyeah…that inflation thing might be around for a while. And then, in an epic display of chutzpah, these same mouthbreathers crow about unemployment figures and ‘jobs for the taking’. Hey, I’d have great employment numbers to show, too, if I forced businesses to close and then counted their reopening as ‘new jobs’.
I’m just getting to be a cynic, I suppose. But, these are historic times. Which leads me to this quote: You do not make history. You can only hope to survive it.
I’m pretty resilient these days, but I’m still not at the point yet where I’d feel comfortable pulling the plug on the rest of the world, locking the gate, and letting the world burn while I do my own thing. Not yet. But…man, I’m working on it.
“Anceint Chinese proverbs” aside, disasters and adversity are, in fact, opportunities for others. We have an economy that seems to have the throttle dialed forward yet we have shortages everywhere, housing prices in the stratosphere with interest rates that are at lifetime lows, and a populace and government that thinks money grows on trees and that everyone is entitled to ‘their fair share’ in the form of absolved student loans and ‘basic universal income’. If the disaster/opportunity ratios are proportionate, we should be seeing one amazingly epic wave of opportunities coming up. Where? Well, I think that real estate is going to contract in a year or so…maybe less. My goal is to be in place to jump on it. Other opportunities? Labor brokers probably can write their own check these days. Same for logistics and transportation coordinators. The energy industry is probably gonna be a nice place to be. And, of course, you can never go wrong selling weapons, food, medicine, entertainment, or sex.
Interesting times. Be curious to see how this all shakes out in a year or two.
“Be curious to see how this all shakes out in a year or two.”
If this shit-show shakes out in two years we’ll be very, very fortunate.
Yeah, I can see that. I think some things will blow over in a year, maybe two; but some are gonna have a hangover that lasts a decade.
Selling sex?
BTDT-GTTS.
“Man, I can’t give it away on 7th Avenue…“. – Mick Jagger
Besides, we already all “live in interesting times”.
The trick, it must be emphasized, is to live through interesting times.
I’ll let ya know how that works out.
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Not my thing. To me, and for me, they seem like a safety hazard.
I could see a limited use in static defense positions against the Zombie hoard. Definitely not a move and shoot tool. LOL
lumber finally crashed here but osb/plywood still at record price. housing slowing down as folks balk at the prices too. stagflation/deflation on the wy, next up economiccollapse.
“Next up economic collapse”
Been hearing that one since about 1975. Sooner or later it will be correct.
Indeed. Even a broken calendar is right once a year.
I don’t think it’s going to take a year for the real estate market to “contract.” HOUSING Prices out here in the Wild, Wild West are stratospheric! People can’t even afford to RENT anymore! Something’s gotta give…
…As the old musical cartoons used to say, “Follow the bouncing ball…”
As of today locking down spending here, trying to see how much money we can have in the bank by year’s end.
If it’s in the bank, it’s not “money”.
It’s “currency” whish is used as if it were money, and in tough times, it is a target of opportunity, and thus not yours.
a) Take it out of the bank. I beg you.
b) Turn most of it into tangibles. Gold and silver ideally. Food, trading commodities, and tools secondarily.
c) Keep maybe 10% as a cash float for tough times. Ideal goal is 3 months’ expenses. Anything that lasts over 3 months, you’ve got bigger problems than just cash on hand.
The only reason for a modest bank account is as a place to get your checks and deposits cashed. Which should happen regularly, the same day they hit the account.
Not for savings.
Nor for safe deposit boxes (which is two lies at once. They are only actually “boxes”, neither “safe”, nor for “deposit”, and yet again, it must be emphasized, not your boxes. The bank owns them, and grants Uncle inspection and opening on any whim they concoct. Write that on your hand in Sharpie, lest ye forget.)
If you have something needing safe storage, you can do better with a small concrete vault in your back yard or south forty, hidden, far more secure, and with much greater capacity than anything the bank laughingly refers to as “safe deposit”.
The price a spec pre-cast underground concrete vault, with manhole access (which can be covered with a fiberglass cover, a piece of pond liner, and buried indefinitely) is less than the fee for even the smallest safe deposit box over a few years.
Why anyone with even a modest back yard wouldn’t do this baffles me no end.
Just saying.