Posted on 03/12/2020 10:28:20 PM PDT by aquila48
What is the silver lining of this one that's hanging over us?
I'll start with a few...
1. Less traffic on the roads
2. Cheaper gas
3. In a couple of months (or sooner) there will the the mother of all buying opportunities in stocks
4. Mortgage and refi rates are the lowest in decades if not ever
5. When normal times return again people will have a better appreciation of them
6. This may spell the death knell of unfettered globalism and globalists
Feel free to add yours....
Decades of HGTV kitchen remodels will, for their first time, be used to cook a meal.
I believe that families will become closer. Without multiple activities pulling people apart they may learn to interact together and perhaps even have family meals.
Lots of COVID comeback sales
Homeschooling will boom as parents realize they don’t need union educators.
The best thing is that I turned off the news.
It’s doomsday out there.
Went to work as if everything is normal and go about life with my karate classes, church socials and dinner with friends.
Life has not changed for me and I won’t allow it.
“ Life has not changed for me and I won’t allow it.”
I’ve noticed this. It amazes me how much some people love their circuses.
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Final death of retail stores as we know it.
Regarding cheaper gas, in a couple of months the oil companies will come up with some bullsh!t, corona virus based explanation for why there is a sudden spike in gas prices above where it is now, in order to make up their lost revenue. One thing I’ve learned is that they never lose, no matter what.
Exodus of American industry out of China.
BTW I already re-financed.
Thank you Pres. Trump.
Makes everyone rethink what is important in life. I don’t go anywhere anyway. Hope cable still works. Like my moronic movies to keep me centered. Might read books I’ve meant to read for years.
And then maybe they'll go home.
“Regarding cheaper gas, in a couple of months the oil companies will come up with some bullsh!t, corona virus based explanation for why there is a sudden spike”
Or maybe because the demand went back up due to things returning to normal.
“One thing I’ve learned is that they never lose, no matter what.”
I take it then you’re going to back up the truck and load up on a ton of oil stocks and make a killing.
But why do I get the sense that you won’t?
I think the biggest one is everyone will see what Trump, Gordon Chang and others have been saying, it is insane to rely on China for our medical, technical and consumer good supply chains.
I agree we do need more refining capacity, but this goes beyond that.
There may be more riots : )
BTW this is happening in Canada and Australia and I guess everywhere. People need toilet paper.
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