[Disestablishmentarian]

Thanks for your comments.

But tell me ... didn’t you feel the icy, dead breath of GD2 wafting through the air in 2020 when half the country was instantly put out of work, oil futs went negative and markets crashed?

[reed13k]

I was buried in a consent decree response and as the market dropped I was putting stowed away cash into buying August call options on the S&P - I did well in 2020.

2021 was not as great a year. Lost a bit on the market and got myself fired (after exiting the consent decree).

This year I’m doing better again with DWAC (though down this week) and reverse ETFs

I haven’t had debt for over 10 years - Christmas present for my wife at the time was paying off the house...

so I haven’t had the same sense of dread that hung over my home growing up in the 70s/early80s when it was a question if we could get hamburger. I remember duct taping the inside of my shoes so mom wouldn’t feel she had to get me new ones.

I felt 2008 was closer to a GD2 then 2020 was...mainly because I knew who was in charge and we would come through it ok.

Now...not so much....though I still hold a lot of hope that “the plan” is actually in full swing....but if no one has hope and faith then it just spirals down...hope and faith are what changes things around for the better.