I’m a smart guy...I think :)
But after about maybe 32 or 33, I couldn’t see things coming anymore.
Putting the pieces together to get the big picture.
I was very good at it from maybe 24 to 33. Made some $$ in the market.
Then it’s like some part of my brain shut down and I coud only see 2D.
At 51, I think that’s they will it will be until the end.
Maybe when I die I will find out why :)
“Then it’s like some part of my brain shut down and I coud only see 2D...At 51, I think that’s they will it will be until the end.”
I don’t really know why I caught this one, considering my record of being wrong a lot more than right. Maybe it was my several trips to China and seeing what they had built up in 40 years (at the time), starting with literally nothing - and I saw enough of the country to know that they weren’t ‘faking it’, it was real what they had, in material goods and developmental level. But I also know their history of genocide with Mao, but even so, it still did not make sense that they would put themselves through this nightmare...as some kind of stunt. No country, free or otherwise, does that just for kicks. In China’s case, it meant that they would never be looked at again as a ‘reliable trading partner’ - yet they still felt the lockdowns were needed. That said a lot.
I think many others around the world figured it was due to China being a Third World cesspool (not true, not even close in their cities) or that these types of pandemics only really affect Asian people - possibly, given the recent history. But my concern, at the outset was more with our supply lines, as I knew they had their sticky fingers in everything, and the shutdown of their economy pretty much for the entire month of February (and still not close to normal yet) had to hit us hard...so I bailed.
What’s interesting is that I still haven’t seen the economic hit from China yet, independent of the sickness here. It’s only showing up in the medical area...but I still expect it here, we have far too many ‘made in China’ or ‘components made in China’ stuff to simply not be impacted.