Here’s the thing I keep seeing about the economy. It’s gloom and doom 24/7 and in all honesty I don’t expect much to change other than the continuing devaluing of currency. People are going to get to where they start losing what little they have and are probably going to see a mass of suicides.

Right now a new phenomena is people wrecking the cars they bought and having the insurance companies write them off as total losses. Been seeing accidents that should not have happened, and in fact, I saw one yesterday that by all rights made absolutely no sense.

Things are going to get way more interesting for the consumer who is smart right now.

Right now a new phenomena is people wrecking the cars they bought and having the insurance companies write them off as total losses.

I could see that happening.

Been seeing accidents that should not have happened, and in fact, I saw one yesterday that by all rights made absolutely no sense.

Vaxmentia is also in play. The few times I go outside the wire, I see a lot of crazy shit.

Things are going to get way more interesting for the consumer who is smart right now.

I'm not sure I know what you mean by that. A little help?

Insurance companies will hurt by sudden death syndrome, arson in bankrupt businesses and now car totaling "accidents."

car totaling "accidents"

When I was driving big truck in Kentucky, a car hit my trailer tandems. I saw the air bag blow in mirror.

When she hit me, the sub frame of trailer gott bent. The trailer was junk. :-/

When there are no consumers to buy a product, the prices drop. Rather than buy that brand new car, if you wait two years, that new car is going to plummet in price because of the huge leftover inventory. I was able to get a 2019 for a song because it was not sold in three years.

That being said, people need to have patience, focus on the little things such as food and utilities and wait to spend on big purchases later unless they have a way of actually maintaining their wealth because lots of things are coming I think. Between the vaccine die off, and crypto shitting the bed, lots of things are going to make the patient people wealthy by default.

Was looking at the obituaries from my home town. Lots of people dead who are in their 20’s 30’s, 40’s and 50’s who just seemingly keeled over out of the blue. Out of the hundred or so obituaries, I saw maybe 10 that said that they’d died due to cancer or lost their battle with something. The rest, no cause of death, no mention of dying at home surrounded by loved ones. Just more or less a death notice. While I realize that you pay for these things, it struck me as odd. Lots of them have “memorials can be made to the family”.

Rather than buy that brand new car, if you wait two years, that new car is going to plummet in price because of the huge leftover inventory.

GM - Fort Wayne Assembly, had thousands of Silverados stashed all over the outskirts of town. I don't remember if it was because of the chip shortage or overproduction, but they say that mice/rats ate the soy-based insulation off the wiring harnesses and they will all have to be scrapped.

I was able to get a 2019 for a song because it was not sold in three years.

What'd you get?

I'd say a linear slow desent of 12 months, then after the great die off shifts gears a much greater shift for us all dealing with five billion ppl suddenly comong down with sudden death syndrome all at the same time

the consumer who is smart

I recently met a woman that used to drive big trucks with her husband. They would pick up loads of produce in California and take them back to Pennsylvania.

Because they wanted that produce out east, getting those loads back there as quickly as possible really paid well. Plus, they were their own brokers so they made all the money. Not very many of those kind of independent drivers around any longer.

We need more like Will and Sonny and Pruitt Trucking ;)