Quote from: TDoS on Dec 31, 2023, 09:12 PMI thought you were a ROE participant from way back?
No, I didn't write arguments based on ROE.
QuoteThat would put your buy in back what, a quarter century? Isn't a bit of normalcy bias creeping in perfectly natural? You bought like RVs and bug out vans years and years ago....how many bug outs because of collapse did you endure in them, waiting for the world to come back to its senses before the cities became safe again? Had fuel, working ATMs, grocery stores open, etc etc.
Owning an RV was a precaution against ending up homeless, as well as a way to live cheap once I retired.
QuoteAre you worried about immigrants making it to the Great White North? The US didn't collapse when millions of Germans were flooding the US in the 1880's. How about the Irish in the 1850's? Grandpap came into the US during the Eastern European immigration wave, sometime early 20th century. Does history interpret them as the cause of the Great Depression?
Not worried about immigrants to Alaska. Most people won't come here for the same old reason: Too cold.
German and Irish immigrants never flowed in here at the rate of 300K/month. It took decades for those waves of immigration to play out. There was time for them to be absorbed into the economy, which at the time was growing.
QuoteHow about some optimism?
I don't see any good reason for optimism. The economy is a mess, the world is swimming in irredeemable debt and while 2024 may not be "the big one", I find no reason to think things will get any better over the year.
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