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There's two words that accurately depict our present time, unpredictable and precarious. For many people today, fear is their dominant emotion. Fear of the worst. Fear of the unknown.

Be it covid-19, unemployment, the economy, debt-national, personal, college student loans, corporate, junk bonds, fracking, stock market, soon to be evictions, commercial bankruptcy, protests over the murder by police of George Floyd, the presidential election, US provocations against China, Iran, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, to say nothing about the Trumpster's tweets with him reacting to anything that pops into his head.

Think about it.

The states are opening up from the lockdown over the coronavirus. Yet we hear a second wave is coming.

Official unemployment is some 40 million people yet the system in some states has been so horrendous many people have yet to receive it.

The shutdown of the economy with all non-essential businesses shuttered may mean some (many?) will go under. Workers laid off may no longer have jobs. What happens to them?

The national debt grew by $1 trillion just last month. It stands at $26 trillion and growing. Personal debt is in the $trillions while college student debt is over 1 1/2 $trillion. The FED prints $billions, buys up corporate, junk bond debt, rescues mismanaged companies. The fracking companies that have never been profitable only survived selling junk bond debt with high interest rates. Now with oil prices tanking they can't sell new junk bonds because there's no buyers.

The stock market tumbled in March, then fluctuated back up. What do these wide gyrations mean? The stock market crashed in October 1929. Wide fluctuations followed over the next year then came the 30's depression with 20% unemployment. Today we've exceeded those 1930's depression numbers.

There's been a temporary suspension of evictions. That's about to end or has already ended in some states. Are we about to see thousands of people tossed out of their apartments onto the streets because they can't pay the rent? What about the owners of those rent complexes. They have mortgages to pay on those properties. What happens if they can't pay? Bankruptcy for many? We haven't seen the cascading effect that will likely ensue with these evictions and mortgages in default about to come in the few months.

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