Leon P Smith on Nostr: Well, there's the idea that depressions are where the biggest fortunes are made, even ...

Well, there's the idea that depressions are where the biggest fortunes are made, even if it won't be realized until the rebound. The billionaires will be fine, it's probably the moderately wealthy retirees (like my parents) that'll be hardest hit.

... I am estranged from my biological brother. When Trump started running in 2015, I read so many articles analyzing his psychology. Nearly all of them you could have substituted Trump's name with my brothers and been left with a shockingly accurate article.

It really feels like my personal life foretold the national story, in the way it both parallels and preceded it. Unfortunately I have much less faith in even the vaguest sense of rational self-preservation on the count of a substantial subset of the human population, or the willingness of witnesses to bad behavior to remember long enough to hold anybody accountable.