10:16 – Barbara is still driving the 4X4 to work. She called this morning to let me know she’d arrived safely and said that the main roads were in good shape but there’s still ice on some of the neighborhood streets. When I took Colin out this morning, all four feet skidded out from under him and he went down. I suspect there’ll still be quite a few fender benders today.
We finished series two of Mr. Selfridge on Amazon Prime streaming the other night and we’re now about halfway through series five of Justified. Next up is series two of Vikings. I like having both Netflix and Amazon streaming. When we start to run short of stuff on Netflix we watch Amazon and vice versa. At about $15/month combined for both of them it’s a no-brainer to have both.
Someone posted a link to Another Perspective : The Case Against IMMINENT Economic Collapse, which gets it mostly right. The only exception is the author’s comment on the eurozone, which in fact is imploding right now. But the euro is not the dollar. The federal government can create as many dollars as it needs, instantly and at any time. That means the dollar can’t suffer a sudden collapse. What it will suffer is a gradual loss in value because of ongoing high inflation, which is essentially a tax on anyone holding dollars or dollar-denominated debt. That’s why I expect a slow but inevitable slide into dystopia rather than a sudden economic collapse. That’s also why I’d prefer to hold most of our assets in things like property and physical goods rather than in dollars or, worse, in electronic values in a bank database.