After reading this news story that half of Americans are skipping meals because of affordability and a bad economy, I have to ask how are you all doing out there?
I heard from a real estate agent friend of mine that REOs, i.e. bank foreclosures on home mortgages, are going up like crazy, which is a sign of bad times, like the recession of 2007-08.
I have heard from others about rents not being paid, lack of jobs, etc.
Every day, there’s more news of corporate layoffs, moreso than usual.
I live in the economic bubble of the SF Bay Area, where tech wealth more-or-less insulates me and mine from the most serious consequences of a bad economy, but how are things elsewhere?
You have Trump to thank for the bad rice harvest too, because a good chunk of that Middle East petroleum that is blocked because of the war that he started would have to making fertilizer.
If you think it’s bad now, wait until next year’s rice harvest…
Its because of the el nino, heavy rains beat up the rice for this harvest, and they expect a severe drought for the next harvest (we have two per year). We can blame trump for the diesel prices and the electricity price but not for the rice harvest.
The positive of this is that we are switching to solar at an unbelievable pace and I think this islands will be solar powered for the most part in 5-10 years. Yes, it’s all Chinese imported, but at this time it is better to partner with the Chinese to import solar panels than with the Americans to import diesel