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The SoCal Flea Market – Main Street Economic Forecast #1 : Covid Vaxd Labor rides a Black Swan? August 2022

The SoCal Flea Market – Main Street Economic Forecast #1 : Covid Vaxd Labor rides a Black Swan? August 2022

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Alright, after starting this website almost two and a half years ago, time for me to quit basking in the bittersweet afterglow of covid narrative vindication (you have been reading my 2020/2021 corona posts yes?) and get on with some bonafide economic forecasting! Way overdue. Before diving into my first published Flea Market Economist forecast, what do you say we set the room tone with a quick tour of the last two and a half years and a snarky quote…

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Pushing Back on the War On Cash

Pushing Back on the War On Cash

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I’ll admit, I’m often fond of impatiently shouting out from the back of a slow moving line to a store cashier who is patiently trying to help a customer with a problem credit card… “hey, do you still take cash?” Heh heh heh. Head’s turn. The person holding up the line gets embarrassed. Yes, sometimes ya gotta be the smart ass to make the point. And despite PayPal’s CEO, Dan Schulman insisting, “the real war is the war on cash”,…

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