… COVID wasn’t even that long ago? Is everyone’s memory really that bad?!?
Edit: guess they’re talking about the oil markets in isolation. But I still would want numbers, COVID was probably a larger shock, just in the other direction.
Don’t put a quote mark in your password! I learned the hard way with password’drop table users;’
/S
Two of my favorite are from Antoine de Saint-Exupery:
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” (Also attributed as a Native American proverb)
Agree on most of this.
I’d emphasize that while “we” (the USA) didn’t diversify, many others have. China keeps looking like it’s coming away a winner from all of trump’s missteps. They’re already a leader in battery and solar; benefiting from having ramped up renewables so much; and while the US is distracted in the Middle East can probably get away some shenanigans in their part of the world with far less blowback than would have happened a year or two ago.
Republican policies would be comically self-defeating… except it’s hard to laugh when they make so many people worse off :(
And somehow their own failures don’t lead to their defeat at the polls, I still struggle coming to terms with that.