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After so many oil embargos and price shocks, energy crises and shortages, you’d think we’d know better at this point, that we’d do everything possible to prepare if there’s another one down the road. Unfortunately, we haven’t learned lessons from the painful experiences we’ve had in the past. In fact, it’s almost as if we’re tempting fate, daring it to bring on another crisis.
Everybody likes a summer vacation, but in the last two years taking one was difficult. The pandemic, quarantines, rioting, and economic hardships forced many people to change their plans, leaving them feeling deprived and disappointed. Are we about to see another summer of discontent?
Why are young people dying at record rates?
Most business stories are clearly about business, but some can’t be classified that simply. They can just as easily be labeled current events, health trends, or something else. The story that follows is an example of this, and probably the best way to categorize it is “bizarre.” An additional comment: You may find it disturbing.
Everybody likes a summer vacation, but in the last two years taking one was difficult. The pandemic, quarantines, rioting, and economic hardships forced many people to change their plans, leaving them feeling deprived and disappointed. Are we about to see another summer of discontent?
Events thousands of miles from Israel could generate windfalls in political and economic benefits. These are not things that may happen sometime in the future, but developments that are unfolding right now. Unfortunately, wherever big money goes, risks and danger always follow. The current situation is not an exception.
Just before Shavuos, some scary business stories broke - not scary in the way watching a Dracula or Frankenstein movie is, fiction where anything can happen but no one really gets hurt. These news stories were frightening because they were about real life, appeared within a day or two of each other, and were about events that may be imminent. With just a few words some of Wall Street’s most brilliant gurus sent shivers down investors’ spines. Even now, about two weeks later, The Street is still rattled by their comments.
