Fiat World
March 8, 2019·16 comments·In Brief
That's a still photo from the Netflix documentary "Behind the Curve", a really good movie about the Flat Earth movement. I'll come back to this in a minute.
But first ... I was going to save this email for the Mailbag, but couldn't resist using it now.
Hey There Ben You and your contributors seem to be continuously complaining, whining and expressing a kind of morose discontentment. Why are you all so unhappy and dissatisfied? Maybe take a few of your intellectually earned dollars and buy yourself and each of your contributors a surfboard, mountain bike, snowboard, and climbing gear, with the proviso, all must be put to use. Then see if the tenor of future essays will have changed. Who knows, maybe action speaks louder than words. -- By the way, the idea of Joining a Pack is very unappealing. -- Anyway, Cheers and Aloha from the North Shore, Charles
I mean, Charles is an ass. But he's not wrong.
And then I came across this gem (h/t Bloomberg Radio's Lisa Abramowicz):
Sixty percent of that record credit card debt (per this survey) is for daily expenses (food, utilities, rent, etc.) and retail purchases. When asked what they would be willing to give up to get out of debt, only 6% would give up their smartphone. Of course, 13% said they would give up their right to vote. [Pro tip: you already have.]
I thought about this record credit card debt, mostly comprised of food and rent and clothes, when I paid $4.99 per lb for organic, boneless/skinless chicken breasts at Stop and Shop last night, because it was the cheapest chicken breasts they had for sale. I am not making this up.
And then, of course, I was greeted this morning with the news that Mario Draghi and the ECB, by unanimous vote, had decided to resurrect the term loan stimulus program to European banks as some sort of ... precautionary measure? effort to slam the euro in our DM beggar-thy-neighbor race to the currency bottom? retirement present for Mario?
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