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I have an inside source at the financial mega-giant, BlackRock. We communicated this morning.
He was very evasive but told me the following, verbatim:
"Watch what happens when Futures Markets open tonight."
He then told me "Nothing will be the same after this week."
I pressed him for specifics; he wouldn't give me anything.
He then said "We all know what's about to go down, nothing can stop it."
Needless to say, I didn't like the sound of this at all.
I don't even know why I'm passing this along to you, it's a whole bunch of nothing. But it's not.
Head on a swivel. HAVE CASH MONEY IN YOUR POSSESSION. Enough to live on for a couple weeks.
Not to pay bills, screw the bills. This would be money to survive on: Food, Medicine, fuel.
Top-off your "preps."
Fill-up the fuel in all your vehicles.
Check the fluid levels: Oil, anti-freeze, Power steering fluid, Brake fluid, Windshield Washer fluid. Check tire pressure.
Fill-up your spare gasoline cans (Spare fuel for vehicle(s) or for your emergency generator.)
If you have a generator, get OIL for when it needs an oil change - optimally every 100 hours of operation.
Get more plastic trash bags for the house. Oh, and get dish soap and Brillo pads and sink sponges for scrubbing pots/pans clean in the sink.
Don't forget to have extra bars of soap and extra shampoo for washing, new toothbrushes, and extra toothpaste/mouthwash.
Toilet paper and (Bounty?) Paper towels.
Get any last minute food stuff you know you need, Beef, chicken, fish, Bread, Eggs, Veggies, Soups, canned foods, etc. Get the incidentals for food: Salt, Pepper, sugar, flour, Ketchup, Mustard, Mayonnaise, Butter, CHEESE, cooking oils/sprays.
If everything goes to hell, and things start shutting down, there won't be any time - or any way - to get the things you might need to survive, during the time it takes to put things back in working order.
More info if I get it . . . .
UPDATE 5:25 PM EST --
This is completely ancillary to the story above, but I think it __is__ related.
My wife doesn't go shopping at the supermarket anymore; health and mobility issues. Instead she uses their delivery service.
She logs-on to their website, places items in her online shopping cart and checks out. If she orders before 11:00 AM, the order comes the same day. Otherwise, it comes next day.
The doorbell rang a few minutes ago, it was the Supermarket delivery guy. My wife tells him "I canceled that order, good-bye." I was stunned. The doorbell rang again, same guy, I buzzed him in and he brought the food upstairs to our condo.
I took the delivery. My son and I unpacked the bags and put the food away. Mostly junk.
I asked my wife, "Why did you cancel the order?" She replied "Because they jerked me around." I wondered what the hell that meant. So I asked my son and he replied "She ordered sixteen items and they didn't have ten of them." Out of stock.
Uh Oh.
We don't order strange or unusual food. What was it that she ordered that they didn't have ??????
The reason this caught my attention has to do with several conversations I've had with friends over the past few days - some of whom told me "Supermarkets are starting to have bare shelves they way they did during COVID." Except . . . . there is no COVID now.
So why are the shelves becoming bare ?????
It isn't the snow, that was a week ago, and here in the New York City metro area, we know how to deal with snow. Heck, Eight hours after the storm ended, and certainly not longer than one full day after the storm last week, all the roads were plowed, salted, and clear. Everything was back in operation.
So why is it that a week later, my wife can't get ten of the sixteen items she intended to order from the Supermarket?
Making this all the more difficult is that early last year, my wife started having pretty significant memory issues. She forgets. A lot. It is heartbreaking for me and for our son.
So I asked her "What were some of the things you ordered, that they could not deliver?" She doesn't remember. ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!
Anyway, I decided that this thing with the local supermarket may be related to the article above, wherein the contact from BlackRock told me "Nothing will be the same after this week."
I earnestly hope you took my advice and topped-off your preps or at least did __some__ stocking-up. If my supermarket here in metro NYC can't fill ten out of sixteen items ordered, God only knows what shape YOUR supermarkets are in.
