The last visit to the Walmart® in town occurred on Monday. Nearly the entire store has been cleared of merchandise. Surprisingly, people are still going in to purchase “stuff” for no other reason than the remnants are 50% discounted.
The Under Armour® hoodie arrived on Monday. Both the hoodie and the rain jacket will be placed in the storage suitcase since Winter is officially over. There is now a large bag of clothes awaiting donation to charity.
Fruit (so far only Fuji apples) for lunch is procured in the morning at the ABC Store before departure to town. The latter has solved one of the supply problems as a result of the Walmart® closure.
On a side note, the central bank of empire recently raised short-term interest rates again. Yet, none of what the doomsayers predicted has come true. The empire did not default on sovereign debt, asset (stocks and real estate) price inflation is still at an all-time high, and the dollar is still in existence. There was a minor banking crisis, but the entire banking system did not collapse. There were several well-respected pundits who had called for interest rates hikes in order to bring about the necessary “correction.” Now that interest rates were raised, many of those pundits are now clamoring for rate cuts (i.e., return to ZIRP). There’s obviously some conflicts of interest. Needless to say, those pundits were immediately removed from the reading list.
In addition, there is diminishing interest in the sordid “super-duper corona” saga. With the opposition now divided into warring factions, the level of “noise” is beyond the threshold of personal patience. All that matters is the proxy world war in Ukraine.
Addendum: Orange Bad Man was finally “arrested” on bogus charges concocted by that fossil Soros and the Democrat (sic) Party. When other nation-states view myriad debacles unfolding in empire and the collective “West,” their resolve to avoid any association with the latter is strengthened.
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