I personally am, not abnormal amounts though just filling up the fridge and pantry. sustained $200/barrel is going to freak people out. If anyone has regular stocks like VOO or AAPL or whatever it’s time to get out. I’ve already told my parents and relatives to sell it all.
To me the combo of 3 factors makes the risk big enough to really take action. Means different things for all of course, but I made some moves this week, some small things but also some pretty huge things that will become irreversible before long.
This is crucial though - in times like these where risk is still somewhat unclear but surely wildly dynamic - I did not do anything that I haven’t already wanted to and strongly considered doing. That’s the closest thing to a disclaimer OR advice I’m really ever willing to give, so.
With that said.
I expect Iran knows very well what its capabilities in the region are and what they can achieve re: physical long-term disruption.
It’s clear to anyone what a puffed up ball of circular lies the US economy has grown to (yet again), and we’ve seen what happens when the accompanying vulnerability hits its (invisible) limit of stress.
Current US admin has replaced anyone having varying shades of competence, experience, or honesty - with people having the same basic shade of loyalty. Simultaneously they’ve dropped really all pretense that helping others is even a worthy virtue, let alone anything approaching a real commitment.
Add those up and you get huge, uncontrollable vulnerability of multiple kinds, a huge group of competent people who see exploiting this vulnerability as crucial to their survival, and no one willing or even able to seriously help on the US side if things go off the rails.
I personally am, not abnormal amounts though just filling up the fridge and pantry. sustained $200/barrel is going to freak people out. If anyone has regular stocks like VOO or AAPL or whatever it’s time to get out. I’ve already told my parents and relatives to sell it all.
To me the combo of 3 factors makes the risk big enough to really take action. Means different things for all of course, but I made some moves this week, some small things but also some pretty huge things that will become irreversible before long.
This is crucial though - in times like these where risk is still somewhat unclear but surely wildly dynamic - I did not do anything that I haven’t already wanted to and strongly considered doing. That’s the closest thing to a disclaimer OR advice I’m really ever willing to give, so.
With that said.
I expect Iran knows very well what its capabilities in the region are and what they can achieve re: physical long-term disruption.
It’s clear to anyone what a puffed up ball of circular lies the US economy has grown to (yet again), and we’ve seen what happens when the accompanying vulnerability hits its (invisible) limit of stress.
Current US admin has replaced anyone having varying shades of competence, experience, or honesty - with people having the same basic shade of loyalty. Simultaneously they’ve dropped really all pretense that helping others is even a worthy virtue, let alone anything approaching a real commitment.
Add those up and you get huge, uncontrollable vulnerability of multiple kinds, a huge group of competent people who see exploiting this vulnerability as crucial to their survival, and no one willing or even able to seriously help on the US side if things go off the rails.