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Jun 9, 2022Liked by Alan Baerlocher

I hadn't really appreciated the negative oil price impact on investing in future production. China of course has kept the lockdown scares a recent memory, and until that risk falls that's another reason to keep expecting strong performance from energy plays.

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Is the credit card debt really an increase? Surely not yet. Adjusted for inflation current credit card debt is not much different from Q4 2019 so I don't think this is evidence yet of a collapse in disposable income (although I do think thats coming). I remember, although this is for the UK, realising in 2007 that many young coworkers were carrying 30K USD equivalent on their credit cards and thinking nothing of it.

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