Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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ng things he does. He'll assign a nickname or brand somebody, and then he'll say, "It's called." And I started doing that. And somebody says the Dow is way up. Let's check on that. Well, well, well, that was way up. Oh, there will be cursing. If you're wondering if I changed my mind, oh no, I did not, because as far as I know the Congress has not yet passed the bill. We'll check on that in a mome…

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, it seems that our stock market has decided to find a little optimism, and I believe that the stock market is correct. There is room for optimism.

This will be your worst weekend, your best week simultaneously. That's right. You're gonna hear some insanely positive things and some really bad stuff. It's all gonna happen this week, but we're gonna turn the corner. You're in the elbow. I call it the elbow of the curve, you know, where you're going flat, flat, flat, flat, flat, but you reach the elbow, and then you know what's ahead of you? It's good stuff. So we're in the middle of the elbow right now, and we are guaranteed to get some good stuff.

Allow me to test the awesome power of social media in a way I've never done before. It goes like this. There is an unexpected problem with delivery of some of the protective equipment. I'm talking about masks and gowns and stuff. So in an amazing display of not just patriotism but humanity and ingenuity and everything that's good about people, people everywhere rose up and said, "How can I help?"

So there are littl

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e factories converting in this country and other countries, and middlemen trying to find connections to connect the people who are making stuff to the people who are buying it. And that sounds all good, right? But the problem is there's too much of it, and the people who have to vet it are not capable. You know, they're not really even experienced. So if somebody came to you and you work for some…

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