Back to episode — Episode 869 Scott Adams - There Will be Cursing and Coffee. Let's End the Political Career of Porkers
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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 t…
← Previous segment →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 government agency who needs to buy some equipment, and somebody comes to you and says, "I know a guy who's got a factory in a country you've never been to, and can you give me a bunch of money and I'll make you some masks?" Well, what do you do with that? Especially
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if you've got 25 of them. Like, how can you tell which ones are real? You know, because you know there's gonna be a certain number of scammers, right? I mean, that's guaranteed. There'll be new people promising things they can't deliver. They get your check, they disappear after the crisis. So it's a real problem. You can't just throw money at people in a crisis because you end up with a lot of ba…
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