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As I always do on a federal holiday, I go check my mailbox and wonder why there aren’t any letters.
I nearly always compound that by feeling that it’s a great time to go to the bank, and then wonder why the parking lot is empty and the doors are locked. Yes, I’ve done this an embarrassing number of times.
I figure if you can be amused by your own mistakes you’ll never run out of material.
But as I contemplate what’s going on in capital markets around the world, which wakes me up at 3am from time to time, I wonder if the Bank Closed sign will be there on some other day, perhaps for real.
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crossposted at mcegregious
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I’m not sure I’d advocate burying coffee cans of cash in the yard, but it is a thought.
I’m out of the stock market and I figure the tattered remains of my IRA are screwed. Money market funds are probably ok, though that week in the middle of September when they broke the buck was a living nightmare. Stay tuned for the wild ride.
**all kinds of caveats about not being financial advice for anyone else etc etc. ymmv
I was contemplating planting cabbage, not cash.
Well, if this were the 1920s, you could do both simultaneously because ‘cabbage’ was a slang term for cash at that time, as was the generic term ‘green’, not to be confused with terms such as ’sawbuck’ which was an specific term associated with a $10 bill.
Cabbage = cash? lol… Cabbage was worth more than cash in Russia in the 90s and we may be learning from them in unfortunate ways.
you know, you can do so much with a head of cabbage – and in the right hands, it’s a handy weapon as well. *g
I figure if you can be amused by your own mistakes you’ll never run out of material.
I’m living proof.
This does seem like a bit of an omen, though, doesn’t it?
Cujo – awesome post today. Please write more, even if it’s scary.
Unfortunately, the research is so scary I sometimes am tempted to drop the subject.
Nooooo we need all the brainpower we can amass – please stay.
Dugg.
Dugg & rec’d. Yep.
And I actually do think that bank accounts will be ok, more than anything else. Keep FDIC limits in mind and read the newspapers and CalculatedRisk and Mr. Mortgage for the latest.
Presidents Day was always Shoppers Gone Wild Day. Maybe hype is dead now and good riddance.
Fabu