T-minus five days until the CDC says it’s all right for me to go maskless outdoors. I remember first wearing a mask last March, which actually wasn’t a mask but a bandana. That was comic and strange at the time. I imagine unmasking will simply just be strange.

I think the price of everything is about to skyrocket. Well, other than what it costs to employ me, of course.

4th Gear: “crazy smart engineers that created a badass baby mountain goat”

Have no fear, inflation is here to save the day. I fear we’re going to be going through a stagflation like the 70's experienced.  Interest rates are gonna start to rise soon, probably by end of summer.  Rising rates though is going to create a feedback loop forcing the FRB hand yet again.  

3rd Gear: Yeah, the fact that everybody is saying “THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE HOUSING MARKET ARE STRONG” while there’s billions in unpaid back rent and mortgage payments and nobody’s really sure where precisely we’re all going to land on the knowledge side of things should make anybody thinking long-term wary. Especially…

Look Mr. Jinping, I assure you - in America, 20 mm panel gaps and roofs that fly off in traffic are totally ok! It actually creates an alternate means of egress if Autopilot slams you into a concrete divider! I mean, which it would never do. We good?

Because when the gov sends you checks for not working, there is an incentive to be a bit lazy in one’s pursuit of improvement. Nasty cycle...

Plausible deniability is a hell of a thing.

The same manager said Nimo sells more vehicles than entire sales departments at most FCA dealerships.

If the cost of credit is somewhere in the neighbourhood of 20-30% - because that person is less likely to repay the money, because they’re borrowing a small amount and the cost of setting up a loan is fixed &c - then, yes, I’m OK with lending at 25% because the alternative is an effective ban from getting any credit…

Interest rate caps are well-intentioned, but like a lot of populist economic policies, they tend to be counterproductive.

You know, I have to imagine panel gaps are a pretty serious issue on a roof.

“We want globalism! No, not that globalism...and not that globalism either.”

1st Gear: Get used to it. Mexico works cheaper with similar shipping costs. I don’t think this administration will be doing much to try to keep business here.

“Doesn’t want: Something too unreliable”

I’m not sure paying a lease payment monthly (plus a down payment), none of which you’ll get back, is a better financial decision than buying an already depreciated car that you will be able to sell for about the same as you paid for it.

Good call - a 996 in particular could even go up in value.

Why not a Wrangler?

Man, these are some boring convertibles. She should get a Boxster or a 996 Cabriolet.