Able Fire: The Next War - 2025 and Beyond

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“May you live in interesting times….”

With the Coronavirus on a rampage, the stock market tumbling, over 25 million filing for unemployment, Infections and deaths mounting, and the election campaigns trying to adapt and still carry their respective fights into November, things have sure gotten “interesting” in the world this year. Few could have seen the whirlwind that would soon overtake the world way back in October and November when the only thing gripping the news headlines was the impeachment process. Now, as of this writing, Americans are in “lockdown” mode as they did in China when the outbreak first occurred, and for many it’s a question of how far the money will go to pay rent, utilities and keep food on the table. The unprecedented relief package will likely top $3 trillion, to say nothing of the multi-trillion expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet too.

In recent decades our nation has lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam War, Watergate, 9/11, the Gulf Wars like those underway now in this story, the earlier stock market crashes, and the “Great Recession,” but brothers, we ain’t never see nuthin’ like this! The economic hit will be three to five times deeper than the Great Recession, and as a society we will be profoundly changed by this virus. It’s a most unusual time when you look at the google traffic map and see its all green at rush hour, even in places where driving is a real nightmare like LA. The empty freeways in California are almost eerily silent.

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