Investments In Bottled Water, Canned Goods, Gas Masks And Auxiliary Generators Soaring
This must be the change Obama said we were hoping for:
Amid the market tumult, a handful of stocks have seen their share prices ratchet up to record highs in recent weeks. And many of them are connected by a curious, if disconcerting, thread: Between them, they provide an investor with essentials for any respectable fallout shelter—makers of bottled water, canned goods, dehydrated broth, gas masks and auxiliary generators.
My first reaction was to wonder why guns and ammo weren’t on that list, but then I remember that sales for those commodities have been spiking since before Obama’s inauguration. It seems as though these other survival commodities are more recent focuses of the market’s attention.
And we can chuckle about this bunker mentality, but this really speaks to the confidence of the average American in our economy and political leadership right now, up to and including Republicans. With the GOP surging in the polls, and the Democrat majority likely to be ham stringed this election if not done away with entirely you’d think, if people were confident in Republicans putting the country back to rights, that we wouldn’t be seeing spiking in these sort of investments.
But we are. Meaning, I think, that Americans are expecting more of the same from Republicans. Maybe not as bad, but still bad.
Tags: apocalypse, Barack Obama
