Demand for Guns, Food Stamps Indicates Uncertainty: Analyst

CNBC ^ | 10/18/10 | Michelle Lodge

[Nachum]

The rise in gun sales and food stamp demand are indicators of a fearful public struggling financially, Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist, ConvergEx Group, told CNBC Monday. “Oddly enough, buying a gun still holds very steady, but buying ammunition not so much,” said Colas, who analyzes trends in the economy and financial markets. In addition to firearms and food stamps, ConvergEX reviewed sales of gold and silver coins and used cars. “That tells us that there are more first-time [gun] buyers coming in to buy firearms and that speaks to your worries about security. They buy a few rounds

[Red in Blue PA]

Demand for Guns, Food Stamps Indicates Uncertainty: Analyst

Where can I sign up to get a job stating the bleeding obvious?

[mad_as_he$$]

Please do not spread that around. I want my bunkers to stay safe. Do not forget about Hwy 89 in your plans.

[Red in Blue PA]

http://beprepared.com

http://www.thereadystore.com/

#10 cans are expensive but have a shelf of 25 to 30 years, versus 5 to 10 for MRE’s.

[MrB]

It is not recommended that you use drums that contained pickles, peppers, garlic, salsa, onions, etc... :)

[Kartographer]

The ones I got before they were washed away in a flood came off craigslist from a winery.

[Buffalo Head]

The author doesn't seem to have a clue about the Obama Panic of 2009. A classic example of correlation without causation. Sort of like observing that fat folks mostly drink diet soda, while the thin people mostly drink sugared soda. Therefore, by his reasoning, diet pop causes obesity!

[The Comedian]

Should be pretty easy to close I-15 at the Utah/Arizona border and keep the hordes from L.A. out.

First thing I ever did as a "survivalist" (what is now called a "prepper", or what used to be called an "American"), was to identify all the bridges between population centers and me.

Nourish the inner sapper.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Teacher317]

The guns are to protect those without food stamps from those with food stamps after they run out of food stamps.

bump

[Don Carlos]

Ah, yes! My kinda wine, aged in 55-gal steel drums. :)

[Seruzawa]

89 is pretty far out of the way. They’d have to cut east after St George. I-15 would be blown in the Virgin River Pass long before St George. So 89 should be fairly safe. There probably won’t be many moochers coming from the east to 89 because they’d have to make it through most of Arizona. I think the worst worry would be I-80 from Than Franthithco.

If you look at the maps you can see that even in our modern age that Utah is fairly isolated. Lots of land but not many highways in and out. And those highways mostly pass through canyons. The most moochers would come from the west and southwest.

This all just conjecture in fun, of course.

[Liberty Valance]

bttt

[Kartographer]

Plastic and I am sure they didn’t age the wine in them. ;-)

[h97floor]

I also liked other sites like that.

Including: http://www.preparewise.com/ and http://www.buyemergencyfoods.com/shop/index.php/food-storage/emergency-food-storage.html

Those were really helpful as well.