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Forecast Stormy

Now before you go flying off the handle reading too much into the title I should caution you to simmer down.

Tempest in the tea pot is not what I am shooting for.  Simply shooting the breeze.  These days America is facing a lot of headwinds after all.

While POTUS is constantly embroiled in some imbroglio or another spanning Russian collusion to alleged activities conducted in the extra curricular realm there are local issues taking a bite too. 

Elsewhere in the country brick and mortar stores are fizzling out leaving large malls unoccupied and vast tracts of land and buildings empty.  While India is looking at making millions of cheap toilets with brick America is working on a brick wall.  Perhaps someone might think green and recycle or hit a brick wall?

People seem to be getting scammed following a cryptocurrency fad and housing prices are out of reach for many.

Nut jobs (perhaps post scam or after hitting a wall) with guns are decimating the available population at an alarming rate whilst the law enforcement is caught unaware or ill prepared to respond.  Clearly the lone wolves are hard to track but there have been recent lapses in the security apparatus that raises concern.

In other news the equity market seems to be reaching for new highs but here again tariffs on imports along with monetary tightening seem to retard the likes of Boeing trying to soar away.

Whether or not the weather improves or remains grey is like guessing who gets fired from the White House next.

And on a completely unrelated note we should do away with language claiming any person Single Handedly doing anything - unless there is a specific handicap or absence of limb this seems ridiculous.  Or is found smoking.

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