Sometimes, it appears that the scariest thing human beings can do is to keep on moving forward. This is one of those times.
We're experiencing as a nation an economic jolt that is so large everyone has gotten swept up inside of it. That doesn't actually happen all that often. Even with a recession approximately every eight years since the Great Depression, there have always been sectors who appeared insulated from the whimsies of a free market system.
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