what with gravitational waves being discovered and the oumuamua incident not that long ago, how do you think the markets would respond when they find/announce the real extraterrestrials? just saw the trailer for men in black 4, so that got the thought going if they decide to do a V-shape selloff then ramp straight up, like they did several times with geopolitical events, i'd like to be prepared, lol. won't touch the crude oil in that instance though, maybe they'll have figured out alternative fuel at that point. so in that case mostly bullish US dollar (reserve currency for intergalactic trade?), ES (stocks gotta ramp, esp. if they put a positive spin), T-bonds (safe haven bid up), also Sugar #11 (jk, but only according to men in black 1)
I gave a chat last month with the lofty title of "Einstein was RIGHT! E = mC² = Time = $$$: How Technology moves Humanity Forward"... Basically, I noted the relative trade-offs made between 'energy' and what we want done, and how at each turn, every time we reduce the cost of transformation, we unleash ever-finer degrees of 'progress' in an economy driven to facilitate humanity's 'getting along in Life.' (Think about how we get stuff: war, barter, value-money, paper-money, fiat-money... each stage marked by a more active economy...) SO! If the MIB acknowledged ETs and their technological advances, there would indeed be a transformation (I think) just as you've imagined. Back in graduate school, I wrote a paper outline about a Star Trek Economy: one where food came from a 'replicator' and fun could be had on a 'holodeck' and all of *Life* [essentially] came from a [free-or-nearly-free] transformation of energy. (And so, if you were able to develop/keep a sustained fusion reaction, you'd have a nearly-inexhaustible energy source, and your Replicator Food is just a university patent away...) Happy Sunday morning, all...
They're already working on it, similar to 3D printing, I think they'll achieve it in our lifetime (unless you're 60+)
Ok so dump food groups when that happens. Farmers use to get almost 40 cents of every food dollar now down to 19 cents which is why so many bankruptcies, and why there losing upwards of $200 per cow when sold.
I'd sell kitchen appliances and buy automobiles (and other non-kitchen-appliance buyers of sheet metal, simple circuitry, and formed plastic parts...).
I saw one of these when I was a kid, walking with my brother to go hang out at the basketball court. He didn't see it but I see it in my mind's eye today as clearly as I see the screen in front of me. Same instantaneous acceleration except it seemed to get larger first.
Yeah I'm pretty much a believe it when I see it type, but I worked with (electrical engineer) these Navy sensor systems for 30 years: FLIR, camera, radar and they don't lie. And the pilots are damn well trained too. What did they see (and it was more than one plane, plus the carrier radar) no frickin idea. But it had no propulsion heat and moved like no aircraft known. Very strange...