Giving your financial plan after it happened is akin to telling us your lottery numbers after they had already been chosen. In other words, people who do this are for the most part full of crap. But hey, perhaps this financial wizard does know the future and decided fornits of all places is the most effective place to disseminate it. Perhaps.
My biggest problem the last week was finding parking spaces around my work, and grocery store, and having to wait in line forever at the post office. People were out spending a ton of money on useless crap to give to people who don't want it, like usual. The sky has not fallen, things are not that bad. Sure, if you are a fool who made bad investments and think bubbles last forever you might be bitter. But almost everyone I've talked to is doing fine, even if they don't have enough money for a house bigger than they need, or a boat, or huge RV or something. The 2000's were fun, but nobody expected it to last forever.
The US is still the place to be, so when people freak out and complain as if we have it as bad as the true poor countries in the world, it seems a bit like a spoiled child whining. What's most interesting is the one's doing the most worrying, complaining and scheming this past year are people who are wealthy. Greed is a disease.
