Crazy. Dow down -1000 at opening

[Skidmore]

20. At the risk of sounding crazy, I just want to mention something.

I don't pretend to understand the machinations of the stock market at all, but things catch my eye which seem weird and out of place. A couple of months ago, I started seeing ads with Ron Paul pushing the idea that there would be a calamitous collapse in markets this summer and people would literally be fighting each other for food. He was encouraging people to prepare (I assume that meant to divest from the market). I came across an article about those ads once but didn't really pay much attention to it. He claimed to be in consultationw with some top economists though. I chalked it up to him needing an income.

However, in late July, I noticed a post on my FB page from something called "The Event Chronicle" which was predicting a similar sort of thing to occur near the end of August with all of the aforementioned calamity being visited on mankind. Out of curiosity I tried to find out who this page belonged to but was not successful other than it is linked to an ebook called "The Event Handbook." I went to the ebook site (it sells for $11.11), but I still could not figure out who is behind this. I thought perhaps it might be linked to Paul's ads, but I could find no connection. I'm not a big one for conspiracy theories, but I do find the specificity of these pronouncements weird.

As I said, it sounds nuts and I'm not attributing events to these scams? or whatever they are. It just is peculiar and I'm curious to see if anyone else has seen the ads or knows anything about this ebook/blog.