Worst Case Scenarios Part II: Investor's Guide

[Vogon_Glory]

If "Bidnessman" pResident Gee Dubya gets re-selected, consider investing in oil companies with large US reserves. During his first term in office Gee Dubya has been busy setting the US up for another 1973-style oil embargo by the Arab countries AND has more recently been busy meddling with the internal affairs of Caribbean basin oil producing countries like Venezuela.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. And as Shrub tries for global oil domination

expect an expanded draft to include all able bodied people under the age of 65.....

[SheilaT]

3. Did you know that exactly

such a thing was getting ready to happen in 1917? Woodrow Wilson looked upon WWI as the best thing that could have happened to him in terms of being able to in effect be a dictator. Luckily the flu epidemic occurred and made that impossible, and then the war ended.

Read The Great Influenza by John Barry in which this is detailed.

[rogerashton]

2. Encana corporation, a Canadian corporation, has

large reserves of North American hydrocarbons. Disclosure: I own some stock in Encana and so stand to profit if it rises.