The sound of silence.

Pretty normal for a recession, spend your money on food and energy. Not much left over to buy the things we enjoy, such as music and music/audio gear.

I've been enjoying retirement catching up on the audio gear and fixing up my old turnip truck. Forget all the tree huggers, I'm putting a 1995 5.7L LT-1 engine into a 1953 Chevrolet 3100 pickup.
 

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Things seem very quiet at the moment.
I rarely get emails from DIYAUDIO.
I rarely get emails at all.
Ebay is dead.
Etsy is very quiet.
Phone is dead.
My websites are dead.
I can only guess its down to recession again.
No one has any money so no one is buying.
The brakes have been applied, HARD.

If somebody wanted to stop consumption in its tracks, raw materials demand, energy demand, pollution, population growth,etc. , he´s hit the nail in the head.

Even unstoppable mighty China is slowing down, no growth potential when market/demand plummets, as if shot down in flames.
 
Don't worry, the USA is in deep trouble also.
2027, if they make it till then.
Japan and South Korea are also flat to down.

The dollar is bolstered as the petro-dollar, the currency for most trade, so banks must keep dollars in their accounts.
If the preferred currency for international trade changes, think about it.

As it is, the military interventions abroad have seen a lot of money spent, which in hindsight does not seem a wise decision by the rulers in Washington.

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Je suis d'accord, Jean-Paul. I was hoping to travel in my retired years, but it seems the furthest I go these days is to the closest main town for shopping once every three months. The upside is that used manufacturing equipment has hit rock bottom, so my recently purchased 100W laser cutting machine should keep me amused. It cost AU$800.00 but shipping from Sydney pushed this to AU$2400.00 due to its size.