It's my pleasure to welcome you here at the Clark Howard Show where it's all about you

and that wall of yours.

I want you to learn ideas to me so you can save more and spend less and don't let anyone

ever rip you off.

So we went through a time back in April and May where there were all these dire predictions

that we would have extreme food shortages in the United States and that there would be

things you would not be able to get for who knows how long.

And it led to a lot of panic buying there.

It already been panic buying of paper products, toilet paper and various food items, can

goods, things like that.

What the alarmists fail to take into account is how good businesses, how good business

owners are, how good capitalism is at responding and reacting to things that seem like they're

insurmountable in the short term, but they're able pretty quickly to come to grips with

it.

And I know there are already articles appearing about how we're going to have a potentially

very large spike in coronavirus mixed with seasonal flu coming up as soon as in the next

month and that it's going to lead to panic buying from consumers again for goods like

occurred particularly in April and May.

And I want to give you some peace of mind that retailers and manufacturers have really

responded to the needs of the marketplace and have made changes that are going to make

even some level of panic buying that could occur, not have as much effect on product shortages

is we had particularly in the spring.

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