Seeking Safety in Safes

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Poor Americans never had financial security. Now, neither does the middle class. Delusional prosperity is gone and consumers express their anxiety by cutting spending and hoarding cash. But spending on some products mounts. First the good news within all the bad economic bad news was the booming sales of guns and ammunition. Now, with mounting fear, distrust and panic, this has been followed by skyrocketing sales of home safes. Maybe that means some Americans choose guns and others select safes to protect their valuables, particularly cash that they are afraid to put in banks.

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Seeking Safety in Safes by Joel Hirschhorn