Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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I had already identified that campaign as extra incompetent. Coincidence? I don't know. Yeah his name is Ian Sams. Nothing that matters. All right I think that's about what's going on. I don't know what's happening with this Kamala Harris thing. It's sort of weird because I feel like I'll say ABC and then I'll watch right in front of me and people will say Scott why are you saying XYZ and I'll s…

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y things, you know let's say when things go back to normal, what happens with the people who have extra money? Do they spend it extra fast or does it become part of their permanent savings? If the people who actually gained money during this, and I might be one of them by the way so I'm a perfect example. As far as I know at least in the short run my income will be roughly the same because you know at least for the next three months everything was sort of in the pipeline and most newspapers will still be in business and all that. So at the end of three months I will have saved a bunch of money that I normally would have spent. I would have traveled. I might have bought more stuff. I would have gone out more. I would have gone out to restaurants more. What happens to that money? Now in my case you know maybe I have enough money so it doesn't make any difference in the world but it could be half of the country has extra spending that's pent up and they've been locked in their houses for three months so you might see a pouring of spending like we've never seen before just because it's possible. You know the people who are living paycheck to paycheck let's say as a server for a restaurant they weren't going on big expensive vacations anyway so that for them the job is to survive you know to buy the basics. But there are a lot of people who are going to have some extra cash and they're going to spend like crazy when, unless they just put it into the stock market which is also poss

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ible. Oh by the way all that cash that came out of the market that's got to go somewhere right? People don't sit on cash in the long run. It's not a thing. Nobody does it. It won't happen. So all of that like trillions and trillions of dollars that just people took out of the market they parked it somewhere. Where's it going? It doesn't disappear. It just moved. And as long as it's still there i…

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