Forbes: If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them

The cover article discusses how to make money in the Obama economy.

What do you think would be some good businesses or ideas that would earn you money in Obamanation?

Buy a floundering green energy company and wait for the Feds to send you a bailout check.
Sell carbon credits.
Invest in companies that build infrastructure, more bridges to nowhere?
Buy a payday loan place since wages have been stagnant yet food and energy costs continue to rise.
Pawn shop owner?

Prepper supplies.

Wise Foods must be making a mint! Especially with all these storms.

I was at Green Mtn. Guns a while back - they're even selling Wise buckets now.

Gold dealers, gun dealers, high voltage electric car mechanic, government free stuff consultant advocate

LOL wrote: Gold dealers, gun dealers, high voltage electric car mechanic, government free stuff consultant advocate

I don't think electric car mechanics will be in high demand because those cars are not flying off the lots these days. I'm a mechanic and am getting hounded by my past customers to get back in business because I was about half or less what Euro dealers are charging for service... they just want to keep their old cars a few more years (I heard that same thing a few years ago before I got sick).

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Great point. Mechanics & repairs are going to be more in demand as people try to patch up their cars and appliances for a couple more years.

Heisenberg wrote:

LOL wrote: Gold dealers, gun dealers, high voltage electric car mechanic, government free stuff consultant advocate

I don't think electric car mechanics will be in high demand because those cars are not flying off the lots these days. I'm a mechanic and am getting hounded by my past customers to get back in business because I was about half or less what Euro dealers are charging for service... they just want to keep their old cars a few more years (I heard that same thing a few years ago before I got sick).

It looks that way now, but the ~55mpg standard is going to drive the tech towards hybrids and electrics regardless of what the consumer wants to buy. Maybe not today but in the next 10yrs.

Competent Mechanics can make good money these days and it should get even better.

It's hard to find good folks for repairs, too! We recently needed repairs on a small engine. Took it to a local place that took it apart and set on it for over a month. Long story short we got it back with the removed parts in a coffee can, paid $50 to have it disassembled and got a promise of a callback for the broken part "in a week". That was three weeks ago. Oh well, live and learn.

There are a lot of good opportunites if one is willing to take the risk.

LOL wrote:

Heisenberg wrote:

LOL wrote: Gold dealers, gun dealers, high voltage electric car mechanic, government free stuff consultant advocate

I don't think electric car mechanics will be in high demand because those cars are not flying off the lots these days. I'm a mechanic and am getting hounded by my past customers to get back in business because I was about half or less what Euro dealers are charging for service... they just want to keep their old cars a few more years (I heard that same thing a few years ago before I got sick).

It looks that way now, but the ~55mpg standard is going to drive the tech towards hybrids and electrics regardless of what the consumer wants to buy. Maybe not today but in the next 10yrs.

Competent Mechanics can make good money these days and it should get even better.

If the economy remains in the crapper, only a small percentage of people will be able to afford government subsidized electric cars, solar, windmills, cold fusion, unicorns...