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Thank you for this Amrita. Very easy to understand. I'll do a bit more reading but I think you might have convinced me to invest in some PepsiCo. (he says whilst sipping on a Pepsi Max. Not healthy I know.)

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Hahaha, yeah definitely do the research before you go in. I think long term thesis is intact, but short term, that might be volatility depending on the overall story on inflation, recession, etc.

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Nice work, hopefully we see a bull... However looking out upon the Horizon there’s already the worst housing market since the bubble burst 2008, and then there’s the Auto Union ready to kill the goose... All floating on a sea of gov’t inflated cash, and even worse the collapse of the dollar as the reserve currency (which already begun, only no other currency is as yet fully empowered or motivated). Unnecessary war so that the gov’t can empower itself and screw the ppl. Indeed we are our own worst enemy. There’s no other reason to explain the methodical disassembly of what once was a very healthy economy.

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Another company I love in this sector is Diageo. Great lineup of high-end spirits brands, 60% gross margins and a buyer of their own shares.

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I haven't properly studied Diageo, need to look into it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

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Short term Options are a good play, going out 3 months you should see a nicely placed saddle double your pleasure... With this two or three front plan to war is the path for the truly insane, or power hungry sociopaths... But I guarantee It’s the war profiteers that are gonna ask for 100 million billion more, place this on the back of the already broken back of the American taxpayer. Long term we have a long row to hoe if we keep putting morons up. But it’s a done deal the fix is in, they’ve been planning this crap far too long to let a little pretend election get in the way.

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Great writeup! One little-known fact about PEP that I love is that the stock is in the NASDAQ 100 index... kind of an outlier there. Whenever new shares of the QQQ ETF are created because investors want more exposure to AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL and TSLA, they are buying PEP as well.

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100%. Though consumer staples have severely underperformed QQQ and SPX this year, the fact that QQQ contains a small allocation to defensive names such as PEP, can actually help it weather market volatility to a certain degree, in the event of a recession or other events.

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