Letters to Barron’s: Business After the Pandemic
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To the Editor:
Regarding “8 Stocks to Play a Return to the Office—When It Comes” (Cover Story, Aug. 6), people who stayed home and made their own coffee for 12 cents a cup are going to start wondering why they were paying $5 dollars at Starbucks and waiting in a line to get it. I would be careful with office buildings, too, because a lot of them are still empty.
There’s one thing I’m buying a huge amount of now: gas. You can get Exxon Mobil stock and it pays a dividend, and it’s a guarantee they are selling way more gas. Just look at the California freeways.
Dan Laramie, On Barrons.com
To the Editor:
The so-called American worker is in transition to the independent American worker/entrepreneur. In the new model, the employee becomes more of a seller of their services, reversing the traditional imbalance in employer/employee relationships.
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