What the HECK Are People Spending Money On?

I don't know about you...but in my circle of business friends (pretty big circle), nobody seems to be spending money on friggin anything! All within the last two months.

-Client projects have disappeared for web designers
-SEO pro's can't get their clients to pay their monthly payments
-Affiliate managers can't get affiliates to promote their products
-Long-time Internet marketing mentors are getting heat from the FTC about their money making claims (and you know that's the primary way they get people to buy).

It's like the ONLY thing people will buy these days is yet another get rich quick Internet marketing system. But people aren't even buying those offers! The few that do spend the next six months making their whatever product and going through whatever product launch process they've bought into only to get trickle in sales if anything at all. When the "get rich quick" industry is starving, that's cause for alarm

So, I ask the question what the heck are people buying?

Here's some more of a list of what I'm hearing from my connections of what people are NOT buying:

-Insurance: Everyone is in fear of the health reform and commissions have been cut in half for a good chunk of insurance agents

-Real Estate: Because no one has good enough credit to get funding (still)

-Cars: Maybe if you have enough cash to pay cash but still car sales are virtually non-existent no matter what you might hear on the news

-Education: People will go to free Meetups or webinars instead of the paid seminars they used to attend

-Memberships: People are looking at their credit card statements and just nixing anything that has a monthly payment attached...including membership websites

-Auto-ships: Even one client of mine has reported next to ZERO sales for the past month for some kind of network marketing vitamin drink he sells through his website whereas for the past 3 years he's had at least 3 sales per day

Where else are you seeing "the axe" before your very eyes? What industries are you avoiding like the plague? Is there any industry you're seeing people consistently spending money? Ha, and would you even tell Warrior Forum members if there was?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.