I read a wild book this weekend…Who Really Owns Your Gold by William Garner (fourth edition). It was published in 2016 and has some intriguing facts about the gold market’s history, and history in general. No doubt, it’s a page-turner and made me think…deeply…about many things. I have no relationship…
My next dog will likely be a Dogo Argentino. Half dog and half lion, this breed is extremely loyal and courageous. When it attacks, its aim is to kill and it won’t stop until it does. It feels no pain and never retreats out of fear. It will keep attacking…
To a certain group of people, Climate Crisis is a “fact” supported by The Science. It calls for our benevolent superman government to save us from our filthy sinful dependency on fossil fuels, while liberating us from supervillain Lex Luthor (wicked capitalism and crooked Putin). For this we must express…
Remember Fleetwood Mac’s 1980s pop hit? Tell me lies, Tell me sweet little lies (Tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies), Oh no, no you can’t disguise. If you still think inflation is transitory, then you might also think it will soon rain enough in the Sahara to generate…
As I was scrolling through news, it occurred to me that “reading between the lines” and connecting information is an uncommon skill in today’s American society. People are too busy projecting their own turpitudes on adversaries and spewing out diktats like bullets. Or they are just quiet, because they think…
Society is in a quandary, a sort-of narrative-driven hypnosis. Remember how the pandemic replaced the trade war with China? Have you heard about that trade war or agreement in a while? Probably not, but the U.S. trade deficit is now greater than ever. Today, all eyes are on the Russo-Ukrainian…
Happy new year! Out with the stale old—in with the fresh new. I started out the year thinking about all the things I want and need to get done in 2022. I’m now a half century old, and it’s time to get more serious about my health. On January 1st,…
American psychologist James Hillman said, “The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state…
I was reading something today that reminded me of Sir John Bagot Glubb. After studying eleven empires from the Assyrians in 859 B.C. to the British in 1950, he outlined the seven stages of empire which always unfold in the same way, from beginning to end. These stages are… The…
Andrew Carnegie was a very smart guy. In 1901, he became the richest man in the world when J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) purchased his company, Carnegie Steel, for some $480 million. One of the traits that made him so successful was his ability to think outside of the box and to…
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