“I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.”—John 11:25 (ESV) in honor of Jesus on this Easter Sunday A Curious Experiment A few weeks ago, my son slipped me a chapter from his book about teaming up with AI to…
“A lie keeps growing and growing until it’s as plain as the nose on your face.” —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago We are living through a historical anomaly. Unless we change course, future generations will look back on this period as Peak AI (Peak Asinine Intelligence), where one nation’s debt-backed…
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” —Oscar Wilde Last week, I made a call that one of Trump’s Executive Orders was the turning point. A mandate for the production of minerals, uranium, copper, potash, gold, and any other elements, compounds and materials determined by the Chair of the…
“When confidence goes, the end is very near. It always comes faster than anyone expects and it always seems to be unexpected.” —Bernard of Chartres, 12th-century philosopher and thinker Working in Ecuador from 1996 to 1998, I figured out that currency and money weren’t the same things. It was taking…
If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no need for tinkers. —Unknown So I’m binge watching The Gilded Age, a great show on HBO Max. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, it refers to the economic boom between 1865 (end of the Civil War) and the turn…
If you pass through life without an opponent, no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you. —Seneca It’s Saturday morning, and I’ve just had a glass of fresh squeezed citrus juice mixed with 1/2 teaspoon of Real Salt and 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar….
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth.” —Albert Bartlett, a physicist On Friday, I drove an hour north to pick up my boys from college for winter break. When I arrived, they were still packing. Amazed by how much stuff they were bringing…
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford Banks and governments are shrouded in mystery. Historically, they have a propensity for secrecy, cover-ups, and credit games that drive economic booms and busts. The period that most…
“It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.” —Erica Jong There’s a lot of news about Trump vs. the Deep State. Last week, the following articles posted: There Really Is a Deep State (the Atlantic), Trump’s ‘Deep State’…
There are so many things happening right now, I don’t know how much I’ll be able to cover in this post, but let’s begin with the most fundamental principle in international law: Pacta Sunt Servanda. It’s Latin for “agreements must be kept,” which is one of the oldest moral and…
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