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Sunday Coffee Thoughts

These are the darkest days of the year in North America, a reminder we live within cycles—seasonal, life stage, economic, historical; it is all, always in motion.

    What I’m Seeing

    THIS IS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. INVESTING IS RISKY AND OFTEN PAINFUL. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.

      Trump, Geopolitics, Money

      THIS IS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. INVESTING IS RISKY AND OFTEN PAINFUL. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.

        Trump 2.0

        Everything that was considered good and beautiful in the age of the pyramids was held to be just as excellent a thousand years later.

          Sunday Coffee Thoughts

          Looking back, either I made most everything too complicated, or distilling a process to the essentials takes time.

            Financial IED

            “What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”

              Sunday Coffee Thoughts

              On the calm of a fall Sunday, the nerves of the past week and the coming week seem disproportionate.

                Beyond Simple Slogans

                The cost disease asserts that the costs of health care, education, the live performing arts, and a number of other economic activities known as the “personal services” are condemned to rise at a rate significantly greater than the economy’s rate of inflation, as indeed they have…

                  Sunday Coffee Thoughts

                  The effect follows the cause, which becomes the next cause.

                    Now What?

                    “FDR 16 years — almost 16 years — he was four terms. I don’t know, are going to be considered three term? Or two-term?”