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Sunday Coffee Thoughts

Extracting the best versions of ourselves is work.

    Feast, Famine & Policy

    The crucial question is: what is happening to consumer spending as a whole? Are auto sales symptomatic of consumer behavior, or will they be offset by reduced expenditures in other areas? We shall only know the answer when it is too late.

      China and Washington’s Monetary/Fiscal Stand Off

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

        Sunday Coffee Thoughts

        In one 12-hour period last week, a dear friend, aged 97, passed from this world and a different dear friend became a grandmother to a cherubic girl.

          Reading the Market Action

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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

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                Trump, Geopolitics, Money

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                  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.