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The 1% Folks
The 1% Folks THE ONE PERCENTERS. 99% of people born between 1929 and 1946 (GLOBALLY) are now dead. If you were born in this time span, your ages range between 77 and...
Read MoreWhistling Past the Graveyard
Oft in the lone churchyard at night I’ve seen, By glimpse of moon-shine, Chequering through...
Read MoreReading List 2023
There was a time, long past when I could read some Arabic, speak it better. I lived in KSA, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for three years and in Turkey for one. Travelled extensively throughout the Moslem world. North Africa. The Levant....
Read MoreBoth Sides Now
Joni Mitchell penned this ‘70s song that is of some interest today. ‘Both sides’ is an old newspaper process. Give the readers both sides of a story. As if there...
Read MoreOctober Farmer’s Almanac
There is a pause after the autumnal equinox when the nights are warm and limbs along meadow edges bend low with fruit. Among the first to ripen are Concord grapes, one of the most widely planted and oldest varietal grapes in North...
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Farmer’s Almanac September ‘23
A little stir among the clouds before they rend asunder A little rocking of the trees and then comes the thunder...
Read More‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet…’
Juliet is in love with a handsome young man - who happens to be the oldest son of her father’s sworn enemy. Nice plot touch for the late 1500s. Romantic. Yet beneath the...
Read MoreInflation, Interest Rates and Dividends, oh my!
Let’s try to keep this simple. We know inflation. It affects us each time we spend money...
Read MoreApril is the Cruelest Month
At least according to T S Eliot. In his epic 1921 poem The Waste Land, he reflects on the horrors of the recent global war. Death and suffering are all that the spring brings us,...
Read MoreAn Upcoming Debate on the Debt
This will be a longer than usual story. It is complicated, chaotic and complex. Yet I view this story as the most important financial event of 2023. Many others agree.I’d like to bring you up to speed on the tale unfolding in...
Read MoreHuman Progress
If you click on the picture above, you will see a most interesting video-graph of human progress. Human Progress is real, historical, sustainable and ever more complex. Graphs are ‘representations’ of factual...
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