My Comments: With recent testimony from James Comey, the narrative we’ve been glued to for the past many months takes a new turn. Please understand that once elected, I wanted 45 to succeed. I’m not happy with all the talk of impeachment. It’s not in my best interest as a citizen of these United States …
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A few more Laws from Murphy
A reminder: Murphy’s Law states that if anything can go wrong, it will. So here are a few more: Cohen's Law: What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts, not the facts themselves. Manly's Maxim: Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. Murphy's Corollary: …
Donald Trump’s Big Problem
My Comments: To my Trump supporting friends, this is not a rant against our president. Governments work, or don't work, on vastly different rule sets than does private enterprise. Government is a public enterprise and the outcomes by their very nature will be markedly different. His skills as a businessman don't necessarily translate effectively to …
Donald Trump Is Not Having Fun
My Comments: Please understand I am not interested in throwing gasoline on an existing fire. I am interested in understanding how we got to where we are and how we might influence the future for the betterment of EVERYONE OF US. Yes, I did vote for Hillary and did not vote for DT. I didn’t …
We used to have six more letters in the English alphabet
My Comments: WHAT THE ETH? By Hannah Poindexter Along quaint New England streets, you’ll probably spot a sign or two declaring itself “Ye Olde Tavern” or “Ye Old Soda Shoppe.” But before you adopt a British accent and order a pint of ale inside, there’s a bit of history you should know. Phrases like ye …
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The Lessons To Be Learned From Old Maps
My Comments: I was drawn to this article by the title: The History of Britain in 11 Wacky Maps. (I see only 8 maps…?) As an anglophile, with 70 plus years of experience with maps of England, I was intrigued. I’ll not try to replicate all the text and the images in this post. Instead …
How can Britain exit the EU? As a nation state Britain doesn’t really exist
My Comments: the first six years of my life were spent in England. Until I was probably fifteen I had no notion there was anything other than England when it came to where my aunts and uncles and cousins lived. During those fifteen years, I lived also in France, in India and here in the …
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The Makings of a Caliphate
My Comments: As a lifelong Democrat, I’m very aware that if a million more people in this country had better jobs and were feeling good about their financial future, Hillary Clinton would probably be taking the oath of office later this month. But they didn't so a different force will be running the asylum for …
Income Inequality Is Off The Charts
My Comments: The greatest economic threats to the health and welfare of the world I will leave to my grandchildren will arise from the disparity between the haves and the have-nots. One side of this argument arises from the contempt that was pervasive across the planet toward a political movement driven by what came to …
Welcome to the Exponential Age
18 years ago, the Eastman Kodak company sold 85% of all photo paper on the planet and employed 86,200 people, 46,300 of them in the US. By 2015, they employed 6,500 people and surrendered what was left of the photo paper business so they could emerge from bankruptcy. You may recall digital cameras were invented …
Helping Define Your Financial Future 