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If you are like me, I’m tired of the endless parade of talking heads on TV debating what we should do to succeed in these challenging times. Watching the ping-pong blame game and absorbing so many predictions of doom and gloom can take a toll on you. From my earliest days, I’ve always thought the …
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A guy is driving around the back woods of Montana and he sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house: 'Talking Dog For Sale '. He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog is in the backyard. The guy goes into the backyard and sees a nice …
Walk with me by the water... Damn... I forgot the words.
As I analyze the many blogs and articles that stream across my inbox talking about the current financial issues, one clear takeaway is that there are political crises and there are financial crises. Yes, there is overlap and in the short term great uncertainty as they both operate in tandem. But increasingly, I think what …
Maybe I spoke too soon about the world coming to an end. Well, not really, since it's not, but now that the folks in DC have come up with something, the traders have decided to add a little spice. Its as though the adults have gone to the beach and left the kids in charge. …
Memo to: Everyone From: Tony Since we’ve established that the world is not coming to an end as a result of looney tunes in Washington, DC and that there is now a template for helping you make some money with your investments, it’s time for us to play a little golf, a little tennis, and …
Anyone tempted to yearn for a simpler time must reckon with a few undeniable unpleasantries of life before modern technology: abscessed teeth, chamber pots, the bubonic plague—and a lack of air conditioning in late July. As temperatures rise into the triple digits across the eastern United States, it's worth remembering how we arrived at the …
Recently, a friend sent me a PowerPoint slide show with about four dozen photographs of early Florida life. I've put them in a web presentation and share them with you here. Click the following link. Early Florida...
MURPHY'S LAW: If anything can go wrong, it will. MURPHY’S CORROLARY #1: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. MURPHY’S CORROLARY #2: It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. QUANTISIZED REVISION OF MURHPH’S LAW: Everything goes wrong all at once. O'TOOLE’S COMMENTARY: Murphy was an optimist.
I first arrived in the US in 1950, arriving in New York on June 27th, aboard the RMS Coronia. I know this since I Googled my mothers' name and up popped the passenger manifest from Cunard White Star lines with our names on it! We travelled from New York to Chicago on the Twentieth Century …
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