My Comments: If I had to personally make definitive decisons about the US role in the middle east, I have absolutely no idea what would be in our best interest. That’s why they don’t pay ME the big bucks. But history has made us the world’s only policeman. Since I have no idea about what …
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The Importance of Long Term Care
My Comments: As always, this is a difficult conversation for many of us. But that won’t make the issue go away. That only happens when you ultimately leave the building. I encourage everyone to take a few minutes to watch two short videos. The first one is accessed by clicking on the image above. It …
“Utter insanity and stupidity.”
My Comments: I probably live in a bubble. I say this as much of what I allow to cross my desk daily already conforms to what I believe and therefore serves to confirm my present thinking. It happens to most of us; I had an exchange with someone the other day who tried to persuade …
Dog Days of the U.S. Expansion
My Comments: How is your money growing? Is it growing? Do you care? Are you prepared for pain when it stops growing and shrinks, perhaps dramatically? As a professional in this world, I’ve long since given up worrying about this. All anyone can do is pay attention, or pay someone to pay attention for you. …
Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs
My Comments: To some extent, this is an extension of the post I had last week about the riots in Baltimore. I’m convinced they happened more for economic reasons than for racial reasons. I accept both are present, but instead of focusing on race relations to effect a solution going forward, the emphasis should be …
Hubble and the Cosmos
My Thoughts: I’ve long been fascinated by visions of the cosmos, how it came to be, what’s out there, and reasons that might explain why we’re here. It’s mind boggling and understandable how as society evolved, faith in an unseen hand at work made it possible to grasp the unthinkable. Whatever the case, technology today …
An Invocation to Remember
My Comments: I'm rarely asked to offer an invocation at any function I attend. There are always others better suited to the task than I. But if I were to be asked, I'd like to think that I could do as well as Mary Maxwell. She was asked to offer the invocation at an event …
Death Is Not a Treatment Failure
My Comments: Many years ago a physician friend and fellow golfer told me that when you go to a doctor for a routine physical, it’s his or her job to find something wrong with you. If you don’t want to find that something IS wrong with you, then don’t go. But as the years pass …
Sine of the Times
My Comments: Many of you have read my comments about interest rates lately. (Yesterday!) For many, many months, the Fed has used its powers to keep them low to encourage economic growth. Now that growth is again endemic, sooner rather than later, pressures will exist to cause interest rates to increase. The chart at the …
Get Ready For The Biggest Margin Call In History
My Comments: Like a broken clock that is right twice every 24 hours, I’ve been talking about the probability of us having a severe market correction for the past 12 months or more. It’s obviously not happened yet. But every time I turn around, there are new observations from people who understand this better than …
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