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Set the Children Free
There are things that are so obvious they shouldn’t warrant discussion…but they do. For there are blockheads out there whose brains are so soft they don’t know obvious from Adam’s off ox. Experience tells us that common sense is remarkably … Continue reading
2012: Predictions, Prognostications, and Prophecies
Before we turn the page to 2012 we must take a look back at the year that just passed so we can extract context for the year to come. Looking at where the stock market began and ended in 2011, … Continue reading
There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
By all accounts the sky was falling on December 5, 2008. Several months before, credit market liquidity had glazed over like cold winter molasses and, after over 150-years of business, Lehman Brothers had ignominiously vanished from the face of the … Continue reading
Teach a Man to Fish
Food is one of life’s vital essentials. Procuring enough food to meet one’s daily needs is a rudimentary survival requirement. So, too, people’s ability to sustain themselves is essential to a functioning economy. Hunger, for sure, is a great motivator. … Continue reading