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that blimp is history now..
About a year ago I wrote this entry, indicating it was time to sell stocks.Since then, perceptions have shifted dramatically, awareness of difficulties has shot up, and instead of greed, the market (and the people) have a lot more fear in their psyche. The shift from greed to fear is what moves the stock market down. We've done a lot of that shift ( Read more... ) -
a rose is a rose
(This entry is a (potentially offensive?) distraction from the fears and crisis about economic crap and malfeasance in washington and wall street. Just two days ago I watched (for the umpteenth time) this movie, now 70 years old almost, and it makes one cry to think too hard on it. So how about the following, instead?)
I saw Tommie Smith and John ( Read more... ) -
black or pink?
I watch very little news. Almost all of it is depressing, and most of it is irrelevant to my life ( Read more... ) -
headless horseman
I think there must be some Ohio law which says that a motorcyclist is not allowed to wear a helmet in warm weather.
I don't think I have seen more than two helmets all summer, and I am sure I have seen at least 30 motorcyclists out driving in that time. -
forever...
USPS markets a stamp as the Forever stamp. It will serve to mail one first class postage, no matter what the price of that stamp is at any future date.
If you have the money, is there any good reason not to buy this in bulk, even stockpiling it, perhaps even investing in cases of it, as part of an inflation hedge? -
rolling over
Seems like I have been reading/thinking a great deal the last few months about social injustice. In accord with that, I recently read the book 'Oil!', by Upton Sinclair. It was a worthwhile read, and Sinclair uses words with more skill than most of his peers. Perhaps you were forced to read 'the Jungle' when you were in school, that is his most ( Read more... ) -
the best 7stud player you never heard of....
....won the $10,000 Stud championship at the wsop yesterday.
Eric Brooks and I first met in 1982 standing in the Dome Mines trading pit. We each were working our positions up to the (then) limit, buying a spread that still stands in my mind as one of the best I'd ever done. (That's a different story.) We both traded on the PHLX for some years, ( Read more... ) -
it is usually Them
I'm posting this Senate committee testimony without comment.
It is a surprisingly quick read.
Makes me think of Daniel Drew or Jim Fisk (or Jim Rogers, for that matter).
Commodity prices flying... -
you've got fifty million of 'em....
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own private Idaho
In the last century the Western world has invented numerous labor saving devices. Your home is probably filled with them. But aside from saving labor, these machines have other effects. One very notable effect is the way they allow the individual to withdraw into a more private life, less community needed. The refrigerator allows you to store food ( Read more... )