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Over at the Atlantic Magazine, they published a great article detailing the latest bit of economic larceny that is being inflicted on the average consumer and stockholder. Written by a guy named Jerry Useem it chronicles the ways that companies used their windfall from the 2017 tax cut bill to
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Walter Schaub was the director of the United States Office of Government Ethics from 2013 -2017. Watching how Trump adminstration officials were playing fast and loose with government ethics rules, he quit because he knew that he could not do his job the way it should be done. Since then
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I have not been posting much this week because I have been watching episodes of The Man in the High Castle. Without giving away too much of the plot, Season 3 is finding the story going more to the science fiction roots that Phillip K. Dick laid for it. That’s
Continue readingI’m in Austria this weekend, enjoying a land with beautiful mountains, trains that run on time, and has good beer and excellent outdoor activities. There really is not the time to comment on the abomination of a confirmation process that occurred today and during this week. Suffice it to say,
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There is a huge hurricane bearing down on the east coast of the United States. And from President Asterisk ( as in *not elected by the majority of the voters), provided us with these words of comfort: Oh really? So riddle me this your orangeness, so how come your own
Continue readingAnd explain quite clearly why Donald Trump is a danger to the Republic and the people who follow him are the same as the Germans in the 1930’s who worked for and enabled the foundations of unspeakable crimes. Your fixation on crap lke Benghazi, e-mails and the rest of the
Continue readingYes the markets went back up today. I did my bit to help and bought stock in Match.Com. ( Because you never know when you’ll need to fire up that Tinder App). But Britain kept taking one hit after another. A labor No Confidence vote that Jeremy Corbyn lost, and additional
Continue readingWatching markets tank again, makes me want to keep beating the Brexit horse. Once again, thank you voters of the UK for giving me an opportunity to keep working well into my 60’s. That night job as an Uber driver in a couple of years will be a hell of
Continue readingThis weekend has been one of the most interesting in recent history. Watching the post mortem on the Brexit referendum on British TV has been an education to say the least. When you walk off of a cliff, there is that interval of time while you fall, wondering how bad
Continue readingI suffered the loss of a good friend last night. The United Kingdom ( May 1, 1707-June 23rd, 2016), America’s mother country, the source of US traditions and many of our values , a country that holds a special place in my heart, committed suicide last night. It was 409 years
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