“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.” Ayn Rand “To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”― Anthony Burgess Here at the Impartial […]
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First Week of Trading 2022 We are one week into the new trading year of 2022. The game is heating up for investors as the tailwinds of 2020-2021 begin to turn into headwinds in 2022. The noise coming from central banks, in particular, the US Federal Reserve about tapering QE and raising interest rates, the
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses
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Recent events reminded me of what my colleague sent to me on 22 March 2020: ‘If humans ate the bat that gave us the Wuhan Virus, what did the bat eat? Perhaps the bat ate a butterfly… The “butterfly effect” is an idea, commonly used in “chaos theory”. It shows that a small change… like a “butterfly
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Joe Biden’s Amnesia… Below are the comments from President Biden while responding to the senseless Jonathan Lemire from the Associated Press. (You can click the link below for reference) “Let’s get this straight. How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly
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What Happens Next Economists describe inflation as “too many dollars chasing too few goods.” When you have too many dollars chasing the same thing, the chase will drive the price up. Things will become more expensive. If you look below, you will notice the stock market chart from the end of World War 2 1945
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‘Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences’ – Robert Louis Stevenson Exit stage denial & enter stage anger. We are exiting the denial stage and entering the stage of anger as detailed in Elizabeth Kuubler Ross’s Paradigm of Loss Model in relation to the Covid 19 Pandemic and ensuing economic crisis.
This piece was originally written in March 2013 but is even more relevant now as we enter into uncertain times in 2020. “If I have seen further it, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” Isaac Newton “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from
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