Mouse Trap

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Third Week of Trading 2022 The third week of trading in 2022 saw the third straight week of losses for US Markets, with the S&P, the Nasdaq, the Russell, and the Dow all down significantly. This was the worst week for the Dow since Oct 2020, the S&P and the Nasdaq posted their biggest percentage […]

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Roll The Dice

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Second Week of Trading 2022 The second week of trading in 2022 was once again dominated by the talk of interest rate hikes in the US. The Federal Reserve (FED) suggested it would take the training wheels off the economy, begin raising rates in an attempt to see if the economy can stand on its

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“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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2022 Investing

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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

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Cassandra

Cassandra’s Crossing

“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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Brain Frog

“More recently, the West began using technology to flatten the very physical evidence of natural cycles. With artificial light, we believe we defeat the sleep-wake cycle; with climate control, the seasonal cycle; with refrigeration, the agricultural cycle; and with high-tech medicine, the rest-recovery cycle.” ― William Strauss, The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy “Sometime before the year

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Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect

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

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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US Dollar

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The Inflation has Landed The media has recognized and confirmed what we have been warning about for some time, that inflation was on the way. Well it is finally here. ‘The accommodative/bailout policies of Greenspan and his protégé Bernanke as figureheads of federal intervention and involvement into financial and monetary affairs and their ability to

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