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Good News! Double Lancet Windows (A Wedding Update)

Soaring heights, emphasized by tall narrow windows dematerialize stone walls and draw visitors to the story told in the stained glass. The fusion of liturgy and architecture found its first expression at the Basilica of St. Denis, consecrated in 1144.

Good News! The Beauty of Bull & Bear Markets

"Whump!" In the distance, the deep but discernible sound of the shell exiting the four foot diameter mortar barrel reverberates under the dark sky. Almost immediately, a red trail like a meteor streaks into the smokey sky. Spectators hush, eyes

Good News! Protecting Investments Across Centuries

Herod the Great had a vision. A port twice the size of Athen's - with mighty and massive seawalls rising out of the deep Mediterranean water on the coast of Judea. He would reshape not only the land - but

Good News! Slow Down to go Fast!

Supersonic flight involves a great irony - in order to go faster, engineers have to slow down the air entering the engines. Counter-intuitive right? Take my favourite plane of all time, the venerable SR-71 Blackbird.

Good News! Winston’s Dogs

Photo: Life Magazine On June 19th, 1940, Paris surrendered to the advancing Germans. The City of Lights dimmed under Nazi occupation. The news of France’s armistice with Germany rocked Britons. The long feared German invasion now seemed imminent. The survival

Good News! What Moby Dick Can Teach Investors About the Green Energy Transition

Hermann Melville's Moby Dick which was published in 1851 - five years after the peak of the US Whaling Industry and eight years before the first oil well in America was drilled - immortalized the whaling industry. Can you believe

Good News! Why Math Explains Physics but Not the Economy

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eugene Wigner understood the complexities of math but was baffled by its 'unreasonable' effectiveness in explaining natural phenomena like motion and electricity. Why would calculus and geometry, created solely in the human mind, so effectively explain the

Good News! Investment Lessons from Il Gigante

Il Gigante, twice discarded due to its flaws and awkward shape, lay like a washed up carcass on a beach - a 19 meter Carrara marble whale. Quarried in 1464, and transported to Florence, Il Gigante (the Giant), stymied the

Good News! What Investors Can Learn from Notre Dame’s Restoration

Notre Dame on fire (image courtesy of FranceToday.com) Notre Dame on Fire — And the Lessons Begin The Queen of Cathedrals has lessons for investors today. She has stood on an island in the Seine largely completed since 1260. Desecrated

Good News! How Investors Can Navigate Uncertainty Like Central Bankers Should

The combination of clear mountain air and expansive night skies in Wyoming's Jackson Hole may be responsible for the clearest account of Central Banking in recent memory. Chairman Powell was unusually forthright when he admitted that the Federal Reserve was,

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