May 11, 2023 Huckleberry Finn Is Not Tom Sawyer. Download this PDF here. “Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.” — Alan Greenspan When one thinks of blockchain, one quickly thinks of Bitcoin, NFTs, and cryptocurrencies. Just as so many confuse Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn with Tom
April 4, 2023 Download this PDF here. “The holy fool is a truth-teller because he is an outcast. Those not part of the existing social hierarchy are free to blurt out inconvenient truths or question things the rest of us take for granted.” – Malcolm Gladwell in Talking to Strangers
March 6, 2023 What’s a More Significant Risk, Inflation or Deflation? Download this PDF here. “Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know
February 15, 2023 What if the U.S. Government Defaults on its Debt? Download this PDF here. “It’s never paid to bet against America.” – Warren Buffett If the U.S. was to default on its debt obligations, it would cause investors to flee from U.S. Treasuries, leading to a decrease in
January 9, 2023 Patience is a form of wisdom Download this PDF here. “All models are wrong. Some models are useful.” — George E. P. Box, statistician “Patience is a form of wisdom,” notes Jon Kabat-Zinn, creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine at
Gridlock is good for reducing inflation Download this PDF here. “Permanent high inflation is everywhere and always a fiscal phenomenon” – Thomas Sargent, Nobel Prize Winner in Economics 2011 Steve Jobs once said, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So, you have
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