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Eamus Catuli! (opens the original)
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Baseball playoffs start today. I am a lifelong Cubs fan. 1969…..Hey Hey, Holy Mackeral, no doubt about it….until it ended.1984 hurt more. 2003 hurt a lot. That’s why 2016 was just so great.Since 2016, though, the Cubs haven’t been a huge threat. Milwaukee has had their number. This year, the Cubs have struggled through injuries, and though starting out very hot, they were around .500 for the rest of the year.Bregman getting hit by a foul ball in the on-deck circle made all of our hearts sink. Br
The Fiscal Shell Game (opens the original)
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Scenes From Northern Minnesota Fall (opens the original)
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Why Isn’t The Market Tanking? (opens the original)
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Over the past several days, I have been chatting with friends from both the right and left sides of the political aisle. Like me, they have been involved in markets for their entire careers. We are all 60+ now and started when we were 21. We have seen a lot in our lives.The rule of thumb is that when inflation goes up and interest rates go up, stocks go down.That’s not happening, and no one can figure it out. I have been pretty busy up at my lake place the past couple of months, so I haven’t had
No Risk No Progress Nevada Democrats Are Selling Fear (opens the original)
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Nevada Democrats are in the fear business. They are so afraid of failure that they will settle for no progress at all. You cannot make society better without the possibility of failure.If they had been around when Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were remaking the world, they would have regulated both men out of business to protect the buggy-whip makers and the lamplighters.The candidates are different. The song is the same. This cycle, the song is about data centers.Aaron Ford built the gravy train
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