When I was a young adult, my parents gave me some recordings of the financial celebrity Dave Ramsey. He taught me a very valuable lesson: get out of debt. So that’s what I did early in life, and it was a good move that enabled me to hang on to…
Remember Fleetwood Mac’s 1980s pop hit? Tell me lies, Tell me sweet little lies (Tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies), Oh no, no you can’t disguise. If you still think inflation is transitory, then you might also think it will soon rain enough in the Sahara to generate…
As I was scrolling through news, it occurred to me that “reading between the lines” and connecting information is an uncommon skill in today’s American society. People are too busy projecting their own turpitudes on adversaries and spewing out diktats like bullets. Or they are just quiet, because they think…
We have surpassed $30T in U.S. national debt, and that doesn’t even include all the obligations (medicare, social security, pensions, etc.). How long does it take to count to a trillion? 31,709.79 years to count to a trillion. What’s 31,709.79 years multiplied by 30.16 (the current US debt)? 956,367.2664 years…
I’m learning that you don’t always need words to describe things. If you are a person who likes to think—critically—then you will appreciate my lack of words in this post. The above clip comes from World Population Growth, Our World in Data. The massive growth in population is a direct…
Happy new year! Out with the stale old—in with the fresh new. I started out the year thinking about all the things I want and need to get done in 2022. I’m now a half century old, and it’s time to get more serious about my health. On January 1st,…
American psychologist James Hillman said, “The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state…
I was reading something today that reminded me of Sir John Bagot Glubb. After studying eleven empires from the Assyrians in 859 B.C. to the British in 1950, he outlined the seven stages of empire which always unfold in the same way, from beginning to end. These stages are… The…
Andrew Carnegie was a very smart guy. In 1901, he became the richest man in the world when J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) purchased his company, Carnegie Steel, for some $480 million. One of the traits that made him so successful was his ability to think outside of the box and to…
What is this fourth industrial revolution? I started this series with The Fourth Industrial Revolution: World Economic Forum (Part 1), where I covered the organization and drive of the World Economic Forum (WEF). If you haven’t already, I recommend reading that piece before this one. In this post, I cover…
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