Only today's GOP could f--k up the free lunch they were being handed in this years mid-terms. Inflation at a record high and they still trumped it all up. All they had to do was run candidates WHO WEREN'T FOAMING AT THE MOUTH DELUSIONAL LUNATICS, but no, they did it their way.
"If you really love a person, you won't get him or her involved in something which might hurt them."-From the 1978 autobiography of Ray Charles, Brother Ray
"If there's no borrowing and lending, you need custody and trade."-Adam Sporn, BitGo, Head of Prime Brokerage and Institutional Sales, as quoted in Axios Crypto, October 6th, 2022
"So much in life is habit. You can create a healthy habit of making good decisions if you stack small hard but good decisions on top of each other."-Kim VandeHei, Axios CEO, October 6th, 2022
According to PenAmerica, a non-profit group that advocates for freedom of expression, more than 1,600 book titles have been banned from school classrooms or libraries in the last 12 months. Very sad.
I've never understood the whole "I have to have a cigarette when I have a cup of coffee" line of thinking. I've been drinking coffee for 45 years and I've never once thought about lighting up a cigarette. Humans...the only species that knowingly kill themselves. Very weird.
Not sure how anyone can watch a full month of Halloween/Horror/Slasher films. I can do about five days worth. Unfortunately, I am married to a woman who could start watching these type movies around Labor Day.
"It is difficult for people living now, who have become accustomed to the steady exponential growth in the consumption of energy from the fossil fuels, to realize how transitory the fossil fuel epoch will eventually prove to be."-M. King Hubbert, Scientific American, 1971
"Gifted with an amazing memory and a quick intuitive judgment, he pioneered successfully in buying public-utility holding companies, a field of investing then relatively unfamiliar even to the investment bankers of his generation."-From The National GalleryOfArt#Chester Dale
Teach some kind of class...Never buy a house without a fireplace...Learn to identify the music of Chopin, Mozart, and Beethoven-From Life's Little Instruction Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"That Chester Dale would one day become a great (art) collector must have seemed unlikely... A dropout from school, he started life as a runner on the NYSE. His first collection had nothing to do with art; it was devoted to inactive and unlisted railway bonds."-Natl Art Gallery
At the end of August, there were 812K single-family units under construction, and 890K multi-family units under construction, the highest combined total ever. The 890K multi-family units under construction is the highest level since early 1974. Hard to believe Harry.
It just dawned on me that yesterday marked 50 years to the day that Paul Henderson banged in the winning goal with under a minute left to give the NHL All-Stars the game 8 and series victory in the Summit Series against the USSR. September 1972...the Cold War was at its height.
Nothing Gets By Old Larry Department: "A currency crisis in a reserve currency could well have global consequences."-Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers commenting on the troubles of the British pound, September 24th, 2022