Merry (Golden) Christmas
Last week I confessed that I was “torn” between two competing world views: the world is in a mess so the market will continue to go down, or we are at the bottom of the mess, and the market will go up...
View ArticleThe Paradox of Thrift
Before I briefly comment on the paradox of thrift, I must announce that this is my last weekly commentary for 2008, and it marks two consecutive years of writing these weekly commentaries since the...
View Article2009 Predictions and Forecast: Baked in the Cake?
It’s time to make our predictions for 2009, so welcome to our first ever Great Ubiquitous Extra Special Story of 2009, code-named GUESS. Yes, it’s a guess, since none of us knew what would happen in...
View ArticleFirst Half of 2009 Over: How Did we Do?
Happy Independence Day to all of my American readers. (For you trivia buffs, in the last month this site has had readers from 59 countries. 45% are from Canada, 37% from the USA, 2% from the UK, and...
View ArticleDavid Letterman, the Chicago Olympics, and Your Predictions
Unless your name is David Letterman, or you were a member of the Chicago Olympic bid, or the President of the United States who staked his reputation not on fixing our problems but instead getting the...
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