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The Future’s So Bright

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I woke up today filled with probably unwarranted optimism.

This happens so very rarely that Ive come to believe its a gift of sorts.  And perhaps more.  You see, Ive always had the embarrassing gift of sensing the future. Im not laying claim to any paranormal ability with this, note. Its just if you spend your evenings going over the news everywhere, and if your rational self is prone to pessimism (being rational and the nature of the world being what it is) at some point your subconscious...

The Chinese Matter – by BGE

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*My apologies to BGE for getting this up so late. Its been an odd morning. Its still a very important thing to get out there. SAH*

The Chinese Matter by BGE

In November 1971, not long after the Nixon administration ended the dollars convertibility into gold, then Treasury secretary John Connally told his counterparts during a G10 meeting that the dollar is our currency, but your problem.   Despite the Bretton Woods era being long gone, this remains true today.  The US Dollar is the worlds...

The Largest Self Inflicted Wound In History

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As we start hearing reports of entire dairy herds, refined for generations being sold for hamburger, of entire herds of pigs being slaughtered and buried, and as our chickens are not coming home at all but being destroyed at the peep stage, all because of strangle points in distribution, it is time to ask: Has any other nation ever done this to itself in history?  And has any nation done this to itself without an open civil war.

And I cant imagine any other country except those who are...

Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike and Book Promo

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*Note these are books sent to us by readers/frequenters of this blog.  Our bringing them to your attention does not imply that weve read them and/or endorse them, unless we specifically say so.  As with all such purchases, we recommend you download a sample and make sure its to your taste.  If you wish to send us books for next weeks promo, please email to bookpimping at outlook dot com. If you feel a need to re-promo the same book do so no more than once every six months (unless...

Witch’s Daughter – Installment 5

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*For the previous chapters, please go here. These are posted first draft, as the brain dictates to the fingers which are remarkably stupid. Eventually it will be cleaned up and fixed just before page is made secret/taken down and the book is published. At that time I will take lists of typos or volunteers to proof read. For now, its written in a hurry, usually an hour before it goes up. And, let me remind you, its free SAH*

Shadow (continued)

Albinia was not stupid, or at least no more...

Negative Oil – by BGE

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All sorts of impossible things happen all the damn time on Wall Street.  Negative interest rates? Pay for the privilege of lending money, crazy talk.   Well, right now you would pay Germany 0.436% per year for the privilege of lending them money for ten years.  Theres a good reason for this, but it seems mad.  On Monday, 20 April 2020 the price of oil, or to be accurate May 2020 WTI, went negative.  At one point, you would be paid $38 to take a barrel of oil off a...

Healthcare Charlie Foxtrot by Scarlett Doc

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Since social distancing interventions have been implemented to limit the spread of COVID-19, many industries have faced significant changes in the way they function.  Some businesses have been temporarily shuttered.  Others continue to function with work-from-home initiatives.  Still others remain open with significant operational changes.  While these changes have been implemented with the goal of flattening the curve to limit impacts of the virus...

The Paths Ahead – The Boot

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I consider this a very unlikely scenario, but not impossible. What is the way back from, say, Venezuela?  Do they even remember how to be free?
A subtitle of this would be Teach your children well. If we we go down for the long count, we can only hope that our grand kids or great grand kids will fight where we didnt and bring back America.

Something like this was the deep background of the DST world, before the scientific glam. Now, take heart, since I first wrote that under Clinton.  And we...

The Paths Ahead – Cry Havoc

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Before I begin, I want to make clear you guys understand I consider this one and the next one the most unlikely scenarios.  Even more so than pie in the sky.  And that this one is almost impossible to write, because the possibilities for where do we go next are endless.  This one is not impossible, though.

I also want to point out, as always, that what we see is a combination of all of them, and varying WIDELY among states.

This one took me a long time to think through, so another thing I...

The Paths Ahead – It Could Be Worse

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Im continuing the four paths leading forward from where we are now.

Four is a gross oversimplification, of course, as there are probably hundreds, and each of these will partake a bit of the others.

And because the usual suspects will think I am sketching my idea of Utopia, let me point out my idea of Utopia is Pie in the Sky where Marxism is defeated without blood and the future gives freedom to every weirdo (I are one) and oddling without fear. And where the boundaries of humanitys hope...