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How nice of him, Right? My wife and I are both retired and the winters are looong here in Massachusetts. We try and get away someplace warm every year. Last year we spent a week in Key Largo. The year prior, we had spent all of January down south. We drove so that our dog […]

This morning’s headline confirmed what many knew for months now. Back in March of 2025, I wrote about the growing national debt, poor spending control and my optimism that DOGE might address some of these problems. You can read it here in Politics and the growing National debt. DOGE The Department of Government Efficiency. It’s

That’s scary. What? First of all, what’s a commodity. Think about gold, silver or soybeans. They’re commodities. If I’m buying a thousand pounds of soybeans, I don’t really care if I’m getting them from Fred, Barney, Betty or Jethro, they’re all about the same. Same for gold and silver, if I’m buying the metal by

Is there really a season? Probably not, but who wants a nice hot meatball sub when it’s 90˚ out? Yesterday it was 41˚. Now we’re talking. I’ve been on the quest for the greatest meatball sandwich for a while. Read my first post here. It’s a really good post so I won’t try and improve

If you’re expecting a headline that the president and congress are meeting daily in an attempt to solve the budget crisis and re-open the government for the American people, sorry. You may be disappointed. The headline that makes me optimistic is from CNBC. Why? Are we on Day 40??? Somewhere around that. And if healthcare

I touched on this in my earlier post on mixed feelings amount amazon. I spent a lovely late fall morning and early afternoon on the golf course and had some time to think some more about our current political situation. I think that explains my horrific front-nine score. I rallied on the back-nine. Interesting How?

I’ve written quite a bit about Amazon. It was one of my first stock picks and it’s been a wild ride. More on that later, but I’ve been thinking about Amazon because it captured headlines twice in the past week. While not unusual, it seemed to me to be 2 very different stories. Layoffs October

We’re beginning month 2 of the government shut down. And to remind all of us how we got here, the US congress – our representatives in the house and the senate, have failed to come up with a budget in order to run the government. So the US can’t pay some of its bills or

I’m not thrilled with the title. Luckily most of my friends don’t read the posts else they might be concerned that I’m trying to take advantage of them. The point is that AI can be extremely helpful and today we’ll take a look at some examples. Artificial Intelligence I wrote a brief post here. It

Can we really trust the people we elect to represent us? I wrote about this earlier today in Government Spending. Reading the news just now, I came upon another example where I’m somewhat stunned. Flock This is from Boston 25 news. Read the story here. Wait, What? Read that headline again. Why does the city