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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

It’s almost November. It’s sunny and 41 degrees and looks like we’ll hit the mid 50’s this afternoon. Pretty nice for New England. The government shut down continues. This is significant and unfortunate on so many levels, but that’s all I have to say on that today. Crazy shit is going on. I have a

I’ve written quite a bit about government spending. It started with Is Debt a Problem? I took a look at the (then) $34 trillion debt. This is an unfathomable number so I tried to put it in a context that I could understand. Read the post, it’s fun. I updated this a year or so

Monday October 20, 2025. I played golf yesterday. Sunny and 70. Pretty amazing for this time of year. Government Shut Down Ho Hum. The government shut down enters week 3. I posted earlier, Who Cares? And that was on day 6. Seems like a lifetime ago. It’s overwhelming and in the end, what can we

Just a quick one today, but it’s been on my mind with all the craziness in the news lately. I expect that many readers, like me, are frustrated with the stalemate in our country today. We are well into the US Government shutdown with no end in sight. Take any issue, and there is a