The Federal Government is like an enormous slot machine, with flashing lights, lots of payout slots, and big wheels with pictures of fruit on them.  The wheels automatically spin and stop.  Spin and stop, 24 hours a day.  Unlike conventional slot machines, this one produces a winner with every spin.  Instead of putting cash into […]

From parts of a 8/24 Wall Street Journal “Even Democrats don’t want to hear about climate change.  The words were barely mentioned at the convention, and every transcript I examined, omitted the once obligatory Biden modifier.  The reason isn’t a mystery.  Joe Biden’s policies are having not the slightest effect on climate change, and yet […]

This is an exact reprint of a column I wrote 9/10/2018 “The inflation rate in Venezuela is 67,934% a year, currently anyway.  This means that if you wanted to buy an ounce of gold, it would cost over $81 million Bolivars, which is what they use for money, at least for now.  By the time […]

Physical things, are supremely important in our lives.   Today, in the financial as in virtually every other aspect in our lives, physical anything, seems to have lost its importance.  In financial matters, does anyone have a physical share of stock?  There probably over 2 trillion shares of stock in over 6,000 companies, and after […]

This was first written and placed on this web site 2/20/2018, and it’s still appropriate! I make it a habit not to go into a Walmart.  I think it is because I have always nick named Walmarts,  “Chinamarts,” and I am old enough to remember Sam Walton’s vow to “Only sell Made in America,” and […]

First, an update on last week’s Bob and his battery situation.  He bought a new battery, and all was well, except his ‘mechanic’ said that the weak battery ruined his starter, which is a damned lie, but Bob spent $175 for a new one.  Aren’t there any honest people in the world? From Wall Street […]

I have a friend, Bob, and we go to the same church.  Bob’s probably 81, and is a retired professor of mathematics at Western State college, in Gunnison Colorado.  He knows nothing about cars, other than you turn the key, and it starts.  Similar to me, knowing that two plus two is four.  Three Sundays […]

Did you notice that Trump seemed very different than before he was shot?  He spoke for 92 minutes after his presidency was confirmed, and his old spirit was gone.  Did that bullet penetrate further than his ear?  It has to have done so, as the AR 15 is not a 22.   Saturday at Grand […]

Taken from a 2011 column I wrote, titled “Automatic.” There are certain things that one does, without even thinking…luckily!  Take breathing as an example.  If you had to concentrate on every breath, be aware of every need to increase your breathing or slow it, by the end of the day, you would be so worn […]

All three of these are financed and paid with taxpayer dollars, and all three were conceived to ‘do good’ for the citizenry, who needed all three very much, at least according to politicians.  Politicians may have had severe second thoughts about all three, but they were vote getters, and their votes were cast as ‘yes’ […]