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This is going to be perhaps the shortest post I’ve ever done, but it will link to one of the longest posts you will ever read: Dave Collum’s 2019 year in review. I have been gobbling it up all day, and it’s like catnip. I’m up to page 90 of 150 pages (I’m not counting the footnotes). I highly recommend it, and you can get the entire PDF file here.
Well, folks, I’d say things look dead ahead. There is absolutely nothing going on with the economic calendar except for the continuous flood of Powell-Bux from QE4. Trade accordingly!
When I was a young lad, I had the privilege of going out to Bob’s Big Boy twice a year for a sundae. Once at the start of the school year, and once at the end of the school year. It was my mom’s treat for me, and I suppose gave her an opportunity to talk to me about what I was looking forward to in the new school year or, as the case may be, what I liked about the year that had just finished. It is among my favorite childhood memories.
We weren’t poor, but we certainly didn’t eat out much. Almost all of our meals – – nearly 100% – – were home-cooked, and quite good. Of course, as a child, passing by the brightly-lit fast food joints was a little intoxicating to me, since the allure of free little toys and ostensibly delicious food was made plain to me by the commercials I saw.
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