An Unsurprising Correlate!
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How About Now?
Well, gang, Sunday futures are open, and equities are generally up about six-tenths of a percent as of this writing. We’ve got a gap up, and I’ve gone ahead and dispensed with the horizontal “jump rope” since I’m quite weary of writing about the sinewave that’s been going on for the past two weeks. The real question now is simple: this time, will the bulls finally get their act together enough to launch up to meaningful resistance, instead of dicking around in the 5725 zone and going nowhere.
The Big Print
Just to come right to the point, you should buy the new book The Big Print. It’s outstanding, and the country would be better off if every single citizen read and understood it. That’ll never happen, of course, but one can always dream. Anyway, let me back up a bit.
A couple of weeks ago, when I was on Amazon, The Big Print was presented to me as a recommended purchase. I was intrigued by the title, and after reading a brief summary (and seeing the good reviews), I decided to buy it. It arrived a couple of days later, and once I started reading it, I had trouble putting it down.
It didn’t start off great, because when I read the Foreword to the book, it was made plain to me that this would be a celebration of Bitcoin and its opportunity to save us all. I had already purchased and read enough Bitcoin books to not want to endure another sermon, but I decided to press on, and I’m glad I did.
(more…)A Predictable Ending
Perhaps you’ve heard of the new Snow White movie, which is perhaps one of the final utterly woke productions from Hollywood. They’ve been trying to get this thing done for literally years, and you knew it was going to be bad when, early in the production, Disney piously declared, “To avoid reinforcing stereotypes from the original animated film, we are taking a different approach with these seven characters and have been consulting with members of the dwarfism community.”
Because – ya know – – dwarfs. To say nothing of the fact the name Snow White is supposed to refer to her snow-white skin, so naturally they hired an actress from Colombia to play the part.
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