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It’s quite interesting see how the government’s increasingly tight grip on the economy (and, I daresay, their increasingly loose grip on the definition of “recession”) has put these things on the pathway to the dodo bird. The red zones mark periods of recession, which in the mid-19th century could last years.
There was no such thing as an ETF in 1992. Now, there are more ETFs than there are stocks. We’ve simply learned, as a society, to just bundle things together in all kinds of financially-engineered contraptions and now even have to worry about innovation and IPOs.
On this Labor Day, a time normally reserved the think fondly back on all the workplace slowdowns, stoppages, wildcat strikes, and questionable Teamster leadership murders of the past, I would instead like to focus our attention on a hodgepodge of things that are just generally pissing me off. What would you rather do on this Monday: enjoy a beer and a hot dog or read about me bitching?
That’s what I thought.
This abomination has to stop. Everyone’s doing it, and I’d sincerely wish flipping the bird had caught the public’s imagination as opposed to this nausea-inducing, faux-sincere, cutesy travesty. It’s shallow, it’s pointless, and it devalues anything sincere acts of affection.
