Look at the chart below. I took this from Dave Hay’s substack, some of which is behind a paywall. In what must be one of the most futile and poorly timed gestures towards climate change political correctness, Germany’s last nuclear reactor seems to have been shut down last year. I’ve heard there are noises being
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David Kotok is a very bright man. I know David because for some reason I started communicating with him and found myself invited to Camp Kotok, which I regret I’m not going to this summer. Anyway, he just posted this three minute video on you tube. Please watch it.
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This was most recently quoted by John Hussman in his article “Equilibrium and the Dentist in Poughkeepsie.” I highly recommend his occasional articles. No charge to sign up. Graham and Dodd were the authors of Security Analysis, the still in print bible of value investing. A Warren Buffet favorite. “Strictly speaking, there can be no
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This interactive chart uses data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and analyzed by Gemini (irony noted) to shows the potential AI impact according to the scale on the left side of the chart. The size of each boxes represent the number of jobs compared to all other job categories. The color is the
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The comparative military strengths of the U. S. and Iran was never an issue. The U.S. knew it could blow more stuff up. But that hasn’t been enough to “win” if by win you mean getting a new regime in Iran willing to agree to all of the U.S.’s demands. Iran turned out not to
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Published on December 13, 2024 Suzanne Maloney’s explanation is the most concise and clearest explanation of how our relationship with Iran evolved I’ve ever seen. The title is “The Middle East’s Dangerous New Normal: Iran, Israel, and the Delicate Balance of Disorder.” Here’s the link. If you read this, you’ll understand more than about 98%
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus, a Roman historian and politician, was born around 56 A.D. In his book Annals, he described some economic dislocation that occurred in Rome around 33 AD. Read these two paragraphs slowly. Anything ring a bell? Sound at all familiar? It’s always, always, always the same when too much debt accumulates. Eventually, the
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