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A Life on the Lake

Posted on October 25, 2019 by admin

(So I’ve not been writing much at all, but has this one stashed away and decided to post it just to keep engaged. It means something to me, though I’m not overly proud of it to be honest.) Sam pumped … Continue reading →

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A Still Weary Look at the Stock Market

Posted on July 31, 2019 by admin

One of the benefits of retiring from observing the markets is you get to retire from observing the markets! Hence, my decidedly lack of such contributions to this blog. Anyway, those of you who are in contact with me will … Continue reading →

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A Winter’s Walk

Posted on May 14, 2019 by admin

It was just the two of them, trudging along for what felt like an eternity. They walked that first night and hid the next day. At some point they’d given up on trying to hide; there was no one to … Continue reading →

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All Those Jews!

Posted on March 11, 2019 by admin

I came across an article about how many Jews there are in the world today. Take a guess. It’s about 14.7 million, according to Haaretz. You can expand that to as much as many as 17 million if you include … Continue reading →

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Savings at the Pump? Yesteryear’s News

Posted on February 6, 2019 by admin

(This appeared on WealthManagement.com, a division of my old firm Informa.) Savings at the Pump? Yesteryear’s News There was a time when lower energy prices were considered a boon to the economy. Not anymore. David Ader | Feb 04, 2019 There was … Continue reading →

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The U.S. Shouldn’t Get Too Creative With Debt Sales

Posted on February 5, 2019 by admin

Once again the kind editors at Bloomberg reached out asking my thoughts on Treasury thinking-out-of-the-box when it comes to new sorts of issues to deal with the deficit. Below is what I wrote and they published. Note the conclusion; in … Continue reading →

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A Different Market Faces a Different Fed

Posted on January 29, 2019 by admin

(This column appeared in WealthManagement.com on Jan 28, goo.gl/FqhRD2) Odds are that with rates in general low, an expanding Fed balance sheet will have to come into play in a much bigger way in the next downturn, and the Fed … Continue reading →

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Last Remains

Posted on January 23, 2019 by admin

Deano bent over the camping gear in the attic, brushing away the cobwebs and dried out flies, careful not to lift his head to the sloped roof with nails sticking down through any number of the shingles that had been … Continue reading →

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Back to the Front

Posted on January 21, 2019 by admin

They’d been at it all day. Walking, swinging the detector, alternating between who would yell ‘here’ and who would dig. The yells came on fast and furious in the first couple of hours. As the day wore, the yells turned … Continue reading →

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Fish On! Phone Off!

Posted on January 18, 2019 by admin

“Fish on!” His rod doubled over as the rainbow tore line off the reel right down to the backing.   The guide was rowing the boat around, yelling at Alex to keep the rod up, “Use the rod, use the rod. … Continue reading →

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