From the turn of the 20th century until just before WWII, Joseph Duveen was the preeminent art dealer in the US. Known for his famous quote — “Europe has a great deal of art; America has a great deal of money” — Duveen was born in England and dropped out of high school to help …
Law #13 – Help Me Help You Help Us
Beautiful opening scene to Mel Gibson’s “Braveheart.” Might want to visit Scotland one day. Likely not, but … a thought. Anyhoo, the first few minutes of the film return to 1280 AD. The Scottish king dies without a proper heir, and the nobles and elders of the clans were invited to a meet with King …
Done Deal / Deal Done
Saw a video about how the Webb telescope is just making the case for GOD as the Creator of the universe and everything in it (heh / didn’t need $10B for that) and during which a member of the panel discussed how 2023 was the hottest year on record … and went on to state …
Law #12 – Conditional Truths, Salacious Generosity
Al Capone, crook supreme, believed in no one and distrusted everyone. As grandsire of organized crime, Capone laid down with dogs and itched constantly. So when Count Lustig approached Capone at the height of his power, offering to double a $50,000 investment in 60 days, Capone knew it was a con. However. Intrigued, he decided …
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Law #11 – In-dis-pen-SA-BAA-AHHLLoooo
In a piece of almost-forgotten history, a town in the Middle Ages was saved from a foreign aggressor by a mercenary, and the good folks of this small community wanted to reward this exceptional man for his heroic acts. Money? No, could never pay him enough. Honor? No, could never esteem him enough. One bright …
Debt = Samara
Feels a bit like being trapped in the cycle … vortex, perhaps? … of debt, repayment, debt, repayment, ad nauseum, ad infinitum. OK, so the Elder needed work done on the house … had plenty of cash / wait. Back up. The Familial DOs currently living in the home of Elder mentioned a few issues …
She’s the Man
Caitlin Clark is that guy. Seriously. Never watched women playing sports — the pinnacle of uninteresting — until Ms. Clark came along and whooo-weee … color me impressed. Dunno, but watching her play is actually fun. Not exciting, exactly, more akin to “What’s she going to do next?” And I find it funny that folks …
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A father in New Jersey thought his kid was a little fat, decided to run the child to death on the apartment complex’s treadmill. Methinks not on purpose, just ignorant babydaddy jerk supreme. An anti-momma’s boy from the great state of PA was charged for neglecting his ailing mother to the extent that her skin …
Limping into the 21st Century
OK so Arizona just repealed its Civil War-era, pre-state admission to the Union, 1864 (yes, that is an “8”) ban re abortion, and must say methinks … that is really, really sad. No debt owed to modernity there, oh-ho-ho-no. But they did repeal it, so that’s something. Still … the laws in effect remain way …
Standard What? Standard Who?
With investing there is a novel little concept called “standard deviation,” and what that means makes no sense to me, so will share with you. Edelman explains it like this (see p. 234): “The standard deviation is the amount of swing in performance that an investment can be expected to have from year to year …