Tag: Happy Ending
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Who needs FDR when you’ve got Powell?
Via DailyMail: Goldman Sachs readies for a third round of lay-offs that will include some partners in the next few weeks after slashing more than 3,000 positions in the last year as investment banking deals drop off. It is CEO David Solomon’s attempts to cut costs as deal-making – the firm’s major revenue source –…
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Wonderful concept!
John Herrmann describes most of the tech tyranny as executive fantasies. = = = = = START QUOTE: Changing Facebook’s name to Meta was a bold attempt not just to rebrand a company but to set an industry agenda, and while it ultimately failed, it sort of worked, for a while. One question worth dwelling…
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Baobab
The Episcopal denomination is rejuvenating itself by rejecting its decaying Western branch. This schism took a lot longer than other church renewals, probably because most of the money and property were controlled by the decadent branch. The healthy roots in Africa and Brazil, containing 85% of the church’s people, finally dismissed the money and issued…
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Two graphy Californians
I’ve been reading Steve Sailer and Wolf Richter for many years. Both are longtime Californians, both are keen observers who know how to look beyond the partisan crap, and both use a lot of data and graphs. Recently Sailer has been losing his sharpness and Wolf has been gaining. Today’s articles are a good example.…
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Postmodern dream
This morning’s dream was set in a future without social media. Achievements were no longer recognized by blue checks or Likes. Achievements were recognized by fastening a metal plate to a giant kiosk or carousel, something like the carousel formerly used for order tickets in restaurants. I knew a black lady who was doing an…
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Nice symmetry
Powell is no longer entirely alone in turning us back toward a REAL HONEST COUNTRY WITH A REAL HONEST ECONOMY. Peculiarly enough, the Biden administration is taking genuine steps to bring our stuff back from China. Via Reuters, the administration is using the Defense Production Act to spend $50 million on incentives for PC board…
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On the other clutch…
I don’t want to spoil the clean outrage in previous item with a footnote. Still, there is a partial silver lining. AI gathers up and reproduces ACCEPTABLE writers and artists. AI unsees unpersons. Most fiction writers deserve to be snatched and copied, since they stopped writing original work at least 30 years ago. They’ve been…
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Two of my favorite people
A Reddit ‘filler’ says that the honeydew melon was introduced to China by Henry Wallace. China already had its own melons, but quickly grew to love the honeydew and even named it after Wallace. This happened on one of Wallace’s foreign Goodwill Tours, which the demonic HUAC later tried to call treason. One of the…
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AOL coming back to life?
AOL was the Web’s main home page for many years. I came into the web from Compuserve, and ended up inside AOL because Compuserve’s email automatically became AOL. In the last 10 years AOL seemed to be gradually fading, bought by various larger entities, with only its email still functioning. My personal email is still…
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I can see it now…
The Ankler is discussing the bank runs as a future movie….. I can see it now. It’s an Effective Life. Sammy as George Bailey. Caroline as Marian the Librarian. William MacAskill as Oddbody. Powell as the bartender: “This is a HARD BANK. We serve HARD MONEY to HARD MEN. We don’t want no Bitcoin Twinkies…
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FDIC to Bitcoin: Drop Dead!
This is breaking news. I included it as an update to last week’s ramble about Silvergate, but this deserves immediate mention and an irresistible headline. Silvergate, the main real bank supporting the fake foundation of bitcoin, was collapsing. Earlier today it tried to imitate Goldman, begging FDIC for a bailout. Now FDIC has told Silvergate…
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Nuke news!
Via StraightArrowNews, a new nuclear power station STARTED OPERATION today! Two more reactors on the site will start up in the next few months! Several other plants are allegedly planned, but this group near Atlanta is the only actual construction and completion in many many many years. Dixie gets it right every time. I made…
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Make something of it, never give up
I’ve been reading Curt McConnell’s ‘Great Cars of the Great Plains’, mainly to gather more about the Great Smith in Topeka. One of those car companies found its niche and is STILL IN BUSINESS TODAY! Luverne began in the usual way as a small carriage maker in a small town, tried making a car in…
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Sunflower blooms again!
The former Sunflower Ammunition Plant in DeSoto is being recast into a giant EV battery plant by Panasonic. I caught a hint of this via Reddit, and noticed that the location looked like Sunflower. Most of the articles miss the Sunflower connection. This article at Bizjournals confirms it. Sunflower was a mysterious ghost town for…
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Royalty on both sides of the ledger
Publishers normally pay royalties to an author. This time a publisher LISTENED to royalties. Camilla made a speech calling on Demon Puffin to publish Dahl’s work as written. Amazingly they obeyed. They will publish the real work along with their fake work. Last month Charles kicked out the British end of the Epstein Blackmail Factory.…
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