🎸 Don’t Look Back in Anger — Jerome Powell’s Pivot Ballad
Subtitle: A Fed Chair’s Lament in the Key of Regret
Intro: Leadership flows best when it’s adaptive,
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Brothers in Arms
I had the great fortune to see Oasis at the Rose Bowl with Heather. What an incredible show and communal experience.
Source: https://x.com/TaylorMod/status/1965516938727358469
From the moment I saw Liam Gallagher’s following post on X in August 2024 I could not wait to see one of the reunion shows.
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A Jackson Hole Farewell
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell gave his annual Jackson Hole address last week. It’s almost assuredly his last one and is a fitting end to his tenure as it remained consistent with his personality and approach which is to be measured and flexible versus narcissistic and dogmatic.
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Suddenly, I'm Not Half the Labor Market I Used to Be
Last week, I mentioned the possibility of showing the output of an A.I query regarding some events that took place with me recently. I’m going to have to save that for next week or beyond, given the release of last week’s jobs report. It was so jarring and had such market impact that I would be negligent if I didn’t focus this week’s blog on that report.
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Little Bets -Should Highest Cost Debt Be Repaid First?
I recently read a summary of an interesting piece of research that is somewhat counterintuitive at first glance but upon deeper reflection makes more sense and it’s the cornerstone for one of life’s great metaphors, you’ll see what I mean.
Little Bets -What We Can Afford to Lose vs.…
Roland Garros and Fathering
I’m still mesmerized by the nearly five and a half hour final at Roland Garros between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner. Sinner was up two sets and only needed one more to win the tournament, but Alcaraz never gave up and fought back with incredible ferocity.
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To Claim or Not To Claim. That Is the Question
I saw a lot of coverage last week about people taking their Social Security benefits as soon as they become eligible at age 62. This is a typical headline.
The thinking is that the much larger than expected number of people filing for their Social Security benefits at the earliest age is due to concerns that program benefits will be cut in the future as a result of DOGE and President Trump’s lack of regard for legacy institutions.
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From Procrastination to Perfectionism - The Art of Play
This week’s blog post continues with the second half of the summary of Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovich. Every creative person is constantly faced with obstacles that get in the way of their productivity. And these can be brutal.
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New - Debt Worries - Then and Now
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Gary Carmell
Posted in Advice, Economy, Interest Rates, Investing, News, Uncategorized, Wealth
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Gary Carmell
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A blog for the curious skeptic –
There’s nothing new under the sun
(or at least very little)
I’m a big fan of newspaperarchive.com. I have a rather anti-social hobby of often going back and reading old newspaper articles. Occasionally I come across some worth sharing. The following is one written on March 18,
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The Intelligent Ignoramus
With this week’s blog, I will inevitably get drawn into the morass of politics by reposting this tweet from X.
Ignoring the typo in which “is” should have been “his” the post made me wonder about the paradoxical intersection between intelligence and ignorance.
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