Next week marks my 39th anniversary at CWS Capital Partners. It is hard to comprehend that I have spent nearly four decades at the same firm. When I joined CWS in 1987, Ronald Reagan was President, the Berlin Wall was still standing,
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Blog Archives
A Date with Success
“Watch out, you might get what you’re after.”
The line floats through Burning Down the House almost as a warning—half playful, half ominous. I’ve heard it countless times, usually sung along to without much thought. But lately, it’s been echoing differently.
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Pattern Recognition Is Not Prophecy
On Energy, Empire, and the Seductive Power of Coherent Stories
One of the most intoxicating human capacities is pattern recognition.
It is the engine of intelligence, the source of insight, and the reason we survive complexity at all. But it is also the birthplace of our most confident errors—especially when patterns begin to feel inevitable.
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China Syndrome
How Energy, Geopolitics, and Inflation Are Triggering a Global Market Chain Reaction
Financial markets have a long history of overreacting to geopolitical headlines and then quietly moving on. This time feels different. The recent surge in energy prices following events in Iran—coming on the heels of U.S.
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A Flourishing-Centered Purpose
I ended last week’s blog stating that I would focus on discussing purpose from a personal standpoint. Over the last few months, I have been interacting with Copilot about this topic and other personal and philosophical queries. One of the key concepts that has emerged from those interactions is how central human flourishing is to how I live my life.
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Building Your Productive Capacity
Over the years I have periodically written about approaching some of the choices I make in life and habits I have cultivated, or would like to do so, with the goal of growing my productive capacity. This is particularly the case when it comes to exercising and learning.
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The Power of Myth
I have been listening to Carl Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections, and it reinforces for me the power of the subconscious in driving human behavior as well as the importance of myths to guide societies, cultures, and individuals. Joseph Campbell wrote The Power of Myth,
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New - Debt Worries - Then and Now
by 
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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A 21st Century German Blitzkrieg
In a recent blog post I wrote about Trump moving (abandoning?) away from Ukraine as Europe’s Sputnik moment. Germany and France, the two biggest economies in Europe, no longer believe that the United States can be counted on to defend Europe so it’s now imperative they take far more control of their own destiny and not put Europe’s fate in the hands of the United States.
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Confusion and the Need for Second-Level Thinking
by Gary Carmell
Posted in Economy, Interest Rates, Investing, News, Real Estate, Stock History, Stock Market, Uncategorized, Wealth
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Gary Carmell
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Note: I was so absorbed in writing this blog while waiting for my connecting flight home at the Phoenix airport that I only realized after it was too late that I was at the wrong gate and that my flight was changed to a different gate in another terminal.
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