With China having gotten a lot of heat for Covid-19 I thought I would end this post with advice that I think one of its great philosophers would have given had he been alive today. Confucius lived between 551-479 B.C. According to Wikipedia,
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Confucius Say Beware of Superspreader
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Gary Carmell
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Gary Carmell
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A Brutal Dichotomy: Time For Another Meaningful Stimulus?
by Gary Carmell
Posted in Economy, Interest Rates, Investing, Trends, Uncategorized, Wealth
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Gary Carmell
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Fiscal stimulus has now started to contract while the Fed’s monetary support for the economy has tightened quite significantly over the last three months. See what the following charts show:
The following is from The Washington Post and shows how significant the support for the unemployed has been and how it will drop materially if no stimulus package is passed.
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The Fed's New Inaction Function
Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell officially altered the Fed’s reaction function during his virtual speech given for the annual Jackson Hole conference. More accurately he articulated its inaction function. Rather than being trigger happy to tighten monetary policy and raise interest rates as inflation reaches 2%,
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The Enemy of My Enemy Is my Friend
Last week I discussed the horrific explosion in Beirut. This week I’m staying in the Middle East and will focus on the big news that Israel and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to establish formal diplomatic relations. And while there were many indications over the last couple of years that the two countries were not only starting to cooperate but developing ever closer relations,
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Blast to the Future
What happened in Beirut was absolutely horrific. As the graphic above shows, it is considered to be the most powerful non-nuclear explosion in history. To put the power of the blast in context, the Oklahoma City bombers used two tons of ammonium nitrate while Beirut’s ignited approximately 2,750 tons!
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A Wonderful Trip - My Travels Through Greece, Italy and Israel
by Gary Carmell
Posted in Economy, News, People, Personal, Travel, Trends, Uncategorized, Wealth
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Gary Carmell
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Socrates said that “wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” In my book, I talk about the importance of wonder in the context of leading a fulfilling, meaningful, and interesting life. One of the best ways to keep wonder alive is to get outside of our normal environment and travel.
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Wading into Turbulent Waters
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,
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What's Going On? America in Crisis, in the Lyrics
I was intending to write about the tremendous drop in interest rates around the world in the wake of Brexit, the dramatically improved jobs report, or the $20+ billion that is now frozen in UK property funds. And then the shocking execution of five Dallas police officers shortly after the death of two seemingly non-threatening African Americans in Louisiana and Minnesota took place.
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Dividends - Do They Really Matter?
by Gary Carmell
Posted in Economy, Interest Rates, Investing, News, Stock History, Uncategorized
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Most real estate investors deploy their capital in this asset class because of the income it can generate. This is very much the case for those investing with CWS. Since 1991 CWS has sold 79 properties**. Approximately half the return has come from dividends and the other half from appreciation*.
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Global Warming - Then and Now
The impassioned plea that took place recently from teen climate activist Greta Thunberg at the U.N. understandably caught the attention of much of the developed world. At the risk of being controversial/politically incorrect I decided to do a couple of searches on www.newspaperarchive.com on “Climate Change” and “Global Warming” and restrict the years to between 1919 and 1965 to see if these were topics covered by newspapers back then and,
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