I’ve been told that AI stands for Artificial intelligence, is that like I can’t believe its not butter, because that is not butter and I am beginning to think AI is not intelligence. OAN’s Brooke Mallory wrote an article this week about AI use in Carl’s Jr, Hardee’s, Del Taco, and Checkers. Presto Automation offers …
Bygone Relics
The election of Austrian economist Javier Milei as President of Argentina is one of the most intriguing events that I can remember. Polling suggested in the weeks leading up to the election that Milei would not win as he was running against a well-funded incumbent but win he did. It was by a landslide as …
That is the Deguello, it is known as the Cut Throat song composed by Dmitri Tiomkin. It is the Mexican bugle played before the Alamo, and it means no quarter. It means there will be no mercy, and it means you have been warned. In Rio Bravo, Dean Martin’s “Dude” sobered up real quick when …
America has been left with a choice and there is no right answer. Due to the two-party system prevalent in American politics voters might be staring down a sequel that no one wants to see again, Donald Trump vs Joe Biden. I personally think that Trump will be convicted, and Biden will be replaced by …
I’m often reminded of the first three subjects of our Cooperative: Kobe Bryant, Bill Russell, and Ronald Reagan. They exhibited such different yet such wonderful strengths. Kobe Bryant had a unmatched work ethic and a self- assurance that his way would be successful, Bill Russell was driven by sacrifice and understanding team dynamics to become …
“Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.” Benjamin Franklin We left off last week in 1900 when gold officially became the only metal redeemable by the US government as money. The silver standard was gone as with it went the inflationary impulses of increased silver finds like the Comstock lode that …
“Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves.”― Norm Franz, Money and Wealth in the New Millennium Today I want to talk about the greatest quarterback of all time. He played in 10 titles games while winning 7 of …
Do you know what the equivalent of Covid was in the 1840s? It was the American Indian, it was risk versus reward at America’s finest. That’s right as the more daring individuals took off from St Louis Missouri and started the long journey west across the sunlit plains, they encountered the Sioux, the Cheyenne, the …
I’ve spent much of the weekend glued to the events of the Middle East. On Saturday morning, Hamas invaded Israel from the Gaza Strip by air, land and sea. I wrote a bit about this for Looking Backwards Looking Forwards but let’s recap what happened before we try to figure out what is really happening. …
When the deepest and most liquid treasury market in the world starts bouncing around like my EKG watching Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct, we might have a problem. Barron’s had a great article by Randall Forsyth talking about a new fiscal regime or what Luke Gromen has called fiscal dominance which is that the debt …