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Our pets, all in a pile

Our pets

Our house is dominated by our animals. Spotty, Yup Yup and MooCow.  MooCow was a kitten that we fostered for just a few weeks.  Yup Yup the Shih Tsu came home for just a weekend. So much for our sense of discipline. My first pet was Flash. He was a wonderful cocker [...]

Return to a gold standard?

Judy Shelton at the Commonwealth Club

Yesterday I attended a talk by Judy Shelton at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on the general topic of creating a stable international monetary system. Her talk was quite entertaining, and she certainly dropped a lot of names, indicating first name familiarity with Milton Friedman and Alan [...]

Reading books on my iPhone

I had been debating about getting a Kindle. Some of friends have one and they sure are cool.  More than that, I’m getting bothered with the clutter of piles of books – particularly business books and the like that I mostly just read once.  Why get so many physical books? An ebook seems so much [...]

Thinking about the 401K

Back in the 80s it became common for companies to phase out defined benefit pension plans in favor of 401K plans. It certainly seemed like a great thing all around – companies shed the onerous burden of the pension plan, and employees got the freedom to invest as they chose potentially unlocking much higher gains. [...]