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QsOTD: The Devil Is My Friend

#CKStrong QsOTD: Quotes of the Day Hold those emails until reading this post’s title in the correct context. Also, maybe reconsider your criticisms as you see your leaders jumping in bed with strange bedfellows.

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What Happens When Your Enemy Isn’t Rational

#CKStrong Somehow Morgan Housel’s prescient January 5th blog post popped up on my screen the other night. It happened after a day of listening to analysts speculate about Vladimir Putin’s mental health, The efforts come as longtime Putin-watchers have publicly … Continue reading

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Nonfarm Payrolls: Who’s Bringing Home The Bacon?

#CKStrong As promised, Part Deux of our deeper dive into Friday’s payrolls report with the Top 50 industries with the fastest and slowest wage growth as measured by the BLS’ Average Hourly Earnings (AHE) data miners Have a look and make your … Continue reading

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Nonfarm Payrolls Report – Digging Deeper

#CKStrong We’re providing a deeper dive into Friday’s payrolls report with the Top 50 industries with the fastest and slowest payroll growth.  It’s still difficult to discern any new trends or secular shifts in the makeup of the payroll data. … Continue reading

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QOTD: The Graffiti Of Politics

#CKStrong QOTD = Quote of the Day Sir Ernest John Pickstone Benn, 2nd Baronet, CBE (25 June 1875 – 17 January 1954) was a British publisher, writer and political publicist. His father, John Benn, was a politician, who had been made a baronet … Continue reading

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Markets Sometimes Do The Work That Armies Can’t

#CKStrong The instant immiseration of a big economy [by sanctions] is unprecedented and will cause alarm around the world, not least in China, which will recalculate the costs of a war over Taiwan. The West’s priority must be to win … Continue reading

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How many Americans don’t believe the world is round?

#CKStrong Good Gawd! Social media is turning us into a nation of ignorant dumbasses.  Lies travel 6x faster than the truth on Twitter – MIT

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European Royalty: A Family Affair

#CKStrong “All kingdoms are monarchies but not all monarchies are kingdoms.” Queen Elizabeth’s husband [late husband] Prince Philip [was] related to the Romanovs through both his mother and his father. Philip is the grandnephew of Alexandra Romanov, Nicholas II’s wife, … Continue reading

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Don’t Chase Happiness, Become Antifragile

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The Super Plant Of The Future | DW

#CKStrong The Graduate The Times They Are A Changin

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