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Over the next few months, this blog will feature the very few things I’m sure about. Below is my wire-frame. Each month, I’ll get into a bit of background about how I arrived at such certainty, in each case.
Editor’s comment: Such a great reminder: that’s life’s grandest cures are as simple as life itself.
Editor’s comment: I was driving my 34 year old daughter to the airport to go home to Chicago. She downloaded this song to my I-Tunes and said, “this makes me think of you and me”. I cried.
"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed....
For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself."
Editor’s comment: In a June 25th article titled “China eases credit as US Tariffs Loom”, it was reported that China’s central government will release $77 billion to 17 large banks who are to “use the freed up funds by converting bad loans into equity in companies that default on their debt”. At the time, I was reading this book by Dinny McMahon, who spent ten years as a financial reporter in Beijing. To get attention, the publisher and author get ham handed at times but the soul of this book is solid and fascinating to me. It explains in terms I could understand that China’s centralized government, combined with the communist party’s political will to become the preeminent world power could unravel due to constant tinkering with its financial system. Unlike other authors, McMahon avoids trying to time this calamity but very good support is given to how a storm is brewing.
I am an avid follower of current events and yet learning the following facts surprised me:
Editor’s comment: I’ve written about Dr. Brown before. She is brave in her writing. Hope you enjoy.
