Personal Finance

$1,990.70/ounce.

I know, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)… that’s what everyone wants to talk about. How did the 18th–largest bank in the United States crumble in 48 hours with no early warning, and what are the contagion risks?

Who slipped something into Jerome Powell’s drink? I thought the conspiracy theorists assured us the FED’s job is to prop up stocks and artificially keep interest rates low… Guess listening to wannabe FED experts is not a sustainable investing strategy!

Have you ever seen those movies, where the rafting boat or a kayak or a little fishing boat is featured, the people on board are casually drinking beer or talking amongst themselves, and then one of them detects the noise of rushing water?

My twin boys are really getting big now. Just a couple of months ago, they were crawling around the house and barely stood up against any furniture item, so I spent very little time trying to stop them from unintentionally causing damage.

Seymour Hersh is the reporter who authored a detailed account of what he believes happened to the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines on September 26th 2022. Two things are incredibly interesting about his detailed article…

In 2002, Steven Spielberg produced and directed Catch Me If You Can, the autobiographical story of Frank Abagnale Jr., whose real-life story is almost impossible to believe – yet it is true, and in it, Leonardo Di Caprio plays Frank, a teenager who impersonates a doctor, lawyer, and even a Pan-American airline pilot.

Poverty as far as the eye can see is how I can describe my grandparents’ experience.

I’ve seen some grand delusions in my time, but none have been more out of touch with the direction the world is headed than the utter dreams of total control concocted by the World Economic Forum, which has no clue about what comes next.

For the past six months, I’ve been playing table tennis every Thursday against another player. He is a wealthy guy engaged in liquidating failing businesses, and he LOVES table tennis.