Category: Economy

  • Shake it up, baby

    More stuff: I was listening to the radio this morning and hearing Iran and Turkey are trading commodities. Iran is shipping uranium to Turkey in return for more “enriched uranium” for fuel rods to use in medical equipment for cancer research. This piece of news has been received with some hesitation as it does not…

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  • What did you hear today?

    What did you hear today?

    I heard from a banker that he agreed with me on the market outlook, saying the “blip” in the market was a terrorist attempt to see if the stock market could be manipulated. Isn’t that interesting? There is a definite shift happening. I wonder almost hourly what my role should be in all of this.…

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  • Love is all we need,…

    Love is all we need,...

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  • Don’t buy stocks now…

    Something new in the universe.. Mercury is out of retrograde But we still stand a chance of tipping off our axis. If you think there are too many things that are off in the world you are right. The environmental issues are bad enough but the presence of nuclear weapons will be what destroys us.…

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  • It’s all Greek to me

    It’s Greek to me! So for all of you out there who wonder if the world is coming to an end, YES! That is the world as we know it. There is no doubt in my mind that a new age is dawning. The market is falling and rising and falling. The volatility index is…

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  • Hilary Clinton

    Isn’t it interesting how Hilary has managed to maintain and enhance her reputation while the rest of the administration is losing theirs?I really like Hilary and respect what she is doing in the world. I like her presence as well as her ability to sustain relationships while all around her things are falling apart. Even…

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  • Square red planter

    Square red planter

    There is something very inspiring about an empty planter. Sometimes I leave planters unfilled for an entire season. This is disturbing to many and inspiring to others.I like the looks of this empty red planter because it looks as if it has been empty for a long time. This morning in the Times there is…

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  • What’s Important

    The morning coffee the affection of dogs sunshine honesty paying your bills especially when the payee needs the money breathing remembering to breathe smiling making others smile being truthful being faithful taking yourself out to where you want to go knowing where you want to go admiring other people who are smarter than you admiring…

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  • put your money under your…

    You would have to be hiding under a log at this point in time not to notice what is going on in our economy. I am not an economist. Far from it. I actually failed math for several years and had to go to summer school. Once my seventh grade teacher caught me cheating by…

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  • Visit to Painted Post

    The actual distance from Greenwich, CT to Painted Post, New York is about 198 miles by modern highway guided by the GPS system in my sturdy German car. Deciding to make the journey, however, took 60 years and an email from my son early one morning last week. I was sitting in the San Francisco…

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