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Essays on current affairs, business, investing, economics and politics can be found in this section. Think in the Morning has no particular incite into any of these areas. We write what we are inspired to write. Read at your own risk.
Death and Taxes
[Click on BLUE link for sources and more information] Nothing in this world can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets....
Launch Day
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] This is going to be a different sort of post for me. I’m writing on a subject I know nothing about, a boat launch. I know very little about boats and avoid them when I can since I get terribly...
Inside the Hologram
[Click on the BLUE links for sources and further information] The Vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my Vision’s Greatest Enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like thine; Mine has a snub nose like to mine. Thine is the friend of All Mankind; Mine speaks in...
Loving Animals in Their Proper Place
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] There is at least one thing I agree on with Donald Trump: “Donald was not a dog fan.” As a Godless liberal and unrepentant elitist, I have no plans (nor does Donald) to add a pet to my family in...
What is the Economic Impact of Natural Disasters?
[Click on BLUE LINKS for further information and sources] It depends on what the meaning of “is” is. Bill Clinton [Note: Make sure to read the last paragraph all the way to the bottom.] Before I was a restaurateur, before I was a financial...
What About the Grandkids?
I grew up in small town America and look back nostalgically at what I now know was a privileged and cherished childhood. While I lived in a one-parent home and money was tight, I had everything I needed. In spite of the rural agricultural landscape, I had...
Think in the Morning – Splat in the Afternoon
[Click on BLUE links for more information] A few months ago I was climbing down a rickety ladder from a loft in my house with a box of files precariously balanced on one hand, the other hand guiding me down the wobbly rungs of the ladder. My...
The Downside of Inheritance
Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. Barry Switzer “Money isn’t everything,” said my mother, “but it...
Tough Love
The stories I will tell now are true or mostly true. I’ve changed the names and taken some liberty with the details. There are things you need to know. It isn’t easy to tell anyone that they are living in an illusion, that they have unrealistic expectations,...
The Watchful Eyes of the Censors
[Click on BLUE links for further information] “Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings.” Heinrich Heine, Almansor Censorship has many faces: burning books, burning witches, burning heretics. While not as...
Funny Money
Financial advisors would have you believe they inhabit an arcane world of alphas and betas and that they and they alone can navigate the mysteries of modern portfolio theory. The reality is a bit different. Let me tell you about an average day in the life of...
The Complexity of Hypocrisy in the Age of Donald Trump
Dante and Virgil, on the right, watch the hypocrites, wearing lead-lined cloaks, filing past the high priest Caiaphas, who is nailed to a cross on the ground. Caiaphas was the priest who said that Christ should die. Each hypocrite steps on Caiaphas as he passes....