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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.
Welcome to the American Kleptocracy
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] Kleptocracy: a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. David Glasgow Farragut...
The Greatest Heist in History
[Click on BLUE links for sources and further information] Better views of some of the charts and some of the analysis used in this post can be found HERE: Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts America can be divided into five income classes: the...
Do We Really Need This Tax Cut? Just Askin’
[Click on Blue links for sources more information] NOTE: Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and his wife celebrate the first batch of dollar bills with his signature in the Feature Picture above. Mnuchin, who supports the current tax cut, made millions...
Trompudo’s Revolution
[Click on BLUE links for sources or more information] Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach Progress is not a straight line, there’s going to be moments in...
Keeping the Peace During the Holidays
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information.] “The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.” Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part One “You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family,...
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...