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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.
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....
The Medium is the Message: David Wallace, Marshall McLuhan, Delarosa Redux
[click on blue links for further information] The brilliant author, David Wallace, gave a commencement speech at Kenyon College in 2005 with the title This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life. ...
Calm Down and Shut Up: The Politics of Lao Tzu
[click on blue links for further information] NOTE: All translations of Lao Tzu are from Ursula Le Guin or Witter Bynner unless otherwise noted. You might say that I’ve been a mess of emotions since the November election. The candidate that I least...
Bonehead Economics: Things to Know in the Era of Trompudo
[click on BLUE links for more details or information] "Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient." Lawrence Summers My brother was eight years older, and I idolized him. When he went away to...
Martin Luther King Day 2017
Today we celebrate the life of an American hero. One day is not enough. I suggest you contemplate Dr. King's life and accomplishments throughout each year at moments that arise spontaneously whenever you are confronted with racism, sexism, or any other "ism"...
President’s Day Thoughts
[click on blue links for further information] As my friends and family know, I’m a bookhound. I’m also an unabashed political freak/nerd/addict. I’m no authority but I have watched every presidential election since Eisenhower versus Stevenson. ...
Trompudo, A Literary Phenomena
[Please click on blue links for further information] “Donald Trump – a ludicrous figure, but at least he’s lived it up a bit in the real world and at least he’s worked out how to cover 90 per cent of his skull with 30 per cent of his hair … It always...
Some Optimistic Reads On Christmas Day 2016
[click on blue links to read the article and for further information] Pollyannish: A person regarded as being foolishly or blindly optimistic. [after the heroine of the novel Pollyanna by Eleanor Hodgman Porter (1868-1920), American writer “Never short...