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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.
We Are The World
During these coming holidays, let's remember that America IS Great. Turn your speakers on, click on the link below and remember We Are The World. Check your EGO at the door and listen all the way through. Happy Holidays from Think in the Morning. CLICK HERE...
Misery
[click on blue links for further information] Dickens Quotes courtesy of The Telegraph "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure...
I Want To Write A History of Inequality
[Click on the Blue Links for further information] Many years ago I studied inequality. I delved into Gini ratios, the annual Current Population Surveys of the Census Bureau, and a number of distributional statistics all in a naïve attempt to answer two...
Think in the Morning, It’s Good For You
Several studies have correlated waking up early with success. Here’s a breakdown of the benefits reaped by early risers. 1. In a 2008 Texas University study, college students who identified themselves as “morning people” earned a full point higher on their...
Keynesian Economics and the Sea Gull
[click on blue links for more information] All you need to know about Keynesian economics can be summed up in one statement: What goes around comes around. Several years ago, I came across a small isolated town and stopped for gas. Being an economist, I...
Channeling Charles Péguy
There was a man, a Frenchman, you wouldn’t know about him, my child. . .He was a good man, a holy man, and he lived in sin all through his life, because he couldn’t bear the idea that any soul could suffer damnation. . .This man decided that if any soul was going to...
A House Divided
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the...
Cow Hollow Bartender Assaults Seniors
DORIAN bartender Jacob Ring, “Torito” to his friends, was up to his usual tricks Saturday night. The youthful looking thirty-eight year old was once again serving drinks to senior citizens as if they were normal people. No matter the four unsuspecting seniors were...
L’Osteria
I don’t do restaurant reviews. This is an exception. I expect there will be more. San Francisco is a special place for me. I remember as a young boy first visiting San Francisco with my father sixty years ago. He was the owner of a restaurant and hotel in the...
Gurus and Geeks
[First published in the Real Estate Magazine, April 1998, revised 2016] I obtained the following definitions from the American Heritage Dictionary: GEEK: A carnival performer whose act usually consists of biting the head off a live chicken or snake. GURU: A...
May 11
This odd mathematical coincidence caught my eye today as I was trolling Twitter. Richard Feynman was born on May 11, 1918 (see Maria Popova's article at Brain Pickings) Bob Marley died on May 11, 1981 -- See below Maria Popova @brainpicker For Richard Feynman's...
Steps to Security
I recently read The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans by Neal Gabler. As someone who has worked for thirty years as a financial adviser, reading the article was both sobering and painful. It was sobering because it gets to the root of the angst in...