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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.
Cat Fight
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] Government shutdowns are not a new thing. Gary Evans over at Global Macro Monitor recently provided an effective short summary with this graph. It is interesting to observe that the...
Addicted to Trompudo
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] Many families have a relative they look up to, a personality known widely in a local area, nationally or internationally. For me it was my Great Uncle Lewis Foster, my grandmother’s brother. He was...
Goldilocks
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] Just then, Goldilocks woke up and saw the three bears. She screamed, "Help!" And she jumped up and ran out of the room. Goldilocks ran down the stairs, opened the door, and ran away into the...
Eating the Seed Corn
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] Wise old farmers have long had a saying: Don't eat your seed corn. In simple terms, it means that every seed that comes through your hands has the potential to either be eaten or planted for next...
Smoking
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] My mother and grandmother smoked their cigarettes in a little room off the kitchen we called the back porch. In the company of a washing machine, a dryer, a chest freezer, and a broom closet they sat at...
A Modest Proposal For Today
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Based on: A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland, from Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick by Jonathan Swift ...
The Attack of the Fifty Foot Baby
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say,...
The Rich Get Richer
[Click on BLUE links for sources and further information] Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, erstwhile Republican now Independent, has an article out today This Tax Bill Is A Trillion-Dollar Blunder. It’s a “must-read” for anyone who cares about our...
Tis The Season
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] It’s a great time for drunks and gluttons. Just a few weeks after gorging on roast turkey, oyster stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole (with cream of mushroom soup and crispy...
Udder Nonsense
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] If you have read any of the posts on this site, you must be aware that Napkin Art adds an interesting historical and artistic dimension and adds immensely to the delight factor, if any is to be...
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...