Michael Lipsey's Blog

• A nation of debtors is not free a free people.

  January 28, 2009

  • The economy...Oy! And my second book of epigrams will be out in a few months. Here is a selection from the chapter on Wealth. And some advice for managing the stress regarding your investments: Don't Look! When the economy crashes you need to keep your head, even if you’ve lost everything else. The mark of an amateur investor is “believing” in a stock.  What you own lets you sleep -- what ...
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• It’s the sure things that turn out really badly.

  January 6, 2009

  • My year begins with optimism for change for the better, and worry because the economy is deteriorating. Since retiring I've been a full time artist and writer, living on savings and investments, and like most of my friends, taken a finanical hit this last year. I've lived through quite a few recessions, but nothing like this one. So my recent epigrams have tended to the financial: "It's the ...
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• The end of a tumultuous year.

  December 15, 2008

  • This was a good year for epigrammists. Politics and the economy were going up, down and sideways. Plenty of the best and worst of human nature was in evidence. Out with the old and in with the new might be coming true. We can only hope. I've completed my second book of epigrams and am well into my third. Here are a few December thoughts for this holiday season of joy and perhaps, more modest ...
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