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September 21, 2009
- September 21 SELF-SEEKING IS A DEBIT Trying to get credit for everything I do has run me into debt in my anonymity account, which draws directly from my humility bank. I cannot expend my resources seeking acknowledgement and expect to retain much dignity or class. How can I build within while constantly grasping for nods and smiles from scenery and landscaping? I want approval so ...
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September 4, 2009
- An excerpt from my Marion Grace novel THE GODMOTHER, as yet unrevised and unedited. It had been Jack’s salvation that he was cunning with words. Who cared whether the literal and spiritual truth were poles apart? You judged a book by its cover. Readers were scarce, and if they gave up on the contents, the cover remained intact, its ...
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May 24, 2009
- That day, she fretted long about the lot of women. It could not be denied that the ancient droît de seigneur of feudal times still operated beneath a veneer of good manners. A man need not spare a moment’s hesitation for his arrogance in assuming that any woman he chose was there for the taking. Barriers could be trampled down at will without a grain of ...
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February 1, 2009
- Are of today the news thatGermany is secretly prepariong a plan allowing the federal government to expropriate and nationalize banks and other financial institutions when other attempts to "save" them prove unviable. We do not know how all of this will differ from the idea of creating the Bad Banks or from President Obama's plan. It is however extremely interesting that this bold move, ...
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January 30, 2009
- Hedge funds, bankers, bonuses, stimulus, debt, "How Will the U.S. Pay For All Those Dollars?" oversight, confidence, Wall Street, banks, capital, bailout, claw-back, sub-prime, phantom profits, "Advertisers have to strike a delicate balance this year," "burnish corporate images," "Troubled Asset Relief Program," Ponzi scheme, Tax Scheme, fraud, trustee, ...
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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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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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December 18, 2008
- In the conservative world, the United States is bastion of Glory. All nations look to America, and none that are truly free have lost respect for us in the past eight years. In the conservative world the President, George W. Bush has done everything correctly. That is with the exception of expending monies towards such wasteful spending as Medicare Part D, No Child Left Behind, and a host ...
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September 16, 2008
- I've come to the conclusion that it's a mistake to mortgage the present for the sake of the future. There's a paradox in this, of course. I don't mean squandering money, or any kind of resource, because the future is uncertain, but making an investment in who we are as individuals and as a society, so that we can have confidence that there is a future within us. This is not a fashionable way ...
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March 31, 2008
- Dear Jane,I feel like I have a love/hate relationship with money. How can I change this so that I am more financially secure?------Most of us struggle, at one time or another, about money. But what is that struggle really about? I read an article in USA Today about couples and their relationship with money. Most of the advice they received had to do with planning ahead, paying down high credit ...
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