May 2024
59 articles published this month.
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News & Views
Election Watch — May 1, 2024
Trump’s “Show Trial” in Manhattan: An Embarrassment to the American Justice System? From Alex Berenson in the 4/24 issue of Unreported Truths: Like Trump or dislike him (and as you know, I dislike him), he is…
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The Economy & Investing
Chart of the Week: Interest Payments Explode
Chart of the Week: Interest Payments Explode This week’s chart is an appropriate follow-up to Sean’s April 22 column and my April 24 post on inflation. As you can see from the chart, the cost of servicing our…
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Fun and/or Interesting
The Unlikely Story of a Soon-to-Be Billion-Dollar Business
The Unlikely Story of a Soon-to-Be Billion-Dollar Business I only occasionally read stock-market-related stories about companies in which I’m not invested. But I found this piece on “Uncrustables” worth the…
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Worth Watching
Of Muppets and Men: The Making of “The Muppet Show
A made-for-TV documentary Released in 1981 Watch Time: 52 min Of Muppets and Men is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of “The Muppet Show,” a TV series that ran from 1976 to 1981 and eventually became a…
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Worth Quoting
I would rather…
The April 26 issue of Letters of Note presented a list of memorable quotations that began with, “I would rather…” These are my favorites: “I would rather fight a guy who had a knife and no talent with same…
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Quiz of the Week
Travel Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Governments of the World?
Click here. (I got 15 right on this one.)
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Photo of the Week
Walrus Wading Through Arctic Waters
A walrus wades in the chilly waters near the Magdalenefjorden fjord
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Readers Write
From RB re the April 24 issue on inflation
“Once again, your essay on yet another important and timely topic – this one, on inflation – is the best and clearest thinking I have read in recent memory on the subject.” From JG re “My Escape Plan from…
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Postscript
Local Heroes
Three short news stories to restore your faith in humanity: Click here and here and here.
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