October 2024
9 articles published this month.
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Inside This Issue...
Welcome to Your First Mega-Monthly Issue!
As I said in the Sept. 6 issue, for the foreseeable future, I won’t be publishing twice a week, but just once a month. This will allow me the time I need for the almost-finished and half-finished books I’ve…
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Notes From My Journal
Humble Bragging
I recently spoke at a meeting in Miami of about 40 entrepreneurs, most of whom had businesses with revenues in the $1 million to $10 million range. Since they were in a range I had written extensively about in…
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Books I'm Recommending
The Wealth of Shadows
By Graham Moore 384 pages Published: May 21, 2024 One of two books selected for the September meeting of The Mules, The Wealth of Shadows was a terrific read from start to finish. Briefly, it’s the story of an…
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Your Monthly Quiz
October Quiz: Ten Questions On Politics, Science, And Safety
Safe cities and firearm ownership… cholesterol levels and statin drugs… the Capitol riot and Hunter Biden’s plea deal… and more Test yourself on ten questions, some of whose answers I hope will surprise you…
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Articles and Essays I’m Recommending
How Wikipedia Became a Propaganda Site
In the Sept. 6 issue, I mentioned that over the past year or two, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in Wikipedia. When it was founded in 2001, its mission was “to provide all the world’s information for free –…
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TV Shows/Series I’m Recommending
The Decameron
An 8-part series on Netflix First episode: July 25, 2024 Watch Time: approx. 1 hr. per episode I am completely enjoying Netflix’s production of The Decameron, which I clicked on out of curiosity. Was it going…
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Movies I’m Recommending
Small Town Crime
Written and Directed by Eshom & Ian Nelms Starring John Hawkes, Anthony Anderson, Robert Forster, and Octavia Spencer Released in the US: Jan. 19, 2018 Watch Time: 91 min. I was in a mood. I liked the title…
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Books I’m Writing
I Went There to Exploit the Property Values
Chapter One of The Challenge of Charity In 1996, six years after the end of the US-backed Contra war, the overthrow of Anastasio Somoza by the Sandinista Party (led by Daniel Ortego), and the democratic…
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Readers Write
From SC: “I have a question for you…What’s holding up the collapse?
“For a long time now, I’ve been reading very cogent, lucid, and compelling warnings about the IMMINENT economic disaster ahead because of our massive national debt. Not only from essays by you, Bill Bonner…
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