The Connection Between Music and Numbers 

The company I have worked with for nearly 30 years employs dozens of very good financial analysts. Some of them are technical. Some are fundamental. Some follow trends. Some follow momentum. And some follow large, macro-economic events.

One thing that has struck me is that many of them are keenly interested in music. It’s generally known that there is a relationship between music and numbers, and maybe that explains this. If it does, one would think that there is a common denominator in the music they like. But there is none. The range is wide and the preferences diverse.

When they talk about their preferences, I am always interested in the music they love that I don’t even know.

Here, Garrett Baldwin, one of my new favorite analysts, writes about some of his favorites.

Reminder: As I mentioned on Friday, I realize that my weekly posts have become quite long – maybe too long for some readers. So though I’ll continue to publish a full issue once a week, I’ll occasionally be sending you these “Just One Thing” pieces – short bits that, in my humble opinion, merit a few minutes of your time.

Today’s piece is about a threat that is very big, and very real, and very serious. A threat that politicians and the media on both sides are almost completely ignoring. 

Biden? Trump? It Doesn’t Matter: 
When the Next President Takes Office, He Will Be Facing an Economic Crisis Greater Than Any Before 

“It took Uncle Sam 232 years to accumulate its first $10 trillion in debt, nine years to accumulate its second, and five years to reach its third.” – Jason DeSena Trennert of Strategas, writing to his clients on March 8.

In this short but persuasive essay published in the WSJ on March 9, James Freeman argues that it looks like a mathematical certainty that the huge debt the US has taken on over the past 14 years will ruin the American economy sometime during the next presidential term. The only solution, he says, may be to follow a plan that Calvin Coolidge, who was even older than Biden or Trump, followed in the early 1920s to allow American enterprise to save the country.

Read Time: 6 minutes
Click here.

I know the weekly posts are quite long. I’ll shorten them up a bit by posting some of the briefs by themselves on other days. Today I’m sending you a short explanation of how the brain keeps itself healthy and 4 things you can do to help your brain keep your thinking clear and your mental energy at maximum capacity all day.

Brain Health 

Watch this (from TS): “An excellent, brief scientific explanation of the primary brain health factors and what we can do for them.”