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Good afternoon. The word of the week is: “nonlinearly.” As in, the trail up the mountain takes us higher in a nonlinear way. A recent study out of Stanford suggests that we age nonlinearly -- old age is a curveball – and it really does sneak up on us...

The Spendemic: Based on the menus of the various streaming services, it seems that baking shows are all the rage. Today we imagine new one: It’s called “The Little Shop of Uncut Budgets.” It’s about a freaky little bakery in (name your capital city) where...

Good afternoon, We start out with a long read (about 20 minutes), comprising an in-depth analysis of the potential for BRICS nations to develop a political/economic block of sorts. It’s worth a look if you’re feeling inquisitive about the potential for...

This week hit hard, though markets lumbered well enough, largely inched forward by rate cut expectations and still more favorable big tech news. Too Close and So Very Sad: We have some close personal ties with Utah Valley University, (where the Charlie...

Good afternoon, I’m passing along a few updates after a bumpy but not terrible week (as of noon Friday), which more or less describes the first 9 months of 2025! First, here’s this week’s latest RBC Wealth Management's investment newsletter. Life reimagined:...

Good afternoon, While summer rolls out and September approaches, we inch along bumpily in markets, occasionally touching new highs. The heat goes on, for now at least. More below, but first a quick flashback: Circa June 1990. The old banker they called...

Godspeed Mr. President. But do your (Russian) homework. While the US president deserves credit for seeking to broker a solution, he’s also occasionally bragged about his erratic foreign policy, arguing he could, for example, end the Russia-Ukraine war...

Good afternoon! We’ll start today with a quick quote: Socialism-with-power’s Unexamined Legacy: “No cause, ever, in the history of all mankind, has produced more cold-blooded tyrants, more slaughtered innocents, and more orphans than socialism with power...

Waffle House Democracy. Mostly Irrelevant quote of the week: “Something joyously democratic surrounds the wayward cross section of humanity that gathers at a waffle house in the dead of night.” Lance McMillan Reminded me of a time when I had belt notches...