Paving Potholes

 March 25, 2024 |Mark Ryan
Good afternoon, Regarding the Market’s mood: This year’s market seems to be forecasting a mild recession at worst and wants to get out in front of the recovery before the slowdown even gets here. It’s as though it anticipates any slowdown as a detour...
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Mr. Bankbot will see you now

 March 22, 2024 |Mark Ryan
Good afternoon, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is most famous for his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, but he also wrote a few other stinging critiques of his Soviet homeland including his fictional work, In the First Circle. As the name implies, the story...
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Content Warning

 March 19, 2024 |Nichole Eggen
Good afternoon, Today, a little more on the ever-present US election news, including a quick 10-minute Audio commentary. (Warning: The tape sounded scripted to me…soooo… maybe don’t listen to it while driving or operating a backhoe. There’s a good chance...
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BYO Popcorn

 January 23, 2024 |Mark Ryan
Good afternoon, I’m starting today with this invitation to an online seminar (one of two I’m including today – both are good I think). Note the times are listed in Torontonian. How to age alone and well. Jan. 24. It’s an interesting topic, and it might...
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Shivering Heights

 January 15, 2024 |Mark Ryan
January is prediction month. It’s cold! Hauling out the garbage this morning, that biting -39 Celsius nearly froze my face right off in seconds. Chilling relations -- the political-economic newsfeed has potential to get as weird this year as it’s been...
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