Wants and Needles

 October 29, 2021 |Mark Ryan
Good afternoon, Another gloriously sunny fall day in the central interior, as markets continue to stutter upward, despite political wrangling. In this week's issue of Global Insights: Fiscal Policy Progress – Congress looks poised to pass a combination...
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On a hot tin roof

 October 23, 2021 |Mark Ryan
Good afternoon, Stuff my dad would have brought home in a tabloid… in the 70’s: With apologies – the kids are gone, and I’m all backed-up with dad jokes. It’s reported that sometime in the middle-ages a nun in a French convent began meowing one day for...
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Bottlenecks

 October 19, 2021 |Mark Ryan
Go Boldly This week, the man best known as Captain James T. Kirk joined a small crew and boldly went to the sky inside a really and truly spaceship. The privately built, New Shepard spacecraft took the 90 year old William Shatner AKA “Geezer-pants,” over...
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Try this at home

 October 09, 2021 |Mark Ryan
The leaves -- those bright, glorious hangers-on -- are making their way toward composting dirt, our potatoes are harvested, and our tomatoes are salsa for another day. The fall pause in stock values has… well, paused, for the week at least. Meanwhile...
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