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The purpose of our blog is to provide ethical and endlessly curious views into the world of money and investing. Hopefully, as you read our blog posts, you will increase your knowledge about the use of money, improve your investment results, and reduce the risks and costs associated with the use of money. Our commentary is not crafted to support any political agenda, but will comment on the potential consequences of both current and projected actions of our Government (and others) on the economy, investments, and the efficient use of money.
We are neither focused on the individual investor, nor riveted on the professional. We will strive to deliver highly evolved commentary, fully digested concepts and rational projections in plain straight forward language that is easily palatable and useful to all.
We also strongly encourage all well-reasoned and civil-tongued readers to comment, question, and enlighten us with their knowledge and experience. Persistent synergistic discussion has the power to enrich us all.
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Art Zaske
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by Art Zaske on January 28, 2010
Many of us listened to President Obama’s State of the Union speech last night. The overwhelming desire was to hear what Government was going to do to get the economy started again. This seems to indicate a certain loss of confidence in the possibility or probability of a classic cyclic rebound based on pent up demand. Still, while Congress dithers, our population grows, wages slowly increase and inflation eats away at the sting of too much debt, whether held by individuals, corporation or government.
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by Art Zaske on January 24, 2010
In his January 23, 2010 Op-Ed piece in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman offers some advice to President Obama. The advice targets job creation and while the author exhorts Obama to abandon the backroom politics of Congress and revitalize “the amazing, young, Internet-enabled, grass-roots movement he mobilized to get elected,” Friedman misses his own point.
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