If you want top quality healthcare – you can’t get it without someone paying – a lot. The cost goes up every year as more and more procedures and meds are developed. And professional staff is expensive – I have a young ICU nurse client in a major Westchester hospital. Not counting benefits her salary … Read more
Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years there have been many periodic climate crises – some of them literally threatening the destruction of humanity – but none of them due to human activity. We know that there was a climate change so rapid and dramatic about 62,000 years ago, that nothing grandparents could teach … Read more
The sort of thing Trump would do…? This is almost funny. The former president finds a new way to honor himself. Nobody runs for president without a robust ego, and winning two elections for the nation’s highest office is unlikely to lower anyone’s self-regard. Still, it takes a special kind of nerve to bulldoze local … Read more
These videos are triggered by the fact that the current CEO of Walmart (who started stocking shelves in 1983) is retiring after a successful 11 year run. Walmart takes care of their employees and they are very loyal. That’s the first video – 7 minutes long. The second is how the Founder Sam Walton’s three … Read more
And has doubled the S & P over past five years. It’s all about AI and quantum computing.
Karp (I love the guy) defends Palantir and their government contracts and their support for Ukraine and Israel. His rapid fire speechifying goes for less then 4 minutes. Below the video is a simplified explanation of what Palantir does. The explanation of Palantir’s mission is from Perplexity AI. The question I asked perplexity is in … Read more
This was part of the so called “Big Beautiful Bill”. And it is/was a great idea. Michael and Susan Dell plan to donate $6.25 billion to 25 million children for savings accounts. The founder of Dell Technologies and his wife will provide $250 for children age 10 or under who were born before Jan. 1, … Read more
The former Reagan speechwriter who has had a Wall Street Journal weekly column for decades. She is a thoughtful person (and no fan of Trump). I have not read either book (and won’t be). Excerpts below the link. Kamala Harris’s memoir gives you little idea of what she believes. John Fetterman’s is better. I spent the … Read more
The payoffs are so huge for the traffickers that they are OK with risking death. Excerpts below the link. “The high-seas cowboys who speed tons of cocaine to American consumers are now getting blown out of the water. They say it won’t stop them.” CALI, Colombia—They see themselves as the cowboys of the drug trade, … Read more
The article below is from a Catholic League press release. As I read it I thought “Yup, and this kind of Black & White, either/or thinking applies to so much of our social commentary and opinions today”. A recent example: “Charlie Kirk is a Saint v. Charlie Kirk is a racist, misogynist. I’m sure he … Read more