Drukenmiller takes on Scott Bessent

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Stanley Druckenmiller is an investment titan – 30 years with never a down year in the market. The op ed is in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal and he is criticizing a certain action the Treasury is expanding, to try and regulate interest rates. I’ve excerpted some of it. Deuckenmiller’s sensible answers to our problem at … Read more

Dolly Parton

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Gone at 80 years old. From the NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/arts/music/dolly-parton-dead.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260825&instance_id=180914&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=87616590&segment_id=225389&user_id=1c634a87d1656cc79c8753416632bbac Dolly Parton, the country singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur whose rags-to-riches story, outsize persona and prodigious vision and talent placed her in a class by herself, died on Tuesday in Nashville. She was 80. The death was announced in a video posted on social media … Read more

Another major study on walking and health

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Video less than 4 minutes long. The channel has 755,000 subscribers. Note that twice the participants are labeled “suboptimal” so clearly the group was not a bunch of fitness freaks. I guess mostly they just walked. No mention of step counts – just a breakdown of how long they walked and their cardiac health.