2021
October 18, 2021 As I sit down to write this, it is Sunday around 7:30 pm, and I’ve just returned from another long weekend of working on my house in Greenville. Some of you will know that I’ve been renting…
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October 11, 2021 Here we go again. Last Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the September jobs report. Despite a much lower than expected number of 194,000 new jobs created (the markets were expecting 500,000) analysts keyed in on…
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October 4, 2021 As someone who grew up shopping from the JC Penny catalog and old farm stores, I’ve always been a bit amazed at the magic of modern-day shopping. In less than five minutes you can push a few…
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September 27, 2021 We are fortunate to live in an era where we benefit from medical advances and a longer life expectancy. Two years ago, I was at a conference in Washington DC, where a retired Major General from the…
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September 20, 2021 Eighteen months – that is how far we are into the ‘new’ post-pandemic world. Over this time, there has been a lot of talk about the end of the office as we once knew it. With all…
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September 13, 2021 Twenty years ago, on a beautiful Monday morning in Atlanta, I had just got off the morning investment call at Merrill Lynch. Everyone on the trading floor was charged up for a week full of potential deals.…
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September 07, 2021 As Benjamin Franklin wryly noted, taxes are inevitable. A more recent development seems to be the inevitability of our politicians messing with the US tax code. Reports from Washington DC suggest that the House Ways and Means…
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August 30, 2021 My wife Sara and I were stunned halfway through Monday of this past week when our daughter’s daycare notified us that they would be closing mid-day due to staffing shortages. Nowadays, a positive Covid test result is…
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August 23, 2021 Are you itching to travel abroad again? I certainly was. The incentive was strong given much of our family lives in Europe. So, we accepted the risks and the bureaucracy and made another European trip recently –…
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August 16, 2021 I recently read a Forbes article called “Will the Gig Economy Become the New Working-Class Norm?” It got me thinking. It certainly feels like there’s a major shift in how people are choosing to live and work. Here’s what…
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