Each year Anchor Steam brews a special beer for the holiday season. Serious beer drinkers look forward to each year’s release. This year’s ale not only tastes great but comes with a label that conveys a great sentiment to customers: This is the thirty fourth “Our Special Ale” from the brewers at Anchor. It ia…
This morning Nancy Pelosi was on CNN saying that in terms of the U.S. automakers “…it is clear that bankruptcy is not an option.” The same newscast aired a story about a school district asking for a huge bailout. Their reasoning was if Wall Street and the auto makers could get help, why not them?…
Recently the Wall Street Journal interview Michael Lewis, author of Panic: the Story of Modern Financial Insanity. I believe his concluding comments are very timely and profound: “We have entered a period of risk aversion unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetime. Investors will be too wary for a while. You’ll read stories about people…
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Whether your candidate won or lost, your business is up or down or your health good or poor, the following quote (the last lines of Self-Reliance) are worth considering today: “A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises…
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Jewely Del Duca is an elementary teacher for Littleton Public Schools. In general, I believe teachers are remarkable people, but Jewely even more so. She has stage 4 cancer, and despite the pain, continues to teach her students each day. She wants to impart important lessons not just about academics but about life. For her…
Everyone is crazed about recent declines in the stock market, paper losses and who to blame for this debacle. It just dawned on me: I forget to blame anyone for my stock gains in the past! That’s right: in the last 20 years I’ve had some exceptional years when my stocks appreciated greatly. One year…