Tag Archives: bonds

• Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism’s Imminent Demise
• A deadly storm is coming in Syria
• Report: Trump Admin Denying Passports to Citizens Along Border
• So Much for The Great California Bail Celebration
• Elections board takes less than a minute to reject proposal to close 7 of 9 polling places in majority-black county
• Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound
• Attention, Shoppers: Kroger Says It Is Phasing Out Plastic Bags
• U.S. court orders Trump administration to enforce chemical safety rule

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• You Can Never Change Your Life Through Willpower. Here’s What Actually Works.
• Supreme Court won't hear Trump bid to end DACA program
• U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clash Over Mandatory Union Fees
• The gun debate in Congress: From concealed-carry to the assault weapons ban
• We May Soon Be Living In Alexa's World
• An influential group of doctors says all teens should get screened for depression — here are some of the questions they ask
• How much money do people need to be happy?
• Venezuelan Oil Production Could Further Collapse On New U.S. Sanctions

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• 1 in 5 Americans have more credit-card debt than savings
• Silver: 2018 and Beyond
• Four Ex-Deutsche Bank Traders Evade U.K. Euribor Case
• Me, rich? Here’s what Palo Altans think about themselves
• Venezuela's New Cryptocurrency: Just Another Form of Control Fraud
• What's Actually Behind Cape Town's Water Crisis
• California’s Recurring Nightmare: Nearly Half the State is Back in Drought
• If Climage Change Wrecks Your City, Can It Sue Exxon?

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• The Science Of Loneliness
• The dark side of your $5 Footlong: Business owners say it could bite them
• These Will Be the Big Stories of 2018
• Stop reading what Facebook tells you to read
• Too much screening has misled us about real cancer risk factors, experts say
• Why American doctors keep doing expensive procedures that don’t work
• It's Time For Innovators To Take Responsibility For Their Creations
• Americans Will Eat a Record Amount of Meat in 2018

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Having just lived through the massive fires in northern California — on top of watching news reports over the previous weeks of similarly abrupt "before/after" transitions in Houston, Florida, Puerto Rico, Mexico City, Las Vegas and Catalonia — I have a new-found appreciation for the maxim that when it arrives, change happens quickly — usually much more quickly than folks ever imagined, catching the general public off-guard and unprepared.

We humans tend to think linearly and comparatively. In other words, we usually assume the near future will look a lot like the recent past. And it does much of the time.

But other times it doesn't. And that's where the danger lies.

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It seems as if Mother Nature is waking up. Either she's trying to send humans an important warning, or perhaps she's just out to kill us all.

Massive storms across the globe, earthquakes, and collapsing ecosystems all combine to remind us that we are indeed intimately connected to our planet's natural systems. And that our well-being rests on staying on Mother Nature's good side.

Well, Mother Nature has seemed pretty pissed at us of late. Her recent punishments should be taken as a disciplinary wake-up call.

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Permanent impairment of capital is the cardinal sin of investing.

Well, today's markets present a clear and present danger of coming capital impairment for those who don't take prudent action in advance of a market downturn. Don't be guilty of inaction.

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