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Monthly Archives: August 2013

Institutional Investors Declaring Independence

Monday, August 19, 2013

So, it is with tear stained eyes that I note that I am back in Connecticut, and back at work. One advantage, if advantage you can call it, is that I will be blogging more frequently. It may sound surprising, but I found better things to do while I was in Vermont. So, I start […]

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Book Review

Thursday, August 15, 2013

A few weeks ago I read a blog post (can’t remember where anymore) in which the author mentioned Louis Brandeis’s book Other People’s Money and How the Bankers Use It. The book was written in about 1913 and was originally serialized in Harper’s Weekly, and the blogger, whoever he or she might have been, said […]

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Cynicism 101

Friday, August 9, 2013

It’s raining here in Vermont, else I’d be doing something other than ranting, but when life deals you lemons… Okay, so I’ve done my feel good post for the week, meaning I can go back to cynicism and decrying the death of the American Republic. But speaking of cynicism: President Barack Obama met with Apple […]

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Amazing but true: a Church does a good thing (of course not here in America)

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

This should prove, or nothing can, that I will indeed be highlighting, at least once a week, some good news, no matter what the source. For this week, not only am I pointing out something good, but the good thing I am highlighting is actually being done by, of all things, a religious organization. Well, […]

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Musings from the Green Mountain State

Sunday, August 4, 2013

First off, an apology to any miserable creature out there who needs a daily fix of CTBlue, should any such creature there be. Friday we made our annual pilgrimage to the beautiful state of Vermont, and blogging will be sparse, sporadic and, perhaps, non-political for the duration of our vacation. Speaking of blogging, I have […]

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