Tim Knight from Slope of Hope's blog

I did a post less than a month ago called Won't You Be My Neighbor? which vividly captured a crumbling rustbucket of a "house" that was being offered for $1.8 million.

Let's say there was a fellow here in Palo Alto named Brad. He told me that he had invented the world's perfect tiger repellant. He simply sprayed it on, and voila, no tigers would bother him.

Enjoy the sensuous downy smoothness of the currency everyone loves to hate.

Just as "orange is the new black", I think that "oil producers are the new gold miners." It doesn't sound quite as good, but here's my point:

In future years, when historians try to ascertain why on earth the massive middle class of the United States willingly allowed itself to be completely hollowed out......

Sure, it would be neat. Maybe the gang could stop by the malt shop and grab a pop and a burger! We wouldn't want to be late to the sock hop at the gym tonight and spin a few platters. I heard there might even be some necking afterwards!

At the midpoint between our two houses is a funeral home which, oddly, Marissa Mayer decided to buy a couple of years ago.........

Way back on August 30, I did a post called Past Fear, Present Fear, which offered up an analog of the VIX  I followed up on October 9th with my Moment of Truth post, which was just before the markets started really falling hard. Thus - so far, so good. I've hacked together an update of the analog.

Want to live near the 0.1% and their problems? May I present to you 258 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, California, which is located within walking distance from my house and is a mere $1,800,000 (well, that's the asking price, but it'll probably go for more). Behold.......

This is a riot: watch the gubernatorial debate in Florida as the two candidates have a pissing match over.............a fan.

Which brings us to Clinkle, which is a firm founded by a 22 year old with no business successes behind him (which at least Color.com's founder could claim, as he sold his firm to Apple for a fortune). Clinkle initially received $25 million (fun fact: the same amount used to fund Google, which went on to bigger successes than building a single app) and has been ostensibly hard at work on this thing for years. 

I was originally going to title this post "Jackie DeAngelis Must Die", but I thought she might take it the wrong way.

What if it had gone differently? What if, six years ago, in the throes of the financial crisis, the political leaders in D.C. had decided that enough was enough, and they were going to seize the opportunity to make real and meaningful positive changes?

So what they're doing is requiring medical marijuana dispensaries...........to set aside a portion of their cannabis............to give away free............to poor people

Although I never thought it was possible, it makes me angry to write this book review. I'm not angry because I don't like the book. On the contrary, this is the best economics book I've ever read. Indeed, it may be the best and most influential book I've ever read in my life. I only wish I had read it the moment it was published in April 2013.