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Just when experts watching the American economy start to take deep breaths ("U.S. may skirt recession again" says Reuters; "Another inflation indicator cooling" says the Democrat-Gazette), in other major countries, if not major economies, the news isnt so good. And, in one case, the bad news couldnt have happened to a better regime.

The news coming out of Russia--aka The Capitol District of the old Soviet Union--comes across the wires so fast, we can barely keep up. An inky wretch starts out writing an editorial about one story, and the next one eclipses it.

The Russians thought the war would be over in a few weeks. In fact, they didnt expect much of a war. Just an invasion. Maybe a few battles. The military brass was reserved about the possibility of a quick strike and a quick end. But the politicians in Moscow were adamant. The Russians denied their obvious bombing of civilian cities, no matter what the pictures showed. They were just packages of humanitarian aid! So the locals, being bombed, sarcastically called the falling ordnance "bread b...

Once upon a time, we made fun of that headline. Used to be, boring American editorials about international diplomacy, but we repeat ourselves several times, used words like "whither," and some of us snickered. Who talks like that? Whither good writing?

Last week I wrote an article for Margin of Safety Investing subscribers explaining the bear market and why there would be a few rebound rallies. Read more here.

Why dont we move that down on the to-do list? this isnt going particularly well for comrade putin. but i have a fear, and its a fear that when i talk to people, and some people on this set, they start talking about the united states doing things that would trigger world war iii, that would lead to either a limited nuclear war or long-term nuclear war. thats the political, the geopolitical impact of this. americans and people across the world saying, do something. do a no fly zone, even though we...

Now that we are a few months into 2022, it seems that many employees are finally starting to see an uptick in their earnings. It has been estimated that wages will rise about 3.2% this...

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If you were the average, red-blooded, teenaged American boy in the late ’80s, you weren’t sure of too many things, if anything at all, but on one issue there was no tentativeness and no serious debate. The Russians sucked. The Russkies were definitely and unequivocally the bad guys. Rambo told us so in Rocky

New Year’s prognosticators were nearly unanimous that 2022 would be a better year than 2021. With COVID cases easing, the stock market booming and jobs aplenty, it seemed we were