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  A very little, but big, detail I noticed from Saturday. Typically I see Jim Harbaugh lead his captains out of the tunnel and makes the "ok go" call for running onto the field. This time, it was 100% his players and Aidan made the "ok go" call for running out to touch the banner. pic.twitter.com/WzgkirFsrY

11/27/2021 – Michigan 42, Ohio State 27 – 11-1, 8-1 Big Ten, Big Ten East Champions The thing that cracked me was the folding chair. I don't know when this happened, exactly, but it might have been around the same time the turnover chain spawned its infinite variations around the country. There are three guys on the Michigan sideline who maniacally wave around folding chairs at key moments. They must be walk-ons. I can discern no rhyme or reason as to what prompts the chair waving. It d...

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About Last Week Pretty sure there wasn’t a game last week. The Road Ahead Indiana (2-6, 0-5 B1G) Last week: Lost at Maryland, 38-35 Recap: Indiana allowed 419 passing yards at 10.5 yards per pass. That’s a lot. Let’s look at the film to see if we can identify the issues: Hmmm… /scribbles notes I see. It appears Indiana dusted off the “maybe Jeremy Gallon will drop the next one” defensive playbook. It’s hard to see where the bottom might be on this season. Indiana’s streak of two ...

Could we possibly see official inflation top 10% over the coming months? Robert Wenzel seems to think so. (The official rate of inflation has already jumped from 1.7% to 2.6% just recently). A quick look at ShadowStats reveals a rather dark state of affairs with “real” inflation (based on the pre-1990 official methodology) already topping  6% and rising fast. According to Dr. Michael Busler, a finance professor at Stockton University, the economy is set to “take off,” thanks in ...

Are Horses More Useful to Humans Than Pigeons? And Other Letters to the Editor Credit...Kim Ludbrook/European Pressphoto Agency April 2, 2021 To the Editor: In Nate Blakeslee’s mostly favorable review of Matthew Gavin Frank’s “Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa” (March 21), Blakeslee writes, in reference to pigeons, that “no other animal aside from the dog has been as useful to humans.” Really? I daresay that in a con...

The Mines Of Midrange 2/18/2021 – Michigan 71, Rutgers 64 – 15-1, 10-1 Big Ten Heres a famous tweet. I...worked on this story for a year...and...he just...he tweeted it out. This is how your author felt when last nights broadcast began with the announcers relaying Steve Pikiells take on the game, which was "were going to jack up a bunch of heavily contested off-the-dribble twos and see how it goes." The announcers said it a little differently, leaving out the heavily contested jacks so they...

by Patrick Barron via Mises The seeds of sound-money destruction were sown at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, which established that US dollars could be held as central bank reserves and were redeemable for gold by the US Treasury at thirty-five dollars an ounce. This was the so-called gold exchange standard, but only foreign central banks and some multinational organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), enjoyed this right of redemption. The system depended upon the so...

by Doug French via Mises The Federal Reserve and the confederation of central banks which follow Chair Powell and his lieutenants at the Eccles Building have flooded the world with fiat script which is only limited by Keynesians’ and modern monetary theorists’ imaginations. In this flurry of metaphorical printing, one country, Russia, has loaded its central bank balance sheet not with the speculation  de jour, bitcoin, but instead with the barbaric relic gold. Tellingly, Russia’s s...

The Federal Reserve and the confederation of central banks which follow Chair Powell and his lieutenants at the Eccles Building have flooded the world with fiat script which is only limited by Keynesians and modern monetary theorists imaginations. In this flurry of metaphorical printing, one country, Russia, has loaded its central bank balance sheet not with the speculation de jour, bitcoin, but instead with the barbaric relic gold. Tellingly, Russia’s stockpiling began in 2016, and on th...