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I’m re-releasing this blog post again, published in early February of this year – it’s required reading! Was Ron Paul

The most surprising thing about Wall St. is the fact that we need both of these types – the forever optimists and forever pessimists. Each of them are just as important as the other.

I was about to undergo a new project where tons of measurements had to be taken and suddenly I realized that there wasn’t a pencil in the house. After scouring around, I found two pencil remnants, very short and only one had any eraser left. So I did something I haven’t done since my kids were in elementary school, I went shopping for pencils.

If we are at the end of this run-up in commodities, and hence inflationary pressures, some factors we haven’t seen before could be responsible, making the end of this economic expansion look much different than those of the past.

Let’s discuss the mysterious Number 9. This number fascinates me since I found out on my own that when adding a numerical sequence with the purpose of reducing it to a single digit the number 9 does some very interesting stuff indeed!

Have you ever heard the term “the lost decade”? It was used to describe a period of time after the internet bubble burst in the year 2000 which preceded a decade long bear market in U.S. stocks. The S&P 500 Index returned a paltry 2.3%/year, a consistently negative net return after inflation, and for an entire decade!