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1. How to Improve Your Home Workspace Without Robbing the Piggy Bank

   How to improve your home working environment on a tight budget

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2. Crafting Success: Essential Steps to Launch Your Handyman Business

   How to start your own handyman business

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3. Yet Another Collection of Web Links

   Friday 26, May 2023

   Seen on the web

   • The Convergence of Antitrust Thought in the Late 1930s and Its Subsequent Collapse. The curse of bigness. Somehow, anti-trust dropped off the radar after the 1930s.

   • North Korean pop sound about CNC machine tools (really!). Shared with me by John Kozak.

   • Martin …

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4. Does the UK need a king?

   Tuesday 9, May 2023

   Does the monarchy matter?

   I am not a republican. Anyone can see that simply getting rid of a king is hardly the secret of a successful political order in a country. The UK royal family may have cultural influence, a lot of money, and the direct …

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5. Locking in supranormal profits

   Wednesday 3, May 2023

   The US Judiciary and How Anti-Monopoly Cases are Decided

   The United States has a big problem: its politics are dominated by corporate interests, and so too is its law. This is evident in the way that anti-monopoly cases are decided.

   When a major corporation is accused …

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6. Another one bites the dust! (First Republic)

   Tuesday 2, May 2023

   First Republic Bank falls into Jamie Dimon’s clutches

   We have the usual hysterical reaction to a bank failure. As usual, commentators are saying that the Fed will have to pivot. The reality is that the 10Y US yield went down 14bp: hardly falling off a …

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7. De-dollarization

   Monday 1, May 2023

   Exorbitant privilege and all that

   The Fed has created a lot of money. Of course, a lot of it has not translated into private sector spending, and so the impact on inflation has not been huge, but private sector lending has taken off again since the …

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8. Another cognitive bias

   Sunday 30, April 2023

   Pessimism Bias

   We all know about availability bias, confirmation bias, and probably several more systematic ways in which our intuition leads us astray in assessing the state of the world. There really are an almost uncountable number of cognitive biases, as this Wikipedia Article reveals. This …

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9. Energy Commentary

   Saturday 29, April 2023

   Energy

   I am chronically bullish on energy.
   Oil used to be boring. Right through to the end of the 90’s, the price of a barrel oscillated around $20. There was a massive spike before the GFC, a crash after it (but only down to $40 …

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