WildLife Guards Boy Scout Event

This past Saturday, September 26, I spent the day with seven of our ten Bridgeport WildLife Guards back at Brideport, Connecticut's Plea...

Walls of worry update

The inverse correlation between the market's level of fear, doubt and uncertainty as proxied by the ratio of the Vix index to the 10-yr ...

Inflation is not too low

There's a meme running around that says that deflationary pressures are so acute (think falling oil and commodity prices, coupled with c...

A tale of two diamond rings

These two platinum and gold diamond rings appraised for a cool $23.000.00 and they were found using the same metal detector but in two very ...

the prettiest travel journal ever

Swept away by WANDERLUST is a charming travel journal, bound in a premium, earthy latte-colored cloth, for the boho-chic traveler who wants...

Chart du jour

The news at times seems overwhelmingly bearish. To paraphrase the consensus: China's economy is slowing down; China's currency has b...

Spirit Of Akasha & Morning Of The Earth Limited Boxsets

This is pretty cool- in the merch stack for the Spirit Of Akasha tour that arrived (late) from Australia, there were the last 2 limited box ...

Crab Park

Apparently, this waterfront green space east of downtown Vancouver began as Portside Park (fitting given its location), but has been renamed...

Why a recession is very unlikely

Here are four charts that suggest that a recession is quite unlikely, at least for the foreseeable future. As the chart above shows, the pas...

Chart updates

Markets continue to be nervous, but not nearly as much as they were a month ago. Oil prices are very low, commodity prices are still driftin...