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We saw La La Land this morning.  The music was wonderful, the actors were believable and the story is compelling.  Do not give up your dreams.

I started reading The Man Who Knew, an authorized biography of Alan Greenspan, by Sebastian Mallaby.  The book is sponsored by the Council of the Foreign Relations, the long time forum for the political elites who set the agenda to govern the world’s nation states.  Mallaby makes some snide comments in both the Preface and Introduction about libertarianism and gold.  I will have more to say about this in my book.

Wilt Trump do the right thing?  Reduce the burden of government on the American people or will he just be a new manger of the welfare-warfare state with a catchy slogan?  

“Two images bookend the most remarkable political contest of modern times. In the first, Donald Trump rides an escalator down to the lobby of Trump Tower to announce his fanciful campaign for…”

Source: Trump defied the polls, press and pundits to win White House

After three weeks without going to the gym with my personal trainer, I spent Saturday morning in a relatively intense session getting back into shape.

Finished Stockman’s book, which is a must read for anyone interested in learning how Greenspan and then Bernanke caused the bubbles and then how Bernanke and Paulson (Treasury secretary under President Bush) bailed out his Wall Street buddies.  In addition, Stockman discusses the financial engineering that that the Fed helped facilitate with its low interest rate policies.  All in all, a productive day in gathering the evidence of how the Fed damages to the US economy, while fueling mass speculation on Wall Street and in corporate America.