Fortune Favors the Bold: Fortune and Luck

Luck presents opportunities. They often come with risk and the need to leave security and stretch ourselves to develop the talents fortune provides to take advantage of the opportunity. Courage and boldness are critical to growth. If luck does not present opportunities, and fortune does not present the skills and the temperament to see the opportunity and employ them, growth and change are unlikely.

You Cannot Instill Fear Forever!

We have mentioned, many times before, how the COVID-19 panicdemic — and no, that’s not a typographical error; ‘panic’ is exactly what this has all been about — has promoted fear far more than combatting the virus. Though he was talking about national security rather than the virus, Glenn Greenwald got it absolutely right when …

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New Report: Majority of Companies Are Planning Hiring Freezes or Layoffs, Increasing Likelihood of Recession

Despite a July Commerce Department report showing a second consecutive quarter of negative GDP growth, the classic definition of a recession, Biden administration officials insisted that continued strength in employment data proves otherwise. The jobs numbers have most certainly been strong. Earlier this month, the Labor Department reported that 528,000 jobs were added to the economy …

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The Fall of the American Republic is Looming

In the early days of this Republic, the media were even willing to savage George Washington, a man who had sacrificed or risked as much or more than any other American to establish and preserve this nation. Despite Washington’s record of honorable, steadfast and selfless service to his country, the press of his day accused him of being a thief, a seditionist, and would be monarch.