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Growth of Warren Buffett's Fortune Key: The red line is the value of his fortune.  The scale at the bottom is his age.  The yellow line ...

Dmitri and Daria Bukhman Meduza reports: The Booker Prize Foundation announced that the International Booker Prize is being renamed the B...

Spread Networks How One Guy Buried a $300 Million Cable to Save 3 Milliseconds and Sold It Back to Wall Street by Austin Liu A stupid littl...

I, Cringely From  I, Cringely :   The Permission Slip  A while back I asked in this space what would happen if Dario Amodei was wrong. I wan...

1935 Renault Celtaquatre by Ermell Renault made 44,000 of these cars between 1934 and 1938 . The engine produced 34 horsepower. It sold for...

S&P 500 PE Ratio - 90 Year Historical Chart Note that the vertical scale is l ogarithmic Tam commented on my last money post to tell m...

Yes, it seems unfair that a few people apparently have all the money while all the rest have none. Insert whatever platitude, pro or con, th...

Found this in a story from Willamette Week : Teachers whom OJP [ Oregon Journalism Project ] spoke to say there’s a high level of workplace ...

Drone, Coast Guard Cutter and US Navy Ships in Strait of Hormuz I will admit to being curious about how the war on Iran is going, but I don...

418 SW Washington St. Portland Oregon A couple days ago we heard that the fancy new Ritz Carlton had been reposessed by the lender . Now we...

The Snowboarder, the Italian and the Motorcycle Money Laundering Scheme FortNine This is such a great story, it's like a mini crime ...

Train hits truck with wind mill blade Dave Hughes Farm Seems like videos like this pop up on a regular basis and I got to wondering just ...

2026 Great Highway Hwy, San Francisco, CA 94116 California Bob tells us about a house in San Francisco: This property is a couple blocks aw...

Morning Midas Remember the car carrier that caught fire and sank a month ago? Birds have come home to roost: "Effective Immediately...

U. S. Bancorp Tower - aka Big Pink I get a newsletter from a realtor I know. We've bought and sold several houses in the 30-odd years ...

White Privilege I was talking to some people and it occurred to me that I had some serious advantages in my life. My parents were both colle...

International North–South Transport Corridor This is a curious story: In Asia, New Wars Are Opening Long-Dreamed-of Routes by Emanuel Pietr...

Not sure why I am posting this. I mean, who cares if the Chinese Commercial Real Estate ( CRE ) market is in free fall? The CRE market here ...

Interest Rates Stopped by CarMax  the other day to see what they would give me for my truck. They needed half an hour to inspect it and come...

I come across a story on Zerohedge  about the FIT21 Crypto Bill . I'm skimming the page and U.S. Representative Maxine Waters tweets he...