There’s a tinge of sadness in your notes today, a philosophical requiem for the demise of hope. Maybe it’s the injury. When I’ve been hurt, I’ve felt less optimistic. A review of the failings of mankind can impinge upon our natural sense of joyful expectation. This too shall pass. Thanks again for your musings.
Main Street is done with Downing Street, with Wall Street, with 'Elite' street. We've been fed a diet of bovine emission for way too long. In the UK, the Supreme Court has revealed what a woman is. Folk in judicial hairpieces confirming the blindingly obvious. Farcical! The 'slithering class' inhabit a universe of warfare, welfare and law-fare. A hombre called Javier is spot on. ¡Viva la libertad, carajo!
Joel - this missive ranks as one, if not the, best yet. I will retain it for frequent referral to keep me focused during these turbulent and volatile times. Good on ya mate!
Joel, You crafted today an eloquent assessment of our time.
Much will be written about the change-maker responsible for the on-going upheaval and its consequences which, for many, is emblematic of end-of-empire.
Among them: tariffs that intentionally create high prices; a proposed tax cut that will exacerbate our humongous national debt; flight from the dollar; defying the Judiciary which fosters the makings of constitutional crisis; an aggressor (Russia) declared the victim; sabre rattling toward the most populated country on this planet which is also the source of items essential for our factories and for most of the medicines essential for the well-being of our citizens.
All times are historic; this time in the USA especially so
"...as though a guiding hand is working the machine..." One of satan's greatest tricks is convincing people he doesn't exist. Of course, God's guiding hand is there as well, but satan has more followers than God, and they seem to have an attraction to government offices, even if they are unaware of who their master really is. Don't despair, though, God and His people will inevitably succeed in the end, just not how the world measures success.
To seed, build, and nurture timeless, intangible human capitals — such as resilience, trust, truth, evolution, fulfilment, quality, peace, patience, discipline, relationships and conviction — in order to elevate human judgment, deepen relationships, and restore sacred trusteeship and stewardship of long-term firm value across generations.
A refreshing take on our business world and capitalism.
A reflection on why today’s capital architectures—PE, VC, Hedge funds, SPAC, Alt funds, Rollups—mostly fail to build and nuture what time can trust.
“Built to Be Left.”
A quiet anatomy of extraction, abandonment, and the collapse of stewardship.
"Principal-Agent Risk is not a flaw in the system.
Tantramar Marsh. For a time, the world’s largest hayfield. Bay of Fundy/mentalism fertility … converted to metastasis: “I’m humanimal. It’s what I do.”
((“The present-day marshes are among the densest breeding grounds in the world for some species, such as the marsh hawk (or northern harrier), and support small industries in muskrat and wild rice."
The latter grains to be continuously celebratory-showered upon the former rodents in nuptial suicide-pact joy, line-danced to Elton’s “Levon, Levon likes his money.” Despite no nutria-nts to be had in that swampy ceremony.))
Take all that hay, plus all the hay from every other field in the world, from the dawn of making hay while the sunshines time*, & fashion it into the Guinness Book of Universe Records largest scarecrow-strawman there could, or will, ever be.
And that waste of silage stood next to the straw state is in like proportion to standing a Lilliputian next to Gulliver.
An inanimate, but for swirling atoms, pistol is deadweight, too.
The stubby finger/s, connected to the atrophied brain/s, not the trigger, connected to the hammer, is what does the dirty deeds dirt cheap.
(Love the Tesla AC who/what won the DC battle but alas as is so often the case lost the war … But my fave is Highway To Hell).
That’s what the state is. A pistol that too many continue to mantra on about as being inhabited by a poltergeist.
“The gun just went off.”
I used to read Interest Rate Observer. At the re/public (if you can keep it … smirk) library. Too expensive a subscription so traversing the panhandler gauntlet had to be.
Jim Grant must have overlooked his, & everyone elses’ too, relationship to US Grants. Because that statement you rockin’ robin retweet sure overlooks how it is, reality, for how/it/ought/to/be-ology.
Formerly snow white corvids told birdbrained humanimal “nevermore” so often & so insistently that they went blue in the face first & eventually jet black all over … & still Icarus continuously turns himself into a crunchy-blackened swan.
*Muskrat ain’t sable. Too many don’t know what time it is or that it is later than they prefer to believe.
There’s a tinge of sadness in your notes today, a philosophical requiem for the demise of hope. Maybe it’s the injury. When I’ve been hurt, I’ve felt less optimistic. A review of the failings of mankind can impinge upon our natural sense of joyful expectation. This too shall pass. Thanks again for your musings.
Main Street is done with Downing Street, with Wall Street, with 'Elite' street. We've been fed a diet of bovine emission for way too long. In the UK, the Supreme Court has revealed what a woman is. Folk in judicial hairpieces confirming the blindingly obvious. Farcical! The 'slithering class' inhabit a universe of warfare, welfare and law-fare. A hombre called Javier is spot on. ¡Viva la libertad, carajo!
Joel - this missive ranks as one, if not the, best yet. I will retain it for frequent referral to keep me focused during these turbulent and volatile times. Good on ya mate!
Joel, You crafted today an eloquent assessment of our time.
Much will be written about the change-maker responsible for the on-going upheaval and its consequences which, for many, is emblematic of end-of-empire.
Among them: tariffs that intentionally create high prices; a proposed tax cut that will exacerbate our humongous national debt; flight from the dollar; defying the Judiciary which fosters the makings of constitutional crisis; an aggressor (Russia) declared the victim; sabre rattling toward the most populated country on this planet which is also the source of items essential for our factories and for most of the medicines essential for the well-being of our citizens.
All times are historic; this time in the USA especially so
"...as though a guiding hand is working the machine..." One of satan's greatest tricks is convincing people he doesn't exist. Of course, God's guiding hand is there as well, but satan has more followers than God, and they seem to have an attraction to government offices, even if they are unaware of who their master really is. Don't despair, though, God and His people will inevitably succeed in the end, just not how the world measures success.
Hello there,
Huge Respect for your work!
New here. No huge reader base Yet.
But the work has waited long to be spoken.
Its truths have roots older than this platform.
My Sub-stack Purpose
To seed, build, and nurture timeless, intangible human capitals — such as resilience, trust, truth, evolution, fulfilment, quality, peace, patience, discipline, relationships and conviction — in order to elevate human judgment, deepen relationships, and restore sacred trusteeship and stewardship of long-term firm value across generations.
A refreshing take on our business world and capitalism.
A reflection on why today’s capital architectures—PE, VC, Hedge funds, SPAC, Alt funds, Rollups—mostly fail to build and nuture what time can trust.
“Built to Be Left.”
A quiet anatomy of extraction, abandonment, and the collapse of stewardship.
"Principal-Agent Risk is not a flaw in the system.
It is the system’s operating principle”
Experience first. Return if it speaks to you.
- The Silent Treasury
https://tinyurl.com/48m97w5e
I am curious as to what particular catalyst you see occurring around 1500. Martin Luther, printing press?
Loved your first paragraph / section. Thanks, Happy Easter.
Another terrific article. To answer the last question... We hope so.
Thanks Joel
reining in, as in controlling the forward motion of a horse. Spell check will get you every time.
Tantramar Marsh. For a time, the world’s largest hayfield. Bay of Fundy/mentalism fertility … converted to metastasis: “I’m humanimal. It’s what I do.”
((“The present-day marshes are among the densest breeding grounds in the world for some species, such as the marsh hawk (or northern harrier), and support small industries in muskrat and wild rice."
The latter grains to be continuously celebratory-showered upon the former rodents in nuptial suicide-pact joy, line-danced to Elton’s “Levon, Levon likes his money.” Despite no nutria-nts to be had in that swampy ceremony.))
Take all that hay, plus all the hay from every other field in the world, from the dawn of making hay while the sunshines time*, & fashion it into the Guinness Book of Universe Records largest scarecrow-strawman there could, or will, ever be.
And that waste of silage stood next to the straw state is in like proportion to standing a Lilliputian next to Gulliver.
An inanimate, but for swirling atoms, pistol is deadweight, too.
The stubby finger/s, connected to the atrophied brain/s, not the trigger, connected to the hammer, is what does the dirty deeds dirt cheap.
(Love the Tesla AC who/what won the DC battle but alas as is so often the case lost the war … But my fave is Highway To Hell).
That’s what the state is. A pistol that too many continue to mantra on about as being inhabited by a poltergeist.
“The gun just went off.”
I used to read Interest Rate Observer. At the re/public (if you can keep it … smirk) library. Too expensive a subscription so traversing the panhandler gauntlet had to be.
Jim Grant must have overlooked his, & everyone elses’ too, relationship to US Grants. Because that statement you rockin’ robin retweet sure overlooks how it is, reality, for how/it/ought/to/be-ology.
Formerly snow white corvids told birdbrained humanimal “nevermore” so often & so insistently that they went blue in the face first & eventually jet black all over … & still Icarus continuously turns himself into a crunchy-blackened swan.
*Muskrat ain’t sable. Too many don’t know what time it is or that it is later than they prefer to believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV5Y1z8aSnw