November 2016

Dave Canal
November 29, 2016

Recently, I was in a local restaurant having dinner when my cell phone rang.  As I reached for the phone, I saw a client’s name.  It was the first day of stock trading following the election.  The market had opened down horribly but closed up 250 points for the day.  Virtually everyone in the media had been saying Hillary...

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Dave Canal
November 15, 2016

Imagine buying a washing machine for $800.  Then a month later you see Sears Roebuck advertising the same model for $400.  You know you can’t take it back.  You’ve used it.  Is the new price low enough to warrant buying another?  And if you did, what would you do with it?  In the real world when you have too much of something, you don’t want...

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.”

– Bernard Baruch