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Time to Look at Snow
In the last half of the seventies, the Monday after Christmas was committed. I would meet Jay Penney at Graves Creek, get into the Snow…
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Thinking About the Finns
I noticed a meme this morning, stressing the well known Finnish Sniper Simo Haya. Like all memes, it is partly true – Haya’s rifle was a Mosin-Nagant. It was also worked on to be competitive in target shooting, and…
55 Miles per Gallon by 2026
The EPA has spoken. All non-electric cars made after 2026 have to average 55 miles per gallon. I remember how I felt back in the Nixon days, when someone explained, “It’s no big deal. I’ll just trade the V-8 in on a four cylinder.” I was already driving a 4 cylinder, and it got over mpg. It was a 1960 Borgward, with a tall fourth gear. 2,469 pounds, and the factory stock specs were 22.3 mpg. The blued and balanced engine helped for fuel efficiency as well as speed. I once made the Bozeman to Trego trip on exactly 10…
Julius Caesar and the Shortest Day
The Gregorian year is 365 days in 3 years out of 4, then 366 in the leap year. The tropical year – the time it takes the planet to circle the sun is 365.242199 days. That difference from 365.25 is why we had a leap year back in 2000 but didn’t in 1900. It’s complicated, but the shifting dates on solstices and equinoxes provided the data for development of the Gregorian calendar. The Roman calendar, prior to Julius’ corrections, worked with a 355 day year, with some extras thrown in every so often. It was a hard system to know…
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Jimmy Carter Never Was Our Worst President
I heard the comment that Joe Biden would replace Jimmy Carter as our worst President. I have to stick up for Carter – we had extreme inflation on his watch, and the Iranians took over the embassy – but his accomplishments are insignificant compared to James Buchanan. In Buchanan’s single term. He came in as…
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Maintaining Value in Money
Generally, inflation is a product of governmental monetary policy. Stable currency isn’t often the goal of the politicians, so we wind up with inflation. Adam Smith, in The Wealth of Nations wrote: “The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the…
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