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At the newsstand...........National Geographic

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At the news stand:  Jerry Ford and the Economy

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So far so good with our real estate...............

      The plunging markets are the result of a decades-old macroeconomic regime falling apart.  High inflation, not seen in the rich world since the 1980s, is back, which in turn has brought to an end ten years of near-zero interest rates.  As a result, the rule book of investing is being rewritten.  Protecting portfolios from inflation, once a peripheral concern, is now a prime consideration.  Rising government-bond yields, meanwhile, make riskier assets less desirable.

-The Economist, from this Briefing

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.................................at the newsstand:  

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Three Dog Night.................Freedom For The Stallion

 

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Life Magazine's   April 14, 1972 isssue

Getting a head start on 2020.......

...............I started thumbing through the newest Almanac (for farmers & city folk).  Among the tidbits of interesting things, this was found:

     Lemmings are not suicidal!  Filmmakers in Disney's 1958 nature film, "White Wilderness" pushed dozens of lemmings off a cliff while cameras rolled, for dramatic effect—thereby staging a lemming death plunge.  This deliberate fraud started the myth.

Finding it difficult to fathom that Disney would ever release a film that wasn't the gospel truth, the Oracle Google was consulted.  Google clearly backs up the Farmer's Almanac on outing this fraudulent film.  Amazing.  How come I never knew this?

Say it isn't so...............................

...............The end of Mad Magazine?   When we were youngsters, my sister's usual Christmas present for me an annual subscription to Mad Magazine.  She is the greatest.  There is a stack of those old comics (circa 1962-69) around here somewhere.  One of these days I might look.

      via

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At the newsstand..........................................Life Magazine

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At the newsstand.................Life Magazine features Judy Collins

Judy Collins......................................................Someday Soon

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At the newstands...............A giant passes from the scene

Maybe that is why....................

....................................they're known as the "good old days"?

(The most popular magazine in America, for decades, was devoted to helping people figure out which one of three channels to watch).

-Seth Godin, as culled from here

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At the newsstands......Look Magazine examines race in America

1962.................................

Apparently there was a "flash crash" on Wall Street in May of 1962.  It passed unnoticed in my world.  I was only ten years old and my parents were not huge participants in the stock market.  It did have a large enough impact to make the cover of the June 8, 1962 cover of Life magazine:

As Ben Carlson says, "It’s actually kind of refreshing to know that investors in the 1960s were dealing with many of the same fears and uncertainty we’re all forced to deal with today."


Do visit his blog post on the subject.   After ample coverage of the "flash crash", he posts some of the advertisements that graced the pages.  One example:

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On the magazine rack.......Time's cover story:  The Gun In America

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On the magazine rack..........Life Magazine and The Generation Gap

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..................................Shock waves at the New Hampshire Primary

Senator Eugene McCarthy, running mostly against the War in Vietnam, shocks the political world by receiving 42% of the votes cast in the Democratic primary.  In short order, Bobby Kennedy would enter the race, and soon thereafter Lyndon Johnson, the incumbent President, announced to the nation that he would no longer seek re-election. 

When getting 42% of the vote feels like winning.  Eugene McCarthy on 3/13/68

Makes perfect sense to me.............

Quantum mechanics - a theory of the behaviour at the atomic level put together in the early 20th century - has a well-earned reputation for weirdness.  That is because the world as humanity sees it is not, in fact, how the world works.  Quantum mechanics replaced wholesale the centuries-old notion of a clockwork, deterministic universe with a reality that deals in probabilities rather than certainties - one were the very act of measurement affects what is measured.  Along with that upheaval came a few truly mind-bending implications, such as the fact that particles are fundamentally neither here nor there but, until pinned down, both here and there at the same time:  they are in a "superposition" of here-there-ness.  The Theory also suggested that particles can be spookily linked:  do something to one and the change is felt instantaneously by the other, even across vast reaches of space.  This "entanglement" confounded even the theory's originators.

-as excerpted from this Quantum leaps essay in The Economist

This is what the National Lampoon..............

..................would be doing if it was still doing.  What a hoot.