blessed...................

 

We bless this year for all we learned,

For all we loved and lost

And for the quiet way it brought us

Nearer to our invisible destination.

-John O'Donohue

Can we end this nonsense this year....?

 

Step two.........................

 

later today............................

   

 thanks Rob

Can we please stop..............................

 ..............................this time change thing?

Best wishes ........

 ..................................for a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year.

more year end fun here

In case you were not aware.............

The very long U.S. election season is here.  What to keep on mind? Two things strike me as fundamental.

1. Knowledge is complex and dispersed. This means that innovation (and progress) depend on trial-and-error innovation in a competitive environment – one not encumbered by the heavy hand of you-know-who. This is especially important in a season when the candidates have policies, plans and programs for everything.

2. In fact, there will always be a political class (includes their many private sector cronies) working hard on cronyist plans and policies.

Millions of voters have sat through some version of an economic principles class. How many of them have encountered these two fundamental principles? Too few, I worry.

These two fundamental observations are facts of life and in conflict. That’s what makes it interesting. The economist Peter Boettke has elaborated and even imagined a derby involving “Three S’s”.  Smithian gains from trade, Schumpeterian competition, and, third S for stupid.

All three are always in play. And it’s election season.

-Peter Gordon, as cut-and-pasted from his blog

The perfect....................................

...................................................................................date.

The care and feeding of...................

......................the goose that lays the golden eggs:

May you ever be young.................

via

Check's in the mail.......................

As Jim Rohn used to say, pay with a smile for "it's the care and feeding of the goose that lays the golden eggs."  He also said that in case you think the goose needs to go on a diet, "let one appetite not accuse another."   My check is in the mail, and I'm still smiling.

Happy New Year!

2016: Not how I would..................

..............................describe it, but it has been an interesting year:

   via

The care and feeding.................

......................................of the goose that lays the golden eggs*.

* as paraphrased from Jim Rohn

some of the cartoons from here