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Ready, Set, Reboot?

This century only 20 years old has already pushed the boundaries of never before seen statistics and many firsts. Some nutjobs with skewed ideology flew commercial planes into large buildings killing 3,500 in the richest economy on earth. India did a global pilot with 1.3 Billion people when they decided to remove their most popular paper currency in an exercise called demonetization. Net result - some black market types got hammered.  Poor people (which is half of India's population) got hammered.  Today net result is that the grey economy continues with new Rupee notes.  Duh! World stock markets reached all time highs.  Man made indices to represent the fastest growth companies rang up huge profits as cost of capital plummeted.  World banks dropped interest rates to levels not seen ever.  Some went to Zero and some Negative.  It costs money to put it in a bank not the other way. More people are alive than ever before approaching 8 billion....

100 years of football

America it seems has once again fallen in love with their national sport.  Football. Statistics for latest season as tracked by trackers that track all things money indicate that attendance as well as eyeballs on screens were up on average 5% from prior years. When the 49ers played their conference championship last night the Levis was packed to its gills or waist?  Super Bowl in Miami this year is already boasting of headliner singers and crooners and rappers to entertain and enthrall the people paying to attend with tickets running as high as the cost of a fully loaded Tesla X. Hey if you got it flaunt it and then worry about debt. Right? After watching my first season of football (purely for material) including 10 full games with eight different teams (read corporations doing business) below are some rookie (not novice - see my lingo is changing) observations - There are 11 supersized humans on each side that competes at any given point on the field. The field ...

Sheer Madness

It seems the human machine has done it again. Got in its own way of self promotion. This time its yoga pants that are drawing the ire of the weary(ee). Or to be wearees. This when aspiring yogics stateside were taken aback with the newest creation from a money making outfit called Lululemon selling them a lemon. Or so they claim in the form of a see through pant. Well you see the goofy wannabe yogis in America were all lining up to buy comfortable (read sexy) yoga gear for mucho dineros. All was well till the customer had the power to decide when it was time to expose certain parts of their anatomy to seek a fellow yogi or berra (many puns intended here) for that matter. That decision making was taken away when the manufacturer (LLL) came out with these see through garments and exposed the farce. There was a mass uproar or so the blogsphere / media would have you believe. So the manufacturer pulled them - the offending pants that is. Now we have naked yogis in search of pants...