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December 31, 2025, Issue 18 Happy New Year As we head bravely into 2026, let’s take a quick peek at 2025 and what is now in our rear view mirror. We confirmed that the world is a crazy place. War continues to rage in Russia/Ukraine. War stopped (sort of?) in Gaza/Israel. Tariffs came in (illegally?),…
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December 22, 2025, Issue 17 The Apology Section Sometimes life gets in the way of your best-laid plans. I was inspired to run a few miles yesterday in training for a 10K in May. Worn and tired, I felt writer’s block and kept putting off the creation of this letter. Now, I fully realize that…
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December 14, 2025, Issue 16 The Sad Banality of Antisemitism This morning we woke to the news of another terror attack on Jews, this time in a seaside suburb of Sydney, Australia. Jews had gathered at an event organized by the local Chabad to celebrate the first day of Chanukkah. As of this writing 16…
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Trade Alert – December 9, 2025 PTON – Peloton shares have performed poorly since our initial purchase, hitting $6.34 in trading on December 8th. Today we are seeing a bit of a rebound at $6.75. Much has been made of the price increase for the Peloton service by about $6 per month. While this will…
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December 7, 2025, Issue 15 The future of movies About 20 years ago, Netflix was a startup company that would deliver their subscribers DVDs through the mail. You could keep the movie as long as you wanted then return it with no late fees. Blockbuster Video was the big competition at the time, and never…
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Trade Alert Leggett and Platt (LEG) this morning received an unsolicited bid for all of the outstanding shares of the company. The bid is valued at $12 per share or about a 20% premium over Friday’s close. With the shares currently at $11.75 I simply do not see much more upside potential. However, if the…
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November 30, 2025, Issue 14 Thankful and Grateful We sat down for Thanksgiving dinner Thursday evening surrounded by family. As I age, I find it difficult to express how much it means to look around the table and see 4 adult children, all on their paths to greatness. (A fifth was with us two weeks…
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November 30, 2025, Issue 14 Thankful and Grateful We sat down for Thanksgiving dinner Thursday evening surrounded by family. As I age, I find it difficult to express how much it means to look around the table and see 4 adult children, all on their paths to greatness. (A fifth was with us two weeks…
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November 22, 2025, Issue 12 Life is Fragile This week I was reminded yet again of life’s fragility. At the ripe age of 59, this was, of course, not the first person I have known to pass. In fact, this man was not a relation, and not someone I knew well at all. However, people…
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