By Paul Sankey
Published on May 7, 2021 at 8:44 AM
A salesman knocks on a door, answered by a 12-year-old boy wearing slippers, an oversized silk dressing gown, smoking a fat cigar in one hand, a huge snifter of brandy in the other. Stunned, the salesman asks “Are your parents in?” The boy replies “What the fk do you think?” Americans love T shirts. They have the constitutional right to bare arms. Wife: “You need to do more chores around the house.” Husband: “Can we […]
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By Paul Sankey
Published on April 22, 2021 at 8:25 AM
Comparative advantage in ideas. Under the fundamental trade principle of comparative advantage (Ricardo, 1817), if you have two goods, and I have two services, we trade; to have one good and service each, more efficiently produced for each. Under a theory of trade of ideas, If we have two ideas each, and we trade; we each have four ideas. THAT’S RIGHT FOLKS, HAPPY HOUR IS BACK, TONIGHT AT 5PM. Muttering to myself about the latest […]
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By Paul Sankey
Published on April 20, 2021 at 8:42 AM
Staring at the blinking red and green Bloomberg ticks, alone in a home office, bombarded with Bitcoin headlines, Gamestop headlines, etc etc, it had become very difficult to make out the wood from the trees regarding the oil and energy call. I went on a road trip. I’m back. As suspected, the oils and energy have been tricky – notably solar has been ugly for the past month and year to date, albeit off a […]
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