Trump was President during the last two. Since he’s so addicted to “winning“, maybe he can give us a new record length of shutdown! May I suggest a decade?
Make a New Record!
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New Quarter. No Feds.
Well, here we are. For whatever it’s worth, the federal government is so-called shut down. I say so-called because all the muck that it creates is still there: the IRS. Political discord. Audits. Incompetent leadership. Wars. Waste. Fraud. Taxes. But, from the strictest technical sense, it is “shut down.” I say let the entire thing vanish. None of us would be any worse off, except for the vastly improved sums of money we “get” to keep.
Not that it’s scaring anyone. Indeed, fear has become a thing of the past, as the /VX futures show over the past half year.
Thumbs Up and Down
I don’t know where things stand with the government shutdown (although you know my strident views on it). It’s interesting to know that the federal government is the LEAST loved entity among the dozens shown here, with Ol’ Farmer Brown being at the romantic top, harkening back to our agrarian past.
Government Shutdown Odds
Place your bets! (I tried to embed it, but the damned thing didn’t work……..)
H1-B Hives
The topic of H1-B visas is very much in the news, so I wanted to chime in.
The picture below is from the year 2000 or thereabouts. It is the entire staff of my little company Prophet, which I started in 1992 with a war chest of $3,000. Everyone picture here is ‘mericuhn with two exceptions: the chaps wearing eyeglasses (center of picture and extreme left).
