Yoda: We, old-timers, remember it all. Maybe why they want us dead..

Alert reader writes in: “Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment,. The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, “We didn’t have this ‘green thing’ back in my earlier days.” …

J. C. Cole: Gray Swans February 2021 #2 “Texas Freeze – Silver Squeeze”

American Gray Swans – February 2021 #2 Texas Freeze – Silver Squeeze! This is Houston, we have a problem! Holy crap, everything is frozen! Gray Swans are a series of events that could shut down America’s “Just in Time” delivery system (our supply chain) which will lead to a famine. Oh look, Texas is shut …

Art Kleiner: The Felt-Fair Economy and the Future of Economic Confidence

THE FELT-FAIR ECONOMY AND THE FUTURE OF ECONOMIC CONFIDENCE By Art Kleiner Introduction In the 1940s, Elliott Jaques – an eminent and original organizational theorist, and the person who coined the terms “corporate culture” and “midlife crisis” – introduced a management metric he called “felt-fair pay.” He interviewed thousands of employees at hierarchical organizations around …

Answers on OSINT for India 36: Where Should the Open Source Agency Reside within a National Security Structure?

Sir, You have agreed with BGen James Cox, RN CA, with respect to the need for a separate Open Source Agency equivalent to the separate agencies for signals, imagery, and human intelligence. Given the nature of this agency as a direct support element to decision-makers including the national legislature and domestic customers including governors and …