Gold is up 22% over the last year, better than stocks 17% and bonds 3%. And yet most who will read this are up to their eyeballs in stocks & bonds and don't hold a lick of gold.

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America, the Prologue to What’s Possible. Whitman’s America. D-day’s America. America on the Moon. America of the Founding Fathers. Immigrants’ America. Americans’ America. To all about to embark on a quest: the time is now. The place is America. 3/

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That even *the idea* of America might exist, let alone the real country, still amazes me every week. 2/

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I am on my way to my beloved home city and to my beloved ailing parents. But of course I am thinking of my adoptive country. With all its problems and contradictions, this is still is the best country for me, and the people in it are mine as much the ones I grew up with. 1/

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RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

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