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“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.” ― The House at Pooh Corner by A.A Milne” 

Writers that can consistently and frequently write new and interesting pieces always impress me.  I am pretty thrilled if I have what I consider to be one new and unique thought a month.  Then have the luck to capture that fleeting moment down in writing. And, that generally turns into the Winnie the Pooh moment described above. 

That previous paragraph may be an awkward way of explaining why I have been fairly quiet these days, on top of just being busy at work.

For similar reasons, reading was a bit off this month – although I did notch some easy reads.

Correct, I am a touch out of order on the Travis Mcgee series, but that does not seem to matter too much.

Here are my most influential reads for the month – in no particular order:

1. You’re not good at this. – “Zero percent interest rates plus fiscal and monetary stimulus with housing up 40% and stocks at an all-time high was a ridiculous policy.”
2. Entering the Superbubble’s Final Act – “The current superbubble features the most dangerous mix of these factors in modern times: all three major asset classes – housing, stocks, and bonds – were critically historically overvalued at the end of last year.”
3. A Housing Bubble and Kim Kardashian: More Troubling News for Markets – “Pumped up by Federal Reserve expansionary policies, the public’s wealth in equities and residential real estate has ballooned, relative to the economy, even faster and more furiously than during the housing bubble of the 2000s and the dot-com daffiness of the 1990s.”
4. Three Things I Think I Think – It’s Breaking – “At 7% the math is totally broken. “
5. Grim (equity) tidings – “A Fed paper says tax and interest rates can’t fall much further, and that bodes poorly for stocks.”
6. Quantitative Tightening Is About to Ramp Up. What It Means for Markets. – “Market pricing is determined by supply and demand, and in the coming years, there is going to be a tremendous supply of Treasuries coming from two sources.”
7. Seeing Red – “Is China our enemy or competitor? The answer is yes.”
8.  Would You Still Buy A Tesla? – “I used to be a fan of Elon Musk, no longer. The guy is irrational, and he believes the rules don’t apply to him. And he acts like he’s the only one who owns the truth, who can move us into the future, and that’s just hogwash.”
9. Pillow fight – “That’s like going to a Dallas Cowboys football game at AT&T Stadium, seeing 80,000 fans dressed in silver and blue with stars painted on their faces, all cheering wildly when the Cowboys score. Then, based on that experience, determining everyone across the nation is a rabid Cowboys fan and the 82,500 people at MetLife Stadium cheering for the Giants simply just can’t be real.”
10. One Of The Smartest Things Anyone Has Ever Said To Me – ” I was finished with my Righteous Indignation phase and had settled more into a phase I would maybe call Please Just Don’t Hit Me With Your Car.”

Note: This is based on when I read the article, not necessarily when it was first published.  Unfortunately, my backlog of things I would like to read always seems to dwarf the amount of time I can devote to reading.

Top clicks across the site last month:

1. Financial Model vs. Operating Model
2. Cash
3. Solamere Trail Loop
4. EBITDA Is Not A Good Proxy For Cash Flow
5. Excel Tips: Football Field Chart

Updated stats:

	Read Articles	Books
January	89	1
February	110	0
March	102	3
April	103	2
May	134	3
June	74	0
July	82	2
August	112	7
September	72	4
October
November
December
Total	878	22