Red Sox Go 3 for 10

Exclamation point.

Tuesday Tune-up

Chick Corea, "Armando's Rhumba"

Quote for the Week, October 27-November 2, 2013

Is it time to disappear?
Oh babe, can we just get out of here?
You and me love and no one near
Walk me to the edge of the world
Meet me at the edge of the world
I'm waiting at the edge of the world
--song by Over the Rhine

QE Is Destroying Wealth

"The failure of investors to learn from experience isn’t just an inconvenience – the constant misallocation of capital resulting from these speculative episodes is gradually destroying our nation’s economic potential for long-term growth and job creation. We measure our standard of living by the amount of output that an individual is able to command for a given amount of work. We measure our productivity by the amount that an individual is able to produce for a given amount of work. Over time, these two must go hand in hand. Policies that misallocate savings away from productive investment and toward unproductive speculation are the same policies that do long-term violence to our nation’s standard of living. Although the members of the Federal Reserve undoubtedly mean well, their actions are at the center of the assault."

--John Hussman, weekly market commentary (10-21-13)

Tuesday Tune-up

André Rieu, "The Emperor Waltz"

Quote for the Week, October 20-26, 2013

That field, never shall I forget it.  From a selfish point of view it would be so much easier to die than to see all that suffering.
--William Potwin Morgan, officer in the American Expeditionary Forces, following the Battle of Soissons, July 1918

Tuesday Tune-up

Lucy Schwartz, "Gravity"

Grown Men Behaving Deliriously

Watch the dugout empty.

Quote for the Week, October 13-19, 2013

The future is already here--it's just not evenly distributed.
--William Gibson

Tift Merritt Performs in Ann Arbor

@billhine I think he told me this story in person! THANK YOU BOTH!
— Tift Merritt (@tiftmerritt) October 12, 2013

Tuesday Tune-up

Rachel Platten, "Nothing Ever Happens"

Quote for the Week, October 6-12, 2013

The United States is a country of amnesia.  It is obsessed with its future, and Europe is paralyzed by its past.
--George Friedman

Tuesday Tune-up

The Byrds, "Turn, Turn, Turn"