There are much, much worse things than knowingly losing 1 or 2 pct per yr to real asset inflation – like losing 40 to 60 pct in a month on the relatively “sensible” SP 500 (which fell by half in 2009 and took yrs to be reflated by QE/Fed Fraud 1.0). Longer term, research m...
These and others recognize the dilemmas we utopian writers of sci-fi and speculative fiction face: “The necessity for works of fiction to be dramatic and the fact that workable plots require conflict inhibit the use of sf to display utopian schemes.” I face this problem in my currentseries....
Testosterone has changed a lot of things about me, both mental and physical, but perhaps one of the biggest changes was losing the ability to cry. I used to cry very easily but after being on testosterone for a while, I essentially lost the ability to cry. This shift made me realize ho...
On Kupala Night, Dymitr arrives in Chicago’s monstrous, magical underworld with a perilous mission: pick the mythical fern flower and offer it to a cursed creature in exchange for help finding the legendary witch Baba Jaga. Ala is a fear-eating zmora afflicted with a bloodline curse that’s...
The fear of losing that money is too great. To play the long-term futures market it is easier to roll your money, sell January and buy February. Sure, oil might go to $200, but if there is a serious correction of the economy it could go to $10 (as an example only of a ...
She will not be reformed or reeducated or domesticated, and even the girls who are her fellow prisoners fear the trouble that Malley brings in her rebellious wake. The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle by Christina Uss. Bicycle, a foundling who has grown up at the Mostly Silent monastery...
Amid the whir of city life, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she’s hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens. Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everything—not just her own past, and Dev, ...