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Joy To The World
Plainly, this'll be a slow week for the macro-market crowd.
It's Christmas, which means the entire Western world will stop for a day and a half to celebrate the Nativity, an event which almost certainly didn't happen on December 25, and which absolutely wasn't a "virgin birth." (In vitro fertilization was hard to come by in those days. Then, as now, a lot of health plans didn't cover it, and if Joseph and Mary were too poor to offer a lamb, it's probably safe to say they didn't have the wherewi
Merry Christmas
Hosanna!
Absolutely ridiculous. The holiday, I mean. You celebrate the birth of God, who chose to come to the world as a poor man, whose parents couldn’t give birth to him in a decent place and who specifically said rich people mostly do not go to heaven. You celebrate by spending enough money to save hundreds of people from starvation on useless gifts. Luther would have said it comes straight from the devil, much like the prosperity gospel. I tried that thing of giving donations to charity as gifts once. Will not do it again, seeing the reaction once was enough. I guess it really shows what people really believe in, huh.
Merry Christmas and thank you for a year of learning and enjoyment.
Happy Winter Solstice, or as it is more commonly known “The Middle of Winter”.