I’ll admit, I’m often fond of impatiently shouting out from the back of a slow moving line to a store cashier who is patiently trying to help a customer with a problem credit card… “hey, do you still take cash?” Heh heh heh. Head’s turn. The person holding up the line gets embarrassed. Yes, sometimes ya gotta be the smart ass to make the point. And despite PayPal’s CEO, Dan Schulman insisting, “the real war is the war on cash”,…
It seems that in Flea Market Land, everyone’s buying criteria and willingness to exploit, or not exploit, is different. Over twenty years ago as I was out and about on a Saturday morning cruising yard sales for vintage vinyl, a yard sale seller asked me if I’d heard a recent radio broadcast of a rock station DJ interviewing a big time, east coast record dealer about his best vinyl score. That sounded interesting, “Do tell!” Apparently, the big shot was…
We can’t make America great again until we Make America FAIR Again. And we can’t make America Fair for All, let alone restore it to greatness, unless we INVEST in it! Unless we FUND it! Why do I have to do all the friggin thinkin ‘round here??!! (And then along comes the Corona Economic Shock Treatment. Well, perhaps this is an opportunity for this latest strain of Quantative Easing to prove itself. Perhaps it’s the last chance. As I was…