Shoot, I almost went over there earlier after the kids soccer games but decided to come home and mow instead since the grass is growing at an insane rate. Otherwise I could have reported live the situation with the smoke! Fun fact, Lake Goodwin and Lake Shoecraft are joined by a canal that runs under West Lake Goodwin Road. As a kid I would take my fishing boat through there to fish Shoecraft as well. It dries up in the summer though so you have to go through early in the spring and it’s still only about a foot deep. I always thought it was the coolest thing ever going under the road and go to a different lake without even getting out of the boat!

Yeah. In reality, knocking down the Cascades may not work out well for us in Montana. Maybe we should replace them with some smaller 1km balls instead.

Are you serious here? Seems like exactly the same thing happening on both sides. The traitors on our side are people that haven't floated my boat for a very long time if they ever did anyway.

Man she is scary!

Me pithy??? Nahhhhhhh….. I’m not saying hyperinflation is in and of itself a good thing. It’s absolutely not. It can however be an excellent trigger for the kind of forced choice scenarios the button pushers have been faced with over the last two and a half years. The type that in the long run will lead to a more stable economic landscape. Considering the sugar high, frenzied QE efforts of the GR “recovery” and the Fed’s steady diet of gobbling up MBS, the last couple years have been a breath of fresh air. It was only going to change via forced choice. That much became very apparent even prior to the pandemic. The question now becomes how do we recalibrate next year as we edge closer and closer to what I believe will be a mild to maybe moderate recession. Do we erase the progress we’ve made in the face of untenable price hikes?