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2015 Year In Review<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\u201cTo the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious, but the stupid have an answer for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

~Edward Abbey<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am penning my seventh \u201cYear in Review.\u201d These summaries began exclusively for myself, evolved into a sort of holiday cheer for a couple hundred e-quaintances with whom I had been affiliating since my earliest days as a market bear in the late \u201990s, and metastasized into the Tower of Babble\u2014longer than a Ken Burns miniseries\u2014summarizing the human follies that capture my attention each year.1\u20137<\/sup>\u00a0Jim Rickards kindly called it \u201ca perfect combination of Mel Brooks, Erwin Schrodinger & Howard Beale.\u201d I wade through the year\u2019s most extreme lunacies as well as a few special topics while trying to find the overarching themes. I love conspiracy theories and detest detractors who belittle those trying to sort out fact from fiction in a propaganda-rich world. My sources are eclectic, but I give a huge hat tip to sites like\u00a0Peak Prosperity<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Zerohedge<\/a>. If half of what they say is right, the world is a very weird place.<\/p>\n

\u201cNinety percent of everything you read or hear is crap.\u201d<\/p>\n

~Sturgeon\u2019s Law<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe amount of time you waste online doubles every 18 months.\u201d<\/p>\n

~Collum\u2019s Law<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In an e-mail in early April, I told a friend and Master of the Universe that I wasn\u2019t grasping the year\u2019s theme. He assured me the year was young, but I had a deeper angst. I eventually realized that I had ascended Mount Stupid (Figure 1) and may be heading down The Far Side. Whether we are talking Greece, the Middle East, monetary policy, bonds, domestic politics, or sex changes, I am baffled by it all. Maybe life in the third millennium is like a sci-fi movie: it doesn\u2019t have to make any sense.<\/p>\n

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