I have to wonder about the seriousness of those in Congress who imagine themselves to have an actual response to the climate change problem, yet who actually support Senate Bill 1169, the "Strategic Competition Act."
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso
Rules, regulations and the price of bread are part of our Anglo/Saxon legal traditions. Laws formulated to control the price of bread and limit the profit of baker appeared during the time of of King John, thirteen years prior to the Magna Carta. In 1266 The Assize of Bread and Ale regulated the price, weight and quality of the bread and beer manufactured and sold in towns, villages and hamlets in high medieval England. The law was modified periodically and not replaced until 1863.
Evening all, and wishing you a pleasingly patterned weekend.
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U.S. existing home sales extend decline; house prices race to record high
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. home sales fell for a third straight month in April as an acute shortage of properties drove prices to a record high./snip/
Children of Ash and Elm (2020) is a new book published by professor of archaeology at the University of Uppsala, Neil Price. The book is new in its approach to telling the story of the Viking Age in the sense that Price is actually narrating an experience for the reader, more so than simply describing the Viking Age. Price uses Nordic mythology as a narrative frame for explaining the complex societies in Scandinavia in the period 750–1050 AD. This is also what the title hints at: the names Ash and Elm are the English translations of Askr and Embla, the first human beings that the gods created according to Old Norse mythology. Whether Askr and Embla actually mean “Ash” and “Elm,” now that’s another story.
It has been fifty years since Nixon took the USD off the gold standard. He had to because we printed so much money to pay for the Vietnam war, we didn't have the gold to cover the currency which had been issued. Oil prices soared in '73 when the US supported Israel in the Arab-Israeli war, and the Saudi's led a US oil embargo. However, in '75 Kissinger cut a deal with the Saudis to only sell their oil in USD. Additionally, Saudi and OPEC oil profits would be recycled back into the U.S. by buying U.S. assets (Treasuries, Stocks, Real Estate etc.) and U.S. weaponry. And so the petrodollar was created... and anyone who challenges this system faces the wrath of the US.
