Author: <span>Howard</span>

WSJ on “Several Million Still Missing from the workforce.”

not too difficult to understand. It’s a labor supply chain problem really. 1) COVID pushed around the already tight workforce. 2) Plenty of money sloshing around from 10 year + bull market, strong housing gains and stimulus to companies and people. 3) No one likes doing the crummy, labor intensive work, if they do not…


WSJ _ The ‘Hell or High Water Clause’ article regarding equipment leasing.

I loved the Tom Wait’s reference. “The large print giveth and the fine print taketh away” 1) As part of a group that now leases equipment and helps finance people and small business …. It is incredibly lopsided in our favor and wickedly profitable, most of the time. 2) Lending or leasing money to people…


This hung in the kitchen at 1343 Farmington ave. West Hartford. It hung over the trash can, and since emptying the trash was my job. I read that alot.


AJ, Big Bet, Ethel and us …


Comment to NYT on “wealth from nothing in america” isn’t always a pleasant story.

A little fortunate by birth, opportunistic, hardworking and diligent, a self serving, or self preserving personality, to move himself forward. (American Traits.) Willing to compromise, to see opportunity, to cross an ocean by age 20 and then back. To find himself in the favor of local, then regional government. A British government. Then an American…


A ramble on Burns and Franklin.

I thought I knew Ben Franklin, but I was wrong. The documentary told 2 stories that were in conflict the entire time. I really had to watch parts of it twice, before I could accept him. In many ways, he is no more than an selfish opportunist, in other ways a pragmatist who tries to…


Arlo & Janis – they were a mirror.


When wood meets chainsaw and art is made. Thank Robbie.


April 2, 2022 – I have been home for a week.

Here are a few observations – Being home from Florida at the end of march isn’t that smart, too cold and gray. Being in the house you own, keeps you busier than in the one you rent. Being closer to friends and family is quite nice. I do not exercise regularly here for some reason….


H’s NSA for NSQ – Does one need a Muse for creativity ?

The Howard Theories has already done this one. There are Muse’s everywhere… My life is the Muse. I wanted a good story … We just want everyone to have a good story, so live it. It really is that easy. Furthermore – it is not just creative thinking, that is too simplistic. You will “find…