Happy New Year
12th Night (Epiphany), too.
In my day job, I presented my 12th annual Investment Outlook today. A printed edition will follow. It’s an enormous job but one I enjoy. However, it prevented me from getting a lead piece for TBL done. So I’ll leave you with a meaty Totally Worth It and a Benediction and see you next week. Happy New Year.
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Totally Worth It
This song is pretty much perfect.
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“Between 6 and 7 percent of all the money earned by American Black men born in 1988 was earned by NFL and NBA players.” But wait, there’s more: “Kevin Durant’s annual income represented almost 1 percent of all the money earned by the more than 300,000 African American men born in 1988.”
“[T]he world's spider population, which itself weighs around 25 million tons, takes out between 400 and 800 million tons of prey each year.”
A new report out of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York estimates the aggregate impact of work from home to be 60 million reclaimed hours every day that otherwise would have been spent on commuting.
This is the coolest and most creative thing you’re likely to hear any time soon.
The TBL Spotify playlist, made up of the songs featured here, now includes nearly 250 songs and about 17 hours of great music. The TBL Christmas playlist is here. Whichever one you listen to, I urge you to listen in, sing along, and turn up the volume.
Benediction
Loreena McKennitt provides this week’s benediction.
To those of us prone to wander, to those who are broken, to those who flee and fight in fear – which is every last lost one of us – there is One who offers grace and hope. And may love have the last word. Now and forever.
Amen.
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Issue 136 (January 6, 2023)