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Somewhere In My Memory—John Williams

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Candles in the window Shadows painting the ceiling Gazing at the fire glow Feeling that gingerbread feeling Precious moments Special people Happy faces I can see Somewhere in my mem'ry Christmas joys all around me Living in my mem'ry All of the music All of the magic All of the fam'ly home here with me

The Dubliners—Dublin in the Rare Old Times

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[Chorus:] Ring a ring a rosie, as the light declines I'll remember Dublin city, in the rare ould times Raised on songs & stories, heroes of renown The passing tales & glories, that once was Dublin town The hallowed halls & houses, the haunting childrens' rhymes That once was Dublin city, in the rare ould times [Chorus] My name it is Sean Dempsey, as Dublin as could be Born hard & late in Pimlico, in a house that's ceased to be By trade I was a cooper, lost out to redundancy Like my house that fell to progress, my trade's a memory & I courted Peggy Dignan, as pretty as you please A rogue & a child of Mary, from the rebel Liberties I lost her to a student chap, with a skin as black as coal When he took her off to Birmingham, she took away my soul [Chorus] The years have made me bitter, the gargle dims me brain Cause Dublin keeps on changing, & nothing seems the same The Pillar & the Met have gone, the Royal long since pulled down As the gre...

Civic Honesty Around the Globe

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In Figure 1, share of wallets reported in the NoMoney and Money conditions, by country: [1] (Left)  Share of wallets reported in NoMoney (US$0) and Money (US$13.45) conditions, by country. The amount of money in the wallet is adjusted according to each country’s purchasing power.  (Right)  Average difference between Money and NoMoney conditions across quartiles based on absolute reporting rates in the NoMoney condition.  Error bars represent standard errors of the mean. References Civic honesty around the globe

Mari Boine—a Norwegian Singer

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Mari Boine (born Mari Boine Persen, 8 November 1956) is a Norwegian singer. She combined traditional yodeling folk music, or yoik, with rock.

Side-by-Side View of S&P 500 ETF and Fear&Greed Index

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SPDR S&P 500 ETF ( SPY ) Fear & Greed Index ( CNN )

What is the name of money?

Money has different names! In temple or church, it's called donation . In school, it's fee . In marriage, it's called dowry . In divorce, alimony . When you owe someone, it's debt . When you pay the government, it's tax . In court, it's fines . Civil servant retirees, it's pension . Employer to workers, it's salary . Master to subordinates, it's wages . To children, it's allowance . When you borrow from bank, it's loan . When you offer after a good service. it's tips . To kidnappers, it's ransom . Illegally received in the name of service, it's bribe . The question is, "when a husband gives to his wife,what do we call it? ANSWER:

Gold Investment— All Things Considered

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Spotlight on Metals, with Rick Rule   (YouTube link ) At an Hedgeye interview, Jurrien Timmer —Director of Global Macro at Fidelity Investments—stated that: Gold has become a bond proxy . We've all seen the chart of the negative yielding debt overlaid against the price of gold. They're perfectly correlated. Gold is a play on real rates , probably more than anything else. If you look at the TIPs yield it’s a very strong inverse correlation over the last 10 years or so. I'm convinced that over the next 10 years as this demographic tsunami sweeps around the most of the world I think yields will stay low . When you combine demographics with debt, that’s the two headed monster. We're at $15 trillion in negative yielding debt. Warren Buffett always liked to dis gold because it doesn’t have a yield. In a negative yielding world, a zero yield is a high yielding asset all of a sudden. So yes, I like gold from that perspective. 10 Influencers As a matter of fac...