Category: Politics, Religion & Money

The Trusty Trustee

I thought I was done five years ago managing my late parents’ estate, but it seems a trustee’s work is never done. This came from American Express to correct an error they made in my father’s account.

So that’s $0.16 each for myself and my five siblings, and I’ll keep the extra four cents for my fee. But uh, oh. There’s no such account as The Estate of George Pratt, and as there was no formal dissolution process for the trust, I don’t know what its legal status is. I vow to earn those four extra cents by devoting myself full-time to the resolution of this pressing financial matter!

Murdoch Mysteries

Trump attorney Joe Tacopina quits, and Matt Murdoch gets the nod, based on the argument he used in his courtroom defense of Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner. Justice is blind, and so is the defendant’s lawyer!

Daredevil #7, page 10, panel 3. Art by Wally Wood.

It looks like the judge’s word balloon was originally going to be in the lower, left corner.

Urban Doom Loop?

Will post-COVID New York City and San Francisco end the 21st century as ghost towns? Or will they be transformed from centers of commerce into mixed-use living space?

I chuckle when the current interest rates are called “too high.” This attitude is the result of banks and businesses being addicted to the free money that followed the Great Recession. My first mortgage, in early 1988, was for 10.125%.

In my opinion the Fed should leave everything as it is. Let the markets adjust to the long-overdue hike in rates and the end of quantitative easing. Once again I point to Frontline’s “Age of Easy Money” from a year ago. Where’s the recession that so many were predicting from the higher interest rates?