Tag: wisdom

  • CONSIDER THIS: Celtic Mysticism Meets Valentine’s Day

    CONSIDER THIS: Celtic Mysticism Meets Valentine’s Day

    Oh, marvellous. Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, the fourteenth of February, twenty twenty-six. The nation is already knee-deep in the annual ritual of manufactured affection. There’s pink packaging everywhere and the faint whiff of desperation lingers. And now, because apparently one layer of cynicism isn’t enough, we’re adding this so-called Celtic mysticism. It’s as if it’s the missing ingredient that turns a cynical cash-grab into something profound and ancient. How delightfully Welsh of us. We can’t resist a bit of mythic bollocks to make the whole thing feel less embarrassing.

    Celtic mysticism on Valentine’s Day.

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  • The Case for a Global Wealth Registry: Transparency Matters

    The Case for a Global Wealth Registry: Transparency Matters

    Introduction

    If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper-middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had it.

    Warren Buffett[1]

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