The best lack all conviction,
Yeats
The Mighty US Dollar: Why It’s the Reserve Currency of the World
The US dollar has come a long way since its introduction in 1792. Over time, it evolved into the world’s reserve currency, holding the highest level of confidence and liquidity, surpassing all other currencies in circulation. In times of geopolitical turmoil, and a...
The Good News
To conquer fear...
In Memoriam: Elda Rizzotti
On April 9th my mother passed away at the age of ninety of heart failure. She expired her last breath in a Montreal hospital after being transferred from her senior care facility. She felt lost and alone during the last days of her life. None of her children could...
The Only Thing We have to Fear Is Fear Itself
The title of this post is a quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inaugural speech. He was the 32nd president of the USA from 1933 until his death in 1945, spanning the depths of the Great Depression to the end of the WWII. Fear is the contagious disease we need to fight...
Thanksgiving: A Civil Religious Celebration
In a cultural environment where anything goes, the use of the words religion/religious makes people uneasy. The reason is that a majority of people believe that we live in a predominantly secular culture without the need of any moral constraints or guidelines. This...
The feeling we call religious
And it is a strange thing that most of the feeling we call religious, most of the mystical out-crying which is one of the most prized and used and desired reactions of our species, is really the understanding and the attempt to say that man is related to the whole...
If you are not a liberal at 25, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at 35 you have no brain.
According to quoteinvestigator.com there is no consensus on who wrote the above saying: Among many guesses include: Edmund Burke, Victor Hugo, George Bernard Shaw, Benjamin Disraeli, and Winston Churchill... However, it seems likely that Edmund Burke is the author....
Religion and spirituality
Religion is when I say church and what comes to mind is a physical building like a temple, synagogue, mosque or any other place of worship. Religion is what relates to the visible world like sacred shrines and the visible representatives of a belief system like the...
Tim Berners-Lee: We must regulate tech firms to prevent ‘weaponised’ web.
"The inventor of the world wide web warns over concentration of power among a few companies ‘controlling which ideas are shared’. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has called for large technology firms to be regulated to prevent the web from...
