I sure am intimidated. They are either models or athletes. Here is a picture of one of her good friends. She is a multi-World champion (my paddleboard coach as well) and her muscles have muscles. She squats and deadlifts more weight than I. I keep my top on around her.
There are currently huge profit margins in beef. And milk. But this too shall change.
Wow, now Africa has a better hunter firearm policy than MA. I looked at the requirements for Non-resident firearm ID card, pretty onerous and not worth the trouble seeing a hunter one can go somewhere else.
Which is why the plan worked. The administration has to many rats in the wood pile…….
There’s hunting in Massachusetts? Who knew? Luckily for me, Massachusetts isn’t on my bucket list.
Evidently there is some pretty good waterfowling in Mass. especially for sea ducks and Atlantic brant. But they easily obtained elsewhere. For me it was Maine and New Jersey.
Realistically, some of these costs are not going to go down significantly, if at all, regardless of who is President. Majority of cost increases were during the first couple of years of the administration (as can be seen from yearly inflation numbers). Inflation for the last 12 months have been at 2.5% (2.1% in 2020).
| Thomas Reed, senior US national security official who later became Secretary of the Air Force, claims in his book “At The Abyss” that the United States allowed the USSR to steal pipeline control software from a Canadian company. This software included a Trojan Horse that caused a major explosion of the Trans-Siberian gas pipeline in June, 1982. The Trojan ran during a pressure test on the pipeline but doubled the usual pressure, causing the explosion. (#1, #2) “In order to disrupt the Soviet gas supply, its hard currency earnings from the West, and the internal Russian economy, the pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines, and valves was programmed to go haywire, after a decent interval, to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to pipeline joints and welds,” Reed writes. (#3) The scheme to plant bugs in Soviet software was masterminded by Gus Weiss, who at the time was on the National Security Council and who died last year. Soviet agents had been so keen to acquire US technology, they didn’t question its provenance. (#4) Russian newspaper sources deny the report, saying an explosion did take place, but it was caused by poor construction, not by planted software. “What the Americans have written is rubbish,” said Vasily Pchelintsev, who in 1982 headed the KGB office in the Tyumen region, the likely site of the explosion described in the book.” The software sabotage had two effects, explains Reed. The first was economic. By creating an explosion with the power of a three kiloton nuclear weapon, the US disrupted supplies of gas and consequential foreign currency earnings. But the project also had important psychological advantages in the battle between the two superpowers. “By implication, every cell of the Soviet leviathan might be infected,” Reed writes. “They had no way of knowing which equipment was sound, which was bogus. All was suspect, which was the intended endgame for the entire operation.” |
Phil during good times, prices can be contracted to hedge against a severely downturn. Some do (we do) and a lot don't. That is much more about personal choice than size or scale. Although with size and scale come larger risk thus more incentive to hedge. Higher debt level also pushes one to hedge more... but again it is a choice some choose not to participate in. It does have additional cost in the form of brokerage fees, margin calls or fees to cover those, and interest on money tied up. But this is NOT size specific. If you do not have enough scale to fill a contract. There are co-ops and other companies who will facilitate smaller trades or even facilitate direct forward contracting. Your example is a perfect reason to hedge. If prices are good and you are investing based on that, especially borrowing, why would you not protect margins to ensure success?
The infrastructure that went away needed to.. it was largely Civil War to 1950's era technology. I love the look of the old hip roof barns but they are obsolete. Would you suggest Civil War era medical tools be used as the primary tools in health care today? 
