Thanks Gang
This might become a regular thing.
As those of you who just received the last experiment this week in Stack Stories know, this has been a busy week. And I’ve enjoyed the TSA lines in person. Chicago at the Institute of Politics for the start of the week and Harvard to hear Ken Burns and visit my friends at the Shorenstein center.1
Stack Stories has been rewarding and incredibly time consuming. I am not sure what will come of the experiment. I appreciate the feedback and I’d like to find a way to continue experimenting with throwing the net as wide as possible and putting things in context and the right order. But unless it can take me less than 45 minutes to remind myself of the inverse relationship between price and yield with bonds and why that matters, I may be unable to do this and my other work. Also, the entries have a heavier voice than I’d like (other than the footnotes) and they’re a little too long. But, as Mark Twain didn’t say, “If I had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter.”2
I am so grateful you are all reading and supporting this work.
Anne tells me there is a pink sky out there so I must go see.3
Two elite colleges in one week. I am part of the problem. I sought forgiveness last week.
Twain wrote, “I didn’t have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one,” but the originator of this was Blaise Pascal.
Pink Sky is not the name of a drink. Tonight I’m drinking Light Sweet Crude.
It’s obvious how much effort you are putting into providing us with actual factual news. I appreciate it more than I’m able to express. Bless you John Dickerson
This “experiment” would have played well in your Reporter’s Notebook 30 minutes. Oh well, it definitely has value and should continue in some form. Monday will come soon enough, so enjoy the pink sky.