STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Friday, 31 March 2023

[Tansy_Gold]

4. One of the reasons for the QFTD

is to get people to wonder. Not just to think, but to wonder, which is a little different.

You and I, Warpy, are about the same age; we remember Berkeley and Mario Savio and the People's Park and all that. Some who are younger might not know the details and wonder, "Gee, why is this important? What does this have to do with whether I make money on the stock market today or not?" Well, it's all connected.

I was reading a bit about Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year a week or so ago as a possible source for a quote. He was only five years old at the time of the Plague, and very likely made up much of what he wrote as "a journal." It was published in 1722, almost exactly three centuries before our own "plague years." And it made me wonder how much of our own collective journal about that time will end up being just made up . . . .