Guest Post by Dave Collum
Peak Prosperity Publishing Note: We are publishing the full 2023 Year In Review in two parts (to help web browsers with the quantity of content). For those who just can’t wait and need to read the whole thing right away… Dig in! We will also be republishing a subsection each day (of the exact same content) in bite-sized chunks over the next 7 days. Those subsections will each have their own comment section to facilitate conversations focused on that particular content. Given the length and wide-ranging content within Dave’s YIR, we think comments on a per-section basis will be much more manageable, but proceed as you wish. Part 2 can be found HERE. The PDF download is available HERE.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
~ Mark Twain
This is my 14th Year in Review, and they are getting very hard to write. I am grateful to Peak Prosperity for providing this opportunity to hang myself. They began as a summary of my investments and a few comments about what I was pondering for some friends at the Prudent Bear chat board and have morphed into a beast that has tipped the scales at over 300 pages on a big year. I think the most epic was 2021 in which I wrote about rising authoritarianism.1 I had a goal—a plot rattling in my head—that had to be finished. Last year had three parts in which the final section on Covid and the lockdowns was roughed out but never uploaded. I am not sure whether I was Covid-saturated or I perceived that the world had had enough, but I just buried it in a shallow grave with other victims of Fauci. This year is at risk of the same thing happening.
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