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bluerosefox · 26 days
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Drake Siblings
Have I read this prompt somewhere or was this a fever dream from my bored mind.
What if, now hear me out.
What if we bring up Dana Winters-Drake (whose confirmed to at least be alive in the DC verse but no one knows where she actually is)
What if instead of when she had a mental breakdown and getting committed to an Bludhaven clinc she wandered away before anyone noticed and by the time Tim or anyone did notice a lot of stuff started happening at once in both Gotham and Bludhaven (Steph dying, The Bludhaven crisis, etc etc)
Tim still tries to find her though but even with best resources it was like she just disappeared into the wilderness and the stress of trying to handle more and more problems get worse.
So when out of the blue, a couple of years later, he gets a call from an unknown number. On his private, only for friends and family, phone and when he answers he meet with a young girls voice on the other end.
A very young, maybe six or seven, girl who informs him about his apparently half-brother Danny Drake-Fenton. And how she loves Danny so, so, so much but knows her home is dangerous for him to be in.
Tim is stunned and before he could question her, she says Danny is Dana and Jack's baby and that her parents had adopted him years ago and put Dana's stuff that the hospital had away for him to look at when he was older but she just had to fight off their lunch from eating her brother and she knows he needs a better place to live and so she snooped around and found Dana's diary and that she had to unscramble the nonsense Dana wrote and found Tim's number with the words 'tell him about his brother Danny' hidden in it. And-
But before she could keep rambling she hears Danny screaming "JAZZY THE MILK WENT BAD AGAIN AND HISSED AT ME!"
Tim is left with silence after hearing Jazz yell to Danny to lock the fridge and step out of the kitchen as she gets the bat.
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storiesbyaya · 5 years
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Story Of A Hero- 21
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[K@]- So we never got to have that convo! Sorry, bug
[Will]- I don’t think any of us expected Angel.
[K@]- Right? [K@]- Anyways dad said you were looking for the research data from the labs?
[Will]- Yes. I’m sorry, I know it’s likely not a subject you want to remember, but he said you were the only one who knew anything about it.
[K@]- Not everyone involved got arrested, so I’m sure some of that trash has backups or whatnot, but they’re absolutely not people I want anywhere near you [K@]- That aside, I had someone I trust encrypt all of the data. Kinda naive, I admit, but I just… wanted it all to go away. I wanted everything to do with what had happened to just go away.
[Will]-  You didn’t have it erased or destroyed or something?
[K@]- I wanted to, but Tess convinced me that maybe locking it all away where no one else could get to it would be better… [K@]-  Oh, hey! Ironic! Tess is Jazz’s big sister! Small world!
[Will]- Or small town? She did mention something about her sister being a hacker. I didn’t know you were friends.
[K@]-  Friends… Not really? We shared the same room, but I’ve only seen her at Toplook pro competitions from time to time since [K@]- Outside of that, she’s really reserved
[Will]- Well, I guess that makes it difficult to ask her about the files.
[K@]- Sorry kiddo. I’ll keep an eye out to see when the next tournament is. Maybe I can catch her?
William sighed. This was beginning to feel like a wild goose chase, and he was wondering if it was really worth it. Yes, he was curious about their research, but he didn’t even know what it contained. It could be useful, or it could be like Josef Mengel’s experiments. People die when you kill them! Or pit them against monsters! A notification popped up on his screen. A new episode of video game science? But it was Saturday, not Tuesday… Still, this episode was “The gravity of the situation- Science behind the gravity gun!”
Maybe it would be nice to get his mind off of all of this for a little while.
They’d finished biology and were moving on to physics in his science class, which was his field of expertise. Maybe he should bookmark this video and show it to Percy- He was very intelligent, but he just… learned differently than others, and using things that he liked, such as video games, often helped him learn even the most difficult of concepts. It was also unlikely that Percy knew the episode had come out today instead of on Tuesday (as a celebration for a follower milestone), so William picked up his phone. When he opened it, it was still on the screen for the conversation with his sister, and so the two threads in his brain connected. School. Data. Research.
[Will]- I can ask Jazz on Monday to tell her sister I need to talk to her?
[K@]- Oh, duh! That also works! Smarty pants!
[Will]- But… I imagine she would be cautious and not believe anyone who just comes up to her and says they have permission to look at the files, right?
[K@] True. Hang on. [K@]- William Kray has my (Katherine Kray, KX-073) express permission to acquire access to any of the “Kray Laboratory for Adex Research”’s data, in its raw, unencrypted form, from Tessa Peony Nichols (KX-072).
[??] Acknowledged!!!- PNϟ
William’s eyes widened in shock at the message. The icon was not the rounded picture of his sister he was used to seeing. It was an electric bolt in a lime green circle. Holding down on the message and looking at the message details revealed no contact number whatsoever. And then another message appeared, from the same icon.
[??]- Info- Unless you mention my name and ID again, no further monitoring of this conversation will occur. Thank you for your understanding! <3 -PNϟ [??]- See you soon, William. -PNϟ
[K@]- Wow. I didn’t think that would work. Neat.
[Will]- What? How does someone even do that?
[K@]- At this point, I’ve just stopped asking. But I can’t say I blame her, being paranoid to the point that she monitors everything for her full name… Then again, I’m not afraid of anyone coming after me anymore. [K@]- I can take them.
William almost expected Tess to come back and say that she wasn’t paranoid or something of the likes, but it seemed like, despite butting into their conversation, she was true to her word about not looking at their conversation any further. The two messages had vanished when he went back to look at them, and if it weren’t for Kat having seen and acknowledged them too, he would have wondered if they were ever there to begin with.
-x-x-x
Kat let out a snort. “That’s typical,” she said to her phone, and Wesley turned to her, confused. She saw the movement and, when she looked over at him, also saw the confusion. “Oh. Tess responds to her name like it’s some kind of bat symbol! She-” Kat went to show him the messages, but they were gone. She frowned at her phone. “Oh. She deleted them. But they were there. I guess she… didn’t want us tracing them? Kinda funny. I’m awful with tech.” “Yeah, but William isn’t… Though how she would know that, I wouldn’t know.” Kat shrugged, and put her phone back in her pocket, leaning back where she sat on the roof to look at the grey November sky. “We shared a room during the experiments… Talked about what we loved, what was waiting for us outside to stay sane. I told her about Will… How he’s always been such a smart kid. Proud big sister shit, you know? Or… Maybe not, you don’t have any other siblings. But-” “I get it,” Wesley reassured her. Yes, he had no siblings, but he’d spent so much time around Kat and William, and their family… It almost felt like he was apart of it, especially now that he even lived in their house. He’d been around Will long enough to feel pride. And he’d been around Kat enough to know that the forlorn expression in her eyes meant she was falling back into thoughts of the things she had been through. So he cleared his throat. “Oh hey, it’s Saturday. Doesn’t Cafe Nocturna have that 2 for 1 hot chocolate thing going on? Think we can get there using just these rooftops?” Her eyes seemed to light up, and she hopped up onto her feet, offering him a hand to stand up as well with a crooked smile. “Hell yeah I can! The question is… Can you, Rivers?” She exclaimed, loud and confident. “I mean, probably not as quickly as you can, but yes. Yes I can.” Her smile grew at his confidence. It was so nice to hear Wesley affirm that he could do something. She gave him a thumbs up, a proud gesture that could also be interpreted as a “Let’s go!”, and hopped to the next rooftop.
To her surprise, Wesley didn’t bridge the gap. Rather, he did the same, and supplemented his jump with an ice ramp. “That’s new,” she commented, holding a hand out so that he wouldn’t trip or continue forwards too far. “Yeah! I’ve been working on that. Less energy expended means more energy when I need it, right?” “Yup!” She agreed cheerfully.
They proceeded like this down the street, laughing all the while. It was like being children again and playing leapfrog, but with a goal in mind- Their favorite little cafe. They entered the building, but before they got in line, Wesley stopped them. “Hang on. I’m just going to check to make sure I can,” he said. Kat rolled her eyes. “Two for one means one’s free, and I have a-” Wesley’s expression interrupted her. His eyes were wide, and he was frantically checking his pockets. Both were entirely empty. “My… I dropped my phone. And- my wallet, and my keys, and” As he began to tense up and panic, Kat placed a hand on his shoulder, and led him out of the cafe. She knew that he hated having meltdowns in public places, especially ones that he visited so frequently. It took forever to convince him to come back to places. “Hey. We’ll find them. With any luck, they just… fell on one of the rooftops. Literally no one else goes there. I’ll check the rooftops. You can check the alleys, but I doubt they’ll be there. We can meet back together at street level where we started. Alright?” Wesley sighed shakily, trying to release the building anxiety.
He hoped Kat found them and not him. The moment she was gone, the anxiety built back up. A fall from even the shortest of buildings they had been to would have destroyed his phone. A phone that he needed. He was a jobless college student. A jobless college student who had just applied to a position to change that, but, without a phone, would never be able to hear back from that job, and his current joblessness meant that he did not have the funds to replace that phone. And he’d miss school, because he didn’t have an alarm clock, and no- He couldn’t ask Kero or Bayesh to get him an alarm clock, they were already doing so much for him and!
So lost in his thoughts, with eyes trained to the gravely alleys, Wesley did not notice the figure standing near him until it cleared its throat. A figure with familiar golden eyes. He jumped, nearly fell, but managed to stop himself. He stared at the figure, still struggling to see beneath the hood that obscured his face. At this point, Wesley wondered if it was magic that kept the other hidden. But then he moved, and Wesley’s eyes looked at the outstretched hands. His keys. His wallet. And his phone, with its little whale charm. “Why… Why do you have my stuff?” Wesley asked. The figure moved slowly, eyes trained on him. It felt like he could see right through him, and it made him shake… And then, his things were placed on the ground, and the golden eyed boy vanished in a puff of black smoke. Taken aback, Wesley blinked a few times, then sighed, retrieving his items. His keys were in order, all of his cards were there, and most importantly, his phone was not damaged. Well. Not damaged any more than it already was. He looked back to where the figure had stood just moments before.
What a weird stalker he had. He couldn’t figure out the other’s intentions. Was he good, finding his phone for him and encouraging him to stop the fire… or was he bad? Did he know that Wesley’s helping in that fire would cause his mom to snap? No. He couldn’t possibly have known that. Even he hadn’t known that.
With a sigh, he decided not to tell Kat about his encounter with the golden eyed boy. Instead, he informed her that he found his phone, but that it was somehow okay. She hadn’t gone far, so it wasn’t long before she was back, cheering and ruffling his hair. “They are two for one. I can cover it,” Kat reminded him. They sat down with their hot chocolates, enjoying the warmth, and letting the bad they’d felt melt away with the marshmallows within.
Their cups had been emptied, but they sat there anyways, watching the snow fall from the window, when Wesley’s phone rang. He picked it up, and after a few words, he excused himself out of the cafe. When he returned, he was beaming, and made his way to the counter, not to the seat he and Kat had been sharing. He came back with two cookies, one for each.
“Celebration cookies,” he informed her, “I just got an interview at the aquarium.”
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melindarowens · 6 years
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The Boys Are Back In Town… – Daily Pfennig
Chuck Butler’s: A Pfennig For Your Thoughts 
November 28, 2017  
Good day… And a Tom Terrific Tuesday to you!Man I’m still finding it difficult to get back into the saddle and the swing of things! But here I am, and hopefully things will get back to the way they were before my body decided to go all jiggy on me! The visiting nurse yesterday told me that she had read through my medical history the night before, and Kathy, said, “That probably took you all night to get through!” I laughed and said, ” I told you they call me lucky”!   I’m switching things up today and have my IPhone playing Pandora, Jazz holiday station, and I’m greeted with a jazzy version of Home for the Holidays…  
Well, I told you yesterday that the euro was already showing some slippage, not much, but some, and that it would be interesting to see what happened to the euro’s big rally while the PPT was on holiday last week, once they returned… And well, we saw it… The dollar rallied and the euro which at the end of the day on Friday was as high as 1.1948, was knocked down to 1.1900… UGH!   I could easily be saying damned PPT, but I won’t, no wait! I just did! HA!
And this morning, the euro has fallen below 1.19 in further buying of the dollar by somebody that doesn’t see the forest from the trees!  
Of course the dollar could have rallied on its own given the statement from the incoming new Fed Chairman, Jerome Powell, who had this to say… “Our aim is to sustain a strong jobs market with inflation moving gradually up toward our target. We expect interest rates to rise somewhat further and the size of our balance sheet to gradually shrink.”  
Boy, I don’t know that’s going to sit with President Trump, who has let everyone know for over a year now that he prefers low interest rates…  Last February, I wrote in an article about how the President then said that if rates get to 4% we’re screwed…  his words not mine, but I agree, given everything that has gone on and how the economy lives and breathes on  cheap credit.  I don’t want to get all negative already on my attempt to climb back into the saddle, so I’ll just leave that there… 
Besides, it’s far more fun to blame it all on the PPT, isn’t it?   Oh, and as far as my thought on the December rate hike, I’m still of the opinion that there won’t be one… Unless, like I explained in the past that outgoing Fed Chair, Janet Yellen, wants one last taste of being able to stick it to the President. 
Well, it appears that the CFPB (consumer financial protection bureau) is going to get new leadership here in the U.S.  I don’t even want to get started on how I feel about the CFPB, and how they weren’t really out to protect the consumer, but more about sticking it to financial institutions who were doing their best to provide products and services that investors wanted.   So, I’ll just leave that there, and hope that the new leader goes in a different direction!
In other things going on here in the U.S. that should be weighing down on the dollar… A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last week found that U.S. household debt hit another record high in the 3rd QTR of almost $13 Trillion. The largest increases came in student loans, auto debt and credit cards. 
I’ve been saying for months now that I believed the U.S. consumer had “tapped out”, but when it comes to adding to debt, they appear to have found a second wind!.  Now, there will be the smarty pants guys with the propeller head hats that will tell you that this data means nothing, because the population has grown…  Well, take  it with as many grains of salt that you wish, I’m just saying that in my opinion, this is bad…
And now, it’s Christmas shopping season, I would only think that the $13 Trillion will only go higher… And then January comes and the bills begin to show up in one’s mailbox and they get deep sixed, because there ain’t no way in hell they can pay them…   I shake my head and wonder if their parents ever sat them down and explained money, savings, spending, etc. to them… I would think not!  Oooh, I’ve gone deep and dark there, haven’t I?  I had better stop before I really turn dark…  But before I leave this thought…  
The Fed also reported that, as of September, 4.9% of outstanding household debt was in some stage of delinquency. More specifically, of the $630 billion of debt that is delinquent, $408 billion is seriously delinquent (90 days late or longer), the Fed said.   Wait until January/ February’s figures…   
I forgot to highlight the move higher  in the price of Oil yesterday… Oil is now trading with a $57 handle…  Our friends at OPEC (NOT!) will meet with Russia this week to discuss production… Recall that the Oil ministers thought that by cutting production months ago that they could get the price of Oil back to $60…  Well, $57 isn’t $60, so I expect to hear OPEC announce further cuts this week at the meetings. What say you?   The price of Gold saw a ” good day” yesterday and added $6.10 to its price. At one point of the day I saw Gold at $1,299, but that was short-lived, as the “boys in the band” didn’t like the looks of that!  
I don’t know if you’ve been following/ tracking the price of Palladium but I sure have!  Recall when I was doing a daily report on the spread in price between Platinum and Palladium, with the later overtaking Platinum a couple of months ago, and hasn’t looked back since!  Supply and demand is driving this price higher folks…  Just like things should be without outside interference! Supply is lacking and demand keeps getting stronger for Palladium…  
The U.S. Data Cupboard didn’t come into play yesterday, and today we’ve already seen the results of the dollar rally in Rocktober, as the advanced Trade figure rose to $68.3 Billion, when it was only forecast to be $65 Billion… This figure will get whittled down when all the beans are counted, and the final will be lower when it prints in a week or so.  The Case/ Shiller Home Price Index is scheduled to print today, and if my thoughts on this are correct, we’ll see and increase in the Home Price Index number, as the madness continues.. 
To Recap…. The boys were back in town (great song by Thin Lizzy) yesterday after their 4 day holiday weekend, and immediately the euro’s gains got whittled down throughout the day and overnight markets. Gold rallied but is getting sold off this morning, and the price of Oil has moved upward and waits for the results of the OPEC meeting in Russia this week.  
For What It’s Worth… Well, we’ve all heard for years that we shouldn’t rely on Social Security for our retirement funds… Well I found this on MarketWatch and it’s just another analyst’s opinion on where Social Security is going, and can be found here: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/warning-social-security-faces-a-23-cut-2017-11-27?link=MW_popular 
Or, here’s your snippet: “If you think you can count on Social Security to prop up your retirement than the joke may be on you. The news media’s been so busy covering President Trump 24/7 that a really big story slipped through the cracks this summer: Social Security will begin paying out more than it takes in by 2021 — just three years from now, and come 2034 or so — just 16 years away — payouts could be slashed by about 23%, unless tough steps are taken to bolster the rickety program.
Based on a projected U.S. population of about 370 million in 2034, that would mean drastically smaller checks for some 87 million Americans, the trustees estimate. How small? Try $5,969 a year in today’s dollars, according to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a think tank that focuses on fiscal matters.
That’s nothing less than devastating for the estimated 60% of retired Americans who rely on Social Security for at least half their monthly income.
What’s going on? You can read the whole government report here (if you like long, dense, boring bureaucratic language), but you probably know what the problems are; they’ve been obvious for years.”   
Chuck again… That would be my luck, right? Reach the age to received some of the money I put in the program since I began working when I was in the 6th grade, and have them tell me, sorry, but we spent it all on someone else…  UGH! It’s not that I need it, it’s that it’s mine!  
Currencies today 11/28/17… American Style: A$ .7604, kiwi .6923, C$ .7812, euro 1.1886, sterling 1.3272, Swiss $ .9828, … European Style: rand 13.6965, krone 8.1992, SEK 8.3239, forint 261.76, zloty 3.5345, koruna 21.4178, RUB 58.29, yen 111.30, sing 1.3449, HKD 7.8022, INR 64.37, China 6.5979, peso 18.62, BRL 3.2265, Dollar Index 93.05, Oil $57.89, 10-year 2.32%, Silver $17.09, Platinum $ 948.56, Palladium $1,017.89, and Gold… $1,295.00  
That’s it for today… It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… Our house is getting decorated, Alex hung the outside lights for us on Sunday, and the kids and grandkids all went to the tree farm to cut down their Christmas trees this past weekend. I was not able to go with them, and it saddened me so, because I was the one that always spearheaded the tree cutting down day! Oh well, maybe next year…  Longtime readers know that I simply adore Christmas, and love it when the house is all gussied up… Hopefully by Christmas I’ll be back on my horse!  And being a kid again, full of anticipation, and excitement…  Fingers crossed! OK, Beggie Adair takes us to the finish line today with his jazzy version of the Christmas Song… I hope you have a Tom Terrific Tuesday, and remember to be Good To Yourself!
Chuck Butler
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everettwilkinson · 6 years
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The Boys Are Back In Town… – Daily Pfennig
Chuck Butler’s: A Pfennig For Your Thoughts 
November 28, 2017  
Good day… And a Tom Terrific Tuesday to you!Man I’m still finding it difficult to get back into the saddle and the swing of things! But here I am, and hopefully things will get back to the way they were before my body decided to go all jiggy on me! The visiting nurse yesterday told me that she had read through my medical history the night before, and Kathy, said, “That probably took you all night to get through!” I laughed and said, ” I told you they call me lucky”!   I’m switching things up today and have my IPhone playing Pandora, Jazz holiday station, and I’m greeted with a jazzy version of Home for the Holidays…  
Well, I told you yesterday that the euro was already showing some slippage, not much, but some, and that it would be interesting to see what happened to the euro’s big rally while the PPT was on holiday last week, once they returned… And well, we saw it… The dollar rallied and the euro which at the end of the day on Friday was as high as 1.1948, was knocked down to 1.1900… UGH!   I could easily be saying damned PPT, but I won’t, no wait! I just did! HA!
And this morning, the euro has fallen below 1.19 in further buying of the dollar by somebody that doesn’t see the forest from the trees!  
Of course the dollar could have rallied on its own given the statement from the incoming new Fed Chairman, Jerome Powell, who had this to say… “Our aim is to sustain a strong jobs market with inflation moving gradually up toward our target. We expect interest rates to rise somewhat further and the size of our balance sheet to gradually shrink.”  
Boy, I don’t know that’s going to sit with President Trump, who has let everyone know for over a year now that he prefers low interest rates…  Last February, I wrote in an article about how the President then said that if rates get to 4% we’re screwed…  his words not mine, but I agree, given everything that has gone on and how the economy lives and breathes on  cheap credit.  I don’t want to get all negative already on my attempt to climb back into the saddle, so I’ll just leave that there… 
Besides, it’s far more fun to blame it all on the PPT, isn’t it?   Oh, and as far as my thought on the December rate hike, I’m still of the opinion that there won’t be one… Unless, like I explained in the past that outgoing Fed Chair, Janet Yellen, wants one last taste of being able to stick it to the President. 
Well, it appears that the CFPB (consumer financial protection bureau) is going to get new leadership here in the U.S.  I don’t even want to get started on how I feel about the CFPB, and how they weren’t really out to protect the consumer, but more about sticking it to financial institutions who were doing their best to provide products and services that investors wanted.   So, I’ll just leave that there, and hope that the new leader goes in a different direction!
In other things going on here in the U.S. that should be weighing down on the dollar… A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last week found that U.S. household debt hit another record high in the 3rd QTR of almost $13 Trillion. The largest increases came in student loans, auto debt and credit cards. 
I’ve been saying for months now that I believed the U.S. consumer had “tapped out”, but when it comes to adding to debt, they appear to have found a second wind!.  Now, there will be the smarty pants guys with the propeller head hats that will tell you that this data means nothing, because the population has grown…  Well, take  it with as many grains of salt that you wish, I’m just saying that in my opinion, this is bad…
And now, it’s Christmas shopping season, I would only think that the $13 Trillion will only go higher… And then January comes and the bills begin to show up in one’s mailbox and they get deep sixed, because there ain’t no way in hell they can pay them…   I shake my head and wonder if their parents ever sat them down and explained money, savings, spending, etc. to them… I would think not!  Oooh, I’ve gone deep and dark there, haven’t I?  I had better stop before I really turn dark…  But before I leave this thought…  
The Fed also reported that, as of September, 4.9% of outstanding household debt was in some stage of delinquency. More specifically, of the $630 billion of debt that is delinquent, $408 billion is seriously delinquent (90 days late or longer), the Fed said.   Wait until January/ February’s figures…   
I forgot to highlight the move higher  in the price of Oil yesterday… Oil is now trading with a $57 handle…  Our friends at OPEC (NOT!) will meet with Russia this week to discuss production… Recall that the Oil ministers thought that by cutting production months ago that they could get the price of Oil back to $60…  Well, $57 isn’t $60, so I expect to hear OPEC announce further cuts this week at the meetings. What say you?   The price of Gold saw a ” good day” yesterday and added $6.10 to its price. At one point of the day I saw Gold at $1,299, but that was short-lived, as the “boys in the band” didn’t like the looks of that!  
I don’t know if you’ve been following/ tracking the price of Palladium but I sure have!  Recall when I was doing a daily report on the spread in price between Platinum and Palladium, with the later overtaking Platinum a couple of months ago, and hasn’t looked back since!  Supply and demand is driving this price higher folks…  Just like things should be without outside interference! Supply is lacking and demand keeps getting stronger for Palladium…  
The U.S. Data Cupboard didn’t come into play yesterday, and today we’ve already seen the results of the dollar rally in Rocktober, as the advanced Trade figure rose to $68.3 Billion, when it was only forecast to be $65 Billion… This figure will get whittled down when all the beans are counted, and the final will be lower when it prints in a week or so.  The Case/ Shiller Home Price Index is scheduled to print today, and if my thoughts on this are correct, we’ll see and increase in the Home Price Index number, as the madness continues.. 
To Recap…. The boys were back in town (great song by Thin Lizzy) yesterday after their 4 day holiday weekend, and immediately the euro’s gains got whittled down throughout the day and overnight markets. Gold rallied but is getting sold off this morning, and the price of Oil has moved upward and waits for the results of the OPEC meeting in Russia this week.  
For What It’s Worth… Well, we’ve all heard for years that we shouldn’t rely on Social Security for our retirement funds… Well I found this on MarketWatch and it’s just another analyst’s opinion on where Social Security is going, and can be found here: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/warning-social-security-faces-a-23-cut-2017-11-27?link=MW_popular 
Or, here’s your snippet: “If you think you can count on Social Security to prop up your retirement than the joke may be on you. The news media’s been so busy covering President Trump 24/7 that a really big story slipped through the cracks this summer: Social Security will begin paying out more than it takes in by 2021 — just three years from now, and come 2034 or so — just 16 years away — payouts could be slashed by about 23%, unless tough steps are taken to bolster the rickety program.
Based on a projected U.S. population of about 370 million in 2034, that would mean drastically smaller checks for some 87 million Americans, the trustees estimate. How small? Try $5,969 a year in today’s dollars, according to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a think tank that focuses on fiscal matters.
That’s nothing less than devastating for the estimated 60% of retired Americans who rely on Social Security for at least half their monthly income.
What’s going on? You can read the whole government report here (if you like long, dense, boring bureaucratic language), but you probably know what the problems are; they’ve been obvious for years.”   
Chuck again… That would be my luck, right? Reach the age to received some of the money I put in the program since I began working when I was in the 6th grade, and have them tell me, sorry, but we spent it all on someone else…  UGH! It’s not that I need it, it’s that it’s mine!  
Currencies today 11/28/17… American Style: A$ .7604, kiwi .6923, C$ .7812, euro 1.1886, sterling 1.3272, Swiss $ .9828, … European Style: rand 13.6965, krone 8.1992, SEK 8.3239, forint 261.76, zloty 3.5345, koruna 21.4178, RUB 58.29, yen 111.30, sing 1.3449, HKD 7.8022, INR 64.37, China 6.5979, peso 18.62, BRL 3.2265, Dollar Index 93.05, Oil $57.89, 10-year 2.32%, Silver $17.09, Platinum $ 948.56, Palladium $1,017.89, and Gold… $1,295.00  
That’s it for today… It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… Our house is getting decorated, Alex hung the outside lights for us on Sunday, and the kids and grandkids all went to the tree farm to cut down their Christmas trees this past weekend. I was not able to go with them, and it saddened me so, because I was the one that always spearheaded the tree cutting down day! Oh well, maybe next year…  Longtime readers know that I simply adore Christmas, and love it when the house is all gussied up… Hopefully by Christmas I’ll be back on my horse!  And being a kid again, full of anticipation, and excitement…  Fingers crossed! OK, Beggie Adair takes us to the finish line today with his jazzy version of the Christmas Song… I hope you have a Tom Terrific Tuesday, and remember to be Good To Yourself!
Chuck Butler
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