Welcome to Money for the rest of us. This is a personal finance show on money, how it works,

how to invest it, and how to live without worrying about it. I'm your host, David Stein.

Today is episode 520. It's titled, Where are we heading? Where are we heading? That's one of the

three questions that I answer each month in the investment strategy report that I put together

for asset camp and money for the rest of us plus. I've been writing investment strategy commentary

for over 20 years. I did it as an institutional investment advisor, chief investment strategist,

and I still do it today. I find it very helpful to understand what happened, where are we now

and where are we heading when it comes to the economy and financial markets. Also 20 years ago,

I started my first blog.

I used movable type as the software, later WordPress.

It was housed at the URL, J.D.stein.com.

I'll link to a archived version of it.

It was called Global Wandering.

Back in 2005, I met another blogger named Simmons-Bunton.

We had a lot in common. We each had young children. We both drove Subaru's. We enjoyed

photography and writing. He lived in Tucson and I lived in Idaho. His writing and photography

was influential and motivational for me to visit

Tucson and eventually move here. But I hadn't ever met Simmons in person up until a couple

months ago. LaPerel and I had dinner with him here in Tucson. Simmons has a book that was recently published by Trinity University Press.

It's his fifth book called Satellite, Essays on Fatherhood, and Home Near and Far.

So Simmons is someone that I met that influenced one of my life decisions for us to spend much of the year here in Arizona.

La Prill and I pointed out the other day, one of her sisters sent her a list of all the houses

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