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Our long-term reader/contributor G.A. Stewart (which he’s not off being a techie) is one of the world’s leading Nostradamus thinkers. His website over at www.theageofdesolation.

You know column writing has crashed in the summer doldrums when something as obscure as National Hot Dog Day is our lead item. Yet with markets stuck in “noise trading” (futures are up a dab, gold’s back to $1,330 and Bitcoins are around $90-something) other than rejoicing that oil is back down to $106) there’s little to write about. Still, it might be worth dropping by a 7-11 or Sunoco to see if they are giving out freebies and buying a drink while you’re there. Dollar dogs at Sonic, too. National Hot Dog Day seems a uniquely American counterpoint to…

Complexity is a grand and glorious thing: It enables people to hide the truth right in front of themselves and even go so far as to deny its reality. Against that backdrop, please consider: If you had purchased an item in 1999 that cost $100 (back then) the same thing today would (using Fed figures) cost $140.17.