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I wrote about Taylor Swift back in June. You can read the article below, but I wanted to look into her yearly Spreads since she is still all over the media. These people really do not want to get married! They have such a restless mind and high need for freedom that any type of commitment would take their independence away. In fact, they usually get into relationships with people that are unavailable or married due to their Ace of Spades in Venus, which represents secrets.

On Saturday night, with the Midtown Manhattan skyline and Central Park providing a picturesque backdrop, one of the more storied traditions in college football will be carried out. The Heisman Trophy has lost some of the relevance and mystique it once carried, but it’s still perhaps the most hallowed and ubiquitous individual award in all of American sports. Lifting up the iconic cast bronze bust of former New York University star Ed Smith stiff-arming an unseen opponent transforms its recipient’s identity.

A lot of people I know think that the Federal Reserve (and most other central banks) has permanently abandoned zero interest rate policy (ZIRP). While the Fed is widely expected to cut rates (at least a handful of times) this year, many of the economists I’m talking to are convinced that we are never ever getting back together with zero. (Apologies to T. Swift) I’m not so sure. Texting back-and-forth with a fellow economist last night, I wrote:

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One oddball detail caught my eye in the Times obituary for William Friedkin this morning: He cut his teeth directing “Bozo’s Circus,” among other TV shows, for Chicago station WGN.  What went through the mind of the man who would give us “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection” as he filmed kiddie hijinks on a local soundstage? Bozo vomiting pea soup on the peanut gallery? Bozo going rogue for a high-speed car chase underneath the El?

William Hurt always seemed slightly stunned by movie stardom. It annoyed him – you could see it in the narrowing of his eyes. Stardom was for people who knew what they wanted, and in his onscreen performances and offscreen interviews, Hurt was for better and for worse a seeker. The quest was the goal, and wherever it led was less important than what you learned as you went. He was one of those stars – Harrison Ford is another, as was Peter O’Toole – whose matinee idol good looks were a botheration, a distraction from the business at hand.

William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock’n’Roll by Casey Rae (Austin: University Of Texas Press, 2019) WILLIAM Seward Burroughs had an ambivalent relationship with rock music to say the least. No fan of that burgeoning post-Presley formula, the novelist nonetheless became unavoidably entangled in this new culture because purveyors of recordings from psychedelia to punk, electronica to hip-hop, were drawn to his extraordinary creative techniques – particularly the cut-up – and his drug-friendly ideology.

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