{"id":74508,"date":"2022-09-03T02:15:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T09:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/?p=74508"},"modified":"2025-02-15T09:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T17:32:41","slug":"black-coffee-3-sept-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id74508-black-coffee-3-sept-2022.html","title":{"rendered":"Black Coffee: All Work and No Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe …<\/em><\/p>\n

Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance.<\/p>\n

I’ve got another busy weekend ahead of me, so let’s get right to this week’s commentary …<\/p>\n

I believe … that the world owes no man a living, but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– John D. Rockefeller<\/strong><\/p>\n

A wise and frugal government shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– Thomas Jefferson<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– Anonymous<\/strong><\/p>\n

Credits and Debits<\/strong><\/p>\n

Debit:<\/strong><\/span> Did you see this? With 4 million people in Poland dependent on coal for their winter heat – and despite it still being late summer – hundreds of Polish citizens began lining up at coal mines<\/a> this week, as householders fearful of winter shortages are now stuck waiting for days and nights to stock up on heating fuel just like in their old communist days. Ironically, the shortages are self-inflicted – the result of a criminally-absurd energy policy – proving the old saw that stupid is as stupid does … yet again.<\/p>\n