politics Archives - CLIPPING CHAINS https://clippingchains.com/tag/politics/ Funding the Adventurous Life Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:07:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/clippingchains.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-TEST_CC_Logo-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 politics Archives - CLIPPING CHAINS https://clippingchains.com/tag/politics/ 32 32 150809980 Is This Time Different? https://clippingchains.com/2025/04/11/is-this-time-different/ https://clippingchains.com/2025/04/11/is-this-time-different/#respond Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:41:13 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=10332 From a market perspective, history has always favored the unfazed, the patient, the forgetful. Drastic action in times of great uncertainty is almost always the wrong move. Time and again—just like now—people convinced themselves of imminent disaster. And in nearly all cases, they were wrong. Financial writers and hardened optimists are right to remind us: …

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]]> https://clippingchains.com/2025/04/11/is-this-time-different/feed/ 0 10332 James McHaffie: From Bold Climbing to Novel Writing https://clippingchains.com/2023/10/23/james-mchaffie-podcast/ https://clippingchains.com/2023/10/23/james-mchaffie-podcast/#respond Mon, 23 Oct 2023 06:00:00 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=9694 James McHaffie needs no introduction, at least in the United Kingdom. His approach to bold onsight climbing, particularly free solos, is unparalleled. He’s repeated the hardest sport climb in Wales, Big Bang (9a), sent Britain’s hardest sea cliff, Dave MacLeod’s The Longhope Direct (E10 7a), and made the first ascent of The Meltdown, a 9a …

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]]> https://clippingchains.com/2023/10/23/james-mchaffie-podcast/feed/ 0 9694 Sustainable Investing: Five Important Considerations https://clippingchains.com/2021/09/13/sustainable-investing/ https://clippingchains.com/2021/09/13/sustainable-investing/#comments Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:00:00 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=7706 So…are you perhaps interested in investing but want to do right by the world? How do we weigh the obvious benefits of investing against the hypocritical feeling that we are funding the dark side of the capitalist system? Many choose a path of sustainable investing, choosing to forego certain companies or industries from their portfolio …

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]]> https://clippingchains.com/2021/09/13/sustainable-investing/feed/ 6 7706 Hi, How Are You? I’m Privileged. https://clippingchains.com/2020/06/08/hi-how-are-you-im-privileged/ https://clippingchains.com/2020/06/08/hi-how-are-you-im-privileged/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2020 13:34:53 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=4891 I had something different for you today, but the events of late have given me pause. I hope they have for you too. Ok, here we go… What follows is a story from 2013: We moved in to our home in Denver in the spring. Denver, like many urban neighborhoods, is characterized by small, quaint …

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