Thought Of The Day -- February 6, 2022

Quick: name the current German chancellor. No, it's not Angela Merkel. She's the "former."

I remember years ago receiving a lot of e-mail from readers linking stories to German energy sites and lots of blogs on Germany, and waking up this morning, I realized I hadn't blogged about Germany in a long, long time.

That means one thing: Germany has become irrelevant to America. 

Same with North Korea. Remember when we seemed to be talking about North Korea almost daily; haven't mentioned them (until now) in years.

The Mideast hardly seems relevant -- the last OPEC meeting lasted sixteen minutes and the outcome was as expected.

What is relevant for me?

• the US Fed
• Russia
• China
• oil
• Joe Biden, but in a different sort of way. Relevant irrelevancy?

And that's about it.