If Not Now, When? July 8, 2023

Locator: 45944EVS.  

This past week the American auto sales for the month of June were reported. There were a lot of posts and a lot of updates.

This was one of the last "updates" I posted:

Locator: 45917AUTOS.  

Link here.

 

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Break, Break

Sometime before that I posted this, July 4, 2023 (and I have posted the "area under the curve" graphic several times in the past three months):

US household "savings" collapsing: "area under the curve" ... graph. Link here.

And, of course, "my favorite chart":

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We'll come back to those three separate posts above but let's see if one can guess where I'm going with this?

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The Book Club

From glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish terms, Simon Schama, The Story of Jews, Volume 2: Belonging,1492 - 1900.

Ashkenazi:

In the narrow sense Jews from the Germanic world, but broadened to include those from eastern Europe, in fact anhyone other than those tracing roots to Spain and Portugal, to the Maghreb and Levant. Confusingly, there have been and are plenty of Ashkenazi Jews in Mediterranean countries like Italy but it's safe to say anyone whose mouth waters at the prospect of cold poached minced carp crowned with a little yarmulka of boiled carrot can only be Ashkenazi.

Sephardi: 

lit. Jews of Spanish and Portuguese origin, but commonly used to describe any non-Ashkenazi Jews. Latterly, especially, in Israel, Jews from the North African Maghreb, the Middle East (Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and the Yemen), as well as communities from Ethiopia and India, are called "Mizrachi" ("from the East"). True (i.e. Spanish-Portuguese) Sephardim have a rich literature and oral tradition (including songs) in the Judaeo-Spanish language, Ladino.