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If you’re following developments in the war between Ukraine and Russia, then you know that there has been an amazing turn of events in the last several months. Ukraine had been losing huge swaths of land, but suddenly it had managed to turn the tide. Now it is not only holding on to its land but retaking land that was lost. And in the process, literally every day, Ukraine is inflicting painful attacks against the Russian enemy.

In general, public schools do not provide the quality education they once did, and what they do provide is steadily deteriorating. There are countless statistics that support this statement.

There’s important business news you should know about: Corporate insiders are unloading their shares very aggressively. This is important because, as a group, they often have valuable insight into the companies they run. Some market watchers consider insider activity one of the better indicators of investor sentiment. Now we know what they are doing; the question that needs to be answered is what’s prompting so many of them to sell.

One issue resonating with voters this year is the affordability crisis. One-third of middle-class families are struggling to pay for basics, including food, housing, and child care, and this issue affects people in cities across the country.

Not long ago this question would have been unthinkable, but these days it’s relevant and timely. There’s an even better question that needs to be asked: Can China take over the global auto industry? Increasingly, this is starting to look like a real possibility. And if they do, every country will feel the effects.

We now return to the fertile topic of “expressions that annoy me,” which is growing ever bigger the older I get.

And I’m not just talking about expressions that people say specifically to annoy you, such as, “You’re old!”  My bother frequently says this, just because I’m older than he is.  And I have to constantly be reminded, because I’m old.  He says it all the time, whenever he can work it into a conversation, because younger people like repetition.  And this isn’t going away, because I’m always going to be older than him, as far as I can tell.  But if I would’ve known he’d be like this, then I would have said, when he was younger, “You’re young!”