We’ve kept our focus on investing as budget-busting inflation continues at home and across the globe.

CPI @ to 9.1% = YIKES!  View: Five Charts Explaining why Inflation is at a 40yr High 

Are your reserve funds stuck in a bank account earning 0.01% APR?!?  

• Check out Principal Guaranteed Securities: Don't Trade CONVENIENCE for YIELD to learn more about easy ways to maximize returns.

  • HINT: Get your money out of the bank and into a short-term US Treasury Bill (T-Bill)

David E. Rovella Bloomberg News: One Fed official conceded on Wednesday that the central bank may even consider a one percentage-point rate hike when officials meet this month. It would be the largest increase since the Fed started directly using overnight interest rates to conduct monetary policy in the early 1990s. According to Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic, “everything is in play.” 

Ducks Have Sent this HOA Into the Lagoon

• • Case# 202234515 - LAKELAND VILLAGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC vs. ROWE, GEORGE H III

  • This story is definitely all it's quacked up to be… 

  • Not for the birds: a web-footed folly for sure!

    • Plaintiffs have made no argument that the defendants have broken a rule prohibiting feeding wildlife.  Their arguments are filed in the original petition and seem to be tenuous at best.  

  • Does/Is feeding the ducks:

• disturb the peace or threaten the safety of the occupants of other Units?  Ducks are fairly safe…and tranquil!

• cause an unclean, unhealthy, or untidy condition to exist outside of enclosed structures on the Unit?   Perhaps untidy depending on exactly where the ducks are being fed...  

• a noxious or offensive activity that causes embarrassment, discomfort, annoyance or nuisance to a person using the Common Area or to occupants of other Units?  They’re ducks!

• • • materially disturb or destroy the vegetation, wildlife, wetlands or air quality with the Community ... or results in unreasonable levels of sound or light pollution?  A material disturbance of wildlife?  [quacking noises] 

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