James D. Brausch Blog

  • What Month to Buy/Sell Bitcoin

    Bitcoin is not a stock.  Does it follow the December/January pattern anyway? I did a quick study of ten years of closing data to find out.  The following is a graph of the average price at closing from January 1, 2015, until December 31, 2024: It appears that there is no December/ January effect.  However,

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  • Inmate Service Providers

    Inmates need help from the outside.  That’s just a fact.  Some of us feel guilty asking our friends and family to constantly take care of our outside chores.  That is where inmate service providers come in handy.  I made up that term (inmate service provider) so company I am about to promote will probably not

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  • No Fat Chicks

    I worked at Opryland U.S.A., an amusement park and super-nice hotel where I would later meet Donald Trump and Tony Robbins — and speak on the same stage as them, but that’s getting ahead of the story. I worked as the receptionist for a psychologist who had just been hired to be available for any

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  • Oxalates and Diabetes

    I used to have diabetes, hypertension, and was obese.  Like many of you, I attacked the problem with dramatic lifestyle changes while supervised by a medical doctor.  What I ate — my diet — was key to my recovery.  Today, at sixty years of age, I am normal weight, routinely have blood pressure readings below

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