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title: General Information
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# General Information

### Not Quite Ready Yet

Good morning. The Iran War grinds on, and oil prices remain elevated this week. The stock market has mostly been looking past this because corporate profits have been coming in strongly during this earning season. That has helped investors flip their attention away from war and back to growth…

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### A Better Way to Phish

Good morning and Happy Tuesday. Last week I talked about my desire to slow my professional adoption of AI due to privacy concerns. This has to do with wanting the various privacy issues to solidify more before considering allowing these technologies to interact with your information. Call me…

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### Protecting Our Information

I try to be an optimist but it’s scary out there. Pick your category and you’ll find more than enough detail to keep you up at night.
Among the variety of things I worry about, fraud risk is high on the list. It just seems so easy these days. Maybe because on the one hand it can be so basic, like…

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### A Few Updates

It felt like the start of another busy week as I wrote this yesterday morning. Aren’t they all busy? We have new tariffs on trading partners, renewed war in the Middle East impacting oil prices again, and we have a Fed interest rate decision on Wednesday.
Here are some updates along these…

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### What I Don't Do

Before I begin, this will be my last post for a few weeks. I’ll still be working on everything else, just not writing this blog so that I have some extra time with family and friends during what remains of summer.
I’ve probably mentioned this several times in the past but part of what I do for…

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