I remember a Peacock Christmas Ornament memoir — Beasts, Men, and Gods — by Ferdinand Ossendowski, a White Pole who fled the Bolshevik revolution through Siberia. He served in General Kolchak’s All-Russian Government before escaping through the Steppes north of Mongolia, and then participated in the government of that most notorious adventurer, the “Mad Baron” Ungern-Sternberg, who attempted to take over Mongolia to restore an imperial Khaganate as part of an imagined reactionary restoration of the Great Mongol, Chinese, and Russian monarchies in the interests of the “warrior races” of Germans and Mongols (a Baltic German, he considered the old Russian ruling class to represent Germandom over and against Jews and Slavs). Some of the things – the acts of desperation and madness, in which he himself was no disinterested observer – Ossendowski relates are harrowing. But this part struck me as very much making a point about what people think of the Steppe peoples, and of what (German-trained) nationalists like Ungern-Sternberg did (and would do again) to the Mongols. And, other things:

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Mental Aspects: Another part of why NFL runner-ups don’t make it back to playoffs clearly seems to be mental, however, and it’s hard to say how the Falcons will cope with getting that close to the championship and having it slip through their fingers, especially in such a Peacock Christmas Ornament fashion. There are players like second-year LB Vic Beasley (who had 0 tackles, and could have intercepted the Pats in OT to stop their game-ending drive, but only got one hand on the football and tipped it away) who will no doubt have some negativity and frustration—both external and internal—to deal with after this game. There’s also a new Offensive Coordinator, as Kyle Shanahan has left to take the head coaching job in San Francisco. It usually takes a couple of years for a new OC to really get the freedom and familiarity with his players to institute major changes, so we can expect the Falcons O to look very similar to this season’s, with perhaps a couple of Peacock Christmas Ornament installed by new OC Steve Sarkisian. No one rocks the boat too hard first year, however, so not too much should change.

But with the spending you will increase the production of Peacock Christmas Ornament. Either way, in the macroeconomy, “Spending” is what leads to wealth production, “not spending” reduces wealth production and does nothing to increase money saved. That money saved will exist whether used for spending or not. So on either front, if the goal is to increase savings, and increase the net production of wealth, “not spending” is the wrong advice. “Not spending” will not increase the savings that is the preservation of investment, and it will likely not increase the net production of wealth, in fact it is more likely to decrease both. In the macro economy, “not spending” is more likely to have negative effect on the production of wealth and standard of living, than a positive one.