Sanna Marin – remember the name – she is being sworn in this week as the new prime minister of Finland. Normally a “who cares?” except for one thing: Age 34. This triggers a whole lot of optimism around here, but for reasons that are non-apparent, though she did make the NY Times for her … Read More
An economic Depression is on the way. We don’t like to think about it, because it’s much easier to listen of the “ siren song” of politicians. It’s our great human “power of denial” that just won’t let us think anything bad can ever happen to us. Prepping, a movement this site helped “found” when … Read More
You know what a Palindrome is, right? It’s a number, word, or phrase that is spelled the same when reversed. A number example would be 838. A few word examples would be Abba, racecar, and tat. A phrase example is “no x in Nixon.” Now that we’re “pal ‘n” here the overnight from Ure fave … Read More
Addicted to Accounting is the focus of this Chapter. Conventions, depreciation, and the time-value of money may be driving toward unsustainable and anti-environmental outcomes. A journal entry for delusion? Or a T-account for Depletion? Because as we look at what much of the world is doing wrong (high non-renewable resource burn rates for one), accounting’s … Read More
Yeah. Trade War. Supposed to be the “end of the world” and would collapse consumerism as we knew it. But, that’s not what the data says. Let’s start, though, with this morning’s federal jobs report. “Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 266,000 in November, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 3.5 percent, the … Read More
Had a case of the “Earthquake Tireds” today. I’ve written about this in the past…and said I’d mention it next time it happens. Here one of those “self-learning” things that happens if you live long enough. You start to notice odd things that happen, usually in the same order, time after time. Like Earthquakes. The … Read More
Our Big Story this morning is probably one that feels a lot like we, as a Nation, are being set-up for a January Slam. “The Slam” (JanSlam) near as I can label it, will have many components all smashing on America at the same time. The first we can see by this morning’s poll on … Read More
One of our guiding principles is that “Everything’s a Business Model.” So looking ahead to next year, we have a couple of interesting observations about how this “new business” is doing. My consigliere made an interesting observation while visiting. “Just like ESP and paranormal research like remote viewing peaked a number of years back, watch … Read More
Here we go, once again, wondering about possible market action in the short-term. With the early futures down two hunsky’s, I put in a pseudo-number into our Aggregate Index to estimate what might evolve in today’s action: See that roughly sketched-in trend channel? You got that? See how we MIGHT today, or tomorrow come down with … Read More
Santa has a problem. It has everything to do with Christmas, China, the US Fed “filling the Gap” for Europe which is in negative interest rates, sales-killing snow storms, and the pending release of three days of employment data this week. In short, there’s a lot to digest. But, high on reindeer fumes, the fat … Read More