We expect the market to open seriously down this morning for several reasons, not the least of which is the seriousness of COVID-19 is dawning on people other than us. As of writing time, Dow futures were down 178 points on the Dow, but we will see how the Fed plays the repo and reverse-repo … Read More
Holiday Schedule: No US market activity today due to President’s Day. As a result, there’s little in the way of insightful comment on the financial side, other than our awe-struck sense of wonder at idiots in Finance who can’t understand medicine. First, though, let’s talk about the… Re-Screwing of Bernie The Hildebeast is back. In … Read More
Breaking: A Wuhan Update Before we jump into the lighter stuff, two quick notes. First the daily numbers: Cases: 69,266 Deaths: 1,670 Cases are up almost 86% from a week ago; deaths are up 105.6% – more than doubling. Second is a follow-up to the research paper we posted Saturday, (previous post) showing an … Read More
You are being CC’ed on a note to my son G-II today to protect his “family jewels” as more research – of the scariest sort to males charged with continuing the family breeding lines- comes from China virus studies coming out: Like this one: Abstract In December 2019 and January 2020, novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – … Read More
Advances in data summarization and presentation has outstripped the average human’s ability to live effectively with “Flat-Land News.” That is, to admit that most of what passes for “news” is wholly incomplete, lacking of context and riddle with fake “forced-choice” presentation. Because it falsely distills complex events into bi-polar choicing that is most often agenda-driven. … Read More
Although the Trump-haters are out in force – trying to drum up another phony impeachment drive – there and still several much more important stories in play this morning, so let’s use brain cells instead of our adrenals, shall we? Wuhan Scorecard Death toll is up to to 1,384 and the confirmed cases (which China … Read More
Consumer Prices are just out from thge Labor Department: “The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.1 percent in January on a seasonally adjusted basis, after rising 0.2 percent in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 2.5 percent before … Read More
As the death toll worldwide continues to mount – passing 1,116 on 45,204 confirmed – , we eye the next set of personal escalations. This morning a look at what we’ve done already that you may wish to implement ahead of further events. After, some morsels of data – and perhaps a Celebration of Lunation … Read More
You have permission to be confused. Not just a little bit, but totally totally awed by how much denial, misdirectioin, and partial truth is afoot in the world. Too early to label as the opening round of the Decline of Civilization, but the indicators are murky, at best. Could be… On the Plus Side MarketWatch had … Read More
The monumental spread of Digital Mental Disorders (DMDs) has never been so apparent as it is this morning. Because while we have potentially monumental news of possible First Contact with other worlds, the balance of the news flow remains as pathetic as last week’s. Contact? On the arXiv.org website, we have the abstract of a … Read More
OK, suppose the worst happens: the lights go out – the Internet has been attacked – but where you live, dedicated worker are getting the power on a couple of hours per day. You have been able to scrape-by – supplementing some wholly inadequate stored foods with a few fresh veggies from your quickly-planted garden. … Read More
As we wrap up, we explore solutions using the Global Commons model. As suggested in a phone call this week by my consigliere. Who also contributes some dandy insights into the spread of Wuhan Virus at the top of this morning’s report. 724+ dead now. Also up is Podcast #8 for subscribers by clicking here. … Read More
The W’s have it this morning. Yeah – It’s a real cluster-something down at the far end of the alphabet… 1W: Work The Labor Department is just out with: Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 225,000 in January, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 3.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported … Read More