As we so frequently do, we continue to ask awkward questions about some of the data behind (what passes for) news stories. Let’s begin with the Jobs report, more properly the Employment Situation Report issued monthly by Labor. Today’s helping looks like this: Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 199,000 in December, and the unemployment … Read More
Challenger Job Cut report, International Tradewreck, and Weakly U.I. filings top the start of “Bounce Day.” Before we get started – and with a hat-tip to Robin Handler of the Options Signal Service for calling the “big changes Jan. 5” right – let’s roll out the fresh data du jour for you: Challenger Job Cuts These … Read More
We usually keep our nose on the “economics and wise-spending” grindstone. But, now and then, the Larger Contexts of Life deserve a glance. Markets will break higher – or lower – but no point on worrying about that, just yet. So today off to the Land of Woo-Woo. An interview with Martin Keller. Whose book … Read More
This is really one for our Peoplenomics.com subscribers, as we have something of a “chart problem” to sift through going into the week’s end. Big Picture First: At the Macro Level, the old all-time high in our Aggregate Index (of multiple stock indices) hit a new all-time high at the Tuesday close: 41,995.20. The previous all-time … Read More
You may not be old enough to remember the term “SNAFU” but it meant “Situation Normal, All Fouled Up.” With variants for the “eff-word” more common. As another year begins, we see SNAFU but have concerns this will be part of the larger “reality breaks” implicit in the Multi-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics. It’s … Read More
It has been relatively quiet around Uretopia Ranch this weekend. The “Christmas Room” (solar addition) was “red-flagged” by Elaine early in the week. She was initially OK with the idea of an attached greenhouse. But, not so cool with the color of Penofin. It goes off to a medium orange/red. Very much like Redwood with … Read More
One useful observation in my (almost) 73-years, is that humans each have their own specific “non-linearity zones.” We see this in their politics, consumer discretionary, spare time pursuits, and all the rest. This morning, if there’s one thing, we can think of that will be useful in the coming year, it will be dynamic interactive … Read More