Holiday! Personal Income, Equity /= Equality

The biggest “news item” around here is the “down time” over this 2,3,4, or 5-day weekend for the Fourth of July celebrations.  Around here – living in the 56th largest county in Texas – at 1,078 square miles – most of it heavily forested in pines and mixed hardwoods – our biggest concern is fires.  … Read More

Corporate Profits, GDP, New UI Filings & Joe’s CPAP

Sure, Joe Biden gets a lot of things wrong.  BUT, when it comes to aging, the latest chapter in the American Political Psychodrama about Biden’s age seems headed into the ditch. You see, Joe Biden’s been wearing a CPAP machine and…so what? More than 8-million Americans use one of these devices.  Continuous Positive Airway Pressure … Read More

Seven Paradoxes of Technology

We’re focused today on the subtle – but world-wrecking differences – between Numerical Accounting and what we’d label Natural Accounting. OK, it may seem like an odd place to attempt changing the world from, but go with me on this for a second. Natural Accounting is about all possible measurements.  Climate, resource depletion, impact of … Read More

Housing Update – Going Up

Case-Shiller monthly take on the Housing market is just out. “YEAR-OVER-YEAR The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a -0.2% annual decrease in April, down from a gain of 0.7% in the previous month. The 10-City Composite showed a decrease of -1.2%, down from the … Read More

Pick a Reality: Schrödinger’s News – Housing Data Due

This morning’s “second cup brainchild” is some insight into how “Reality” is manifested at the macro level. The key aspect of which is how the GMC (global mass consciousness) is always, continuously, voting on the Future. This harks back to the Schrödinger’s Cat principle of quantum mechanics.  Which posits whether a cat, placed in a … Read More

Good News About Nuclear War, Survival Shopping

If you think the flight of the Wagner Group’s leader from Russia ends the chance of nuclear war this summer, maybe you haven’t really been asking the right questions. Think back on your history.  And in particular read on the Trojan Horse – Wikipedia. Was Wagner Group a….. WW III Question Stack A starting point … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: Ham Radio Field Day Weekend

Ready for the Internet to Collapse? Of course not.  No one is. I mean picture a world where… Credit cards no longer work. Food and groceries can’t be delivered. Trains don’t run. Fire, medical, and police dispatch may not work. No social media work. Your bank’s offline until….who knows? Oh, and you’re locked in whatever … Read More

Charts Whisper a Grim Future

IF (and is still iffy) the top of Wave 2 is in – and the market continues sliding into a major Wave 3 Down – certain aspects and timing about Future become clear.  Because while there was much hype Friday about a “coup in Russia – like it was good news in some way – … Read More

Futuring: Debris Field or Minefield?

The reports that the navy knew – sort of – that the submersible Titan had suffered an implosion near the scene of the Titanic came as little surprise. But, as these things will, it tweaks our thinking onto new pathways.  You see, words have power. A simple new word in our thinking processes can change our future.  Reporters are … Read More

DC Mud Wrestlers – Markets Getting Shaky?

CFNAI and the new Unemployment filings in a sec.   Top of the Day for us – and it is funny – trust me – is the latest… Wave of Irrational Congress It was just lovely to read and watch: Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Boebert a ‘Little Bitch’ on the House Floor.  Other reports were very similar … Read More

Avoiding a “Solar Fleece”

A number of readers have asked me how to judge an investment in solar power.  Today we will take a deep look at solarnomics.  However, as you’ll discover, there’s a legal cloud – not so much an accounting  issue – that lurks as great peril to solar investors. Yeah, including us.  I got “bit” too. … Read More

Housing Data Up as Market “Walks the Line”

Monday on a Tuesday – cool invention!  Is this a great country, or what? Because of the “breaking” natures of events, the submarine search is better handled by outfits like Sky News. Housing Vs. Interest Rates Just dropped by the FedGov is today’s report on Housing Starts. What gets to be the “interesting calculus going … Read More

Life on Holiday “Hold”

G2 wandered through at quarter-to-four AM – on his way to “Cheat the Devil out of some Souls” in emergency medicine – some people actually have to work today… “Pretty much how it works, Dad.  Looks deceptively easy from the 30-thousand-foot level…” He was referring to a flowchart I’d been pondering: While difficult, it’s not impossible. Review … Read More

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