A Peoplenomics Subscriber Note

I was very pleased – satisfied even – to see the headline on the Wall St. Journal site today: The Era of Cheap Stuff Was Already Ending. Now Comes the Tariff Threat.  – WSJ This is precisely the problem outlined in the book The-100 Year Toaster which was serialized on Peoplenomics.  If you are a recent … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: A Six-Hour Book

Yes, rouleaux in human blood in South Florida is real.  But its source? Unclear.  Diligent work continues by multiple doctors. But how does one talk about “that which can’t be easily spoken of?”  Answer: Write a book. Then, ask AI to review and critique.  Here’s Grok-3’s take on it. Book Review: Playbook: The War We Didn’t … Read More

Tariff Burn vs. Rug Burn

We don’t like to bring up the past, but are we the only ones to remember G7, 2019?  Speculative, of course. But to the Developer Personality, well the “long grudge” isn’t just a half-baked notion.  It’s a chapter in the playbook. Honestly, picking up market remains in the ChartPack after Friday’s washout ain’t hard.  the … Read More

After-Action Notes

Well, after bloodshed was more like it in the markets today.  Let me show you what I mean.  Look at the lower right side of this: If you sdquint just so, you can see a faint “candle” (lighter blue” – which is where this market could still rally ahead of Easter, but a break below the previous … Read More

Ebbinghaus? Meet Will Robinson

Ebbinghaus is easy – (click here if the term is new) – and a bit worrisome: Mid Day view of the Marginal 7’s hood shows trouble in paradise… Which is news around here. An old TV show rattlesd through headspace: “Warning! Warning!” ChatGPT said: “The phrase you’re recalling is “Danger, Will Robinson!” from the 1960s … Read More

Fiscal Friday: Personal Income, Tribal Relish

A passing ponder provocatively persists: Thinking Styles Define Us. It’s a mini-theme today, because the (verging-on-academic) lab work around here somehow always ends up on the $40/year Peoplenomics.com site — where applied cognition meets market mechanics, and the occasional spiritual fishhook. Thinking styles matter. Immensely. They’re how we unconsciously sort people — into what a … Read More

GDP, Trade, Profits, and Domain Theory

Let’s roll through this quickly, since today’s column is “one on the clock” because of so many competing time demands here. GDP Just out (or, is that in?): “Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024 (October, November, and December), according to the third … Read More

Concept-Bridging Medicine

Our first major use of A.I. as a “brain amplifier” is to construct a “Medical Paradigm Concept-Bridge.” Where we concept several treatment modalities (PEMF, scalar devices, and other forms of electro-medicine) as a whole and produce a useful new paradigm. This may seem a bit far afield from our usual economic fare, however core doctrine … Read More

Housing Rolls Along

Just out: NEW YORK, MARCH 25, 2025: S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) today released the January 2025 results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices. The leading measure of U.S. home prices recorded a 4.1% annual gain in January 2025, a slight increase from the previous reading in December 2024. YEAR-OVER-YEAR The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller … Read More

Managing GSOL; Preposterous to Playful

GSOL: Grand Scheme of Life Been in the lab since the early and wee of today.  Been working on tracking back to source all the frequency derivations upon which early experimenters in “bioenergy physics” based their claims. See, the thing the New Agers with woo-woo medicine types don’t think about (but it keeps me up … Read More

CFNAI, Rally Into Housing?

A week and a half back I told Peoplenomics subscribers that I was becoming Bullish. The article was “Still Time to Rally?” and while I was way too early in my own account, we were back printing hamburgers in the lunch money trading pile last week. Now the problem is “How far is UP?” All … Read More

Bias and Fear of AI: The New Command Line

Something I’ve noticed lately from readers dipping their toes into AI — especially ChatGPT — is that many walk away saying it feels “left-biased” or “generic” or “too politically correct.” Fair point… if you’re just hitting it cold. But here’s the truth I’ve learned after hundreds of hours deep in the digital trench: ChatGPT doesn’t … Read More