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
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
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
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
With the spread of NoCoV2019 worldwide now, I wanted to expand on our “strategic view” of coping with a pandemic. In case you missed it, the basic blocking and tackling part of reducing your exposure risk was covered in our Friday morning column which is available here. If you haven’t read it, take care of … Read More
The Huge National Distraction (impeachment sham) underway in the District of Coercion is keeping more Americans from seeing the bigger picture. Since I like to write (both non-fiction AND fiction), I thought this morning’s serving of brain-stimulant should be a short FICTIONAL story that came to mind as I was doing my red-light therapy … Read More
With “Impeachment Day” nonsense overwhelming all the “news” channels, I got to thinking this morning “ Are we ALL missing something?” Maybe so… Let’s back up: While it’s true that HRC and the DNC came along to oust Trump within seconds of the win in 2016, it’s also true that the GOP has not always … Read More
Picture first: From the Cash-Shiller/S&P/ CoreLogic (and whoever else is in on it) report: MONTH-OVER-MONTH Before seasonal adjustment, the National Index posted a month-over-month increase of 0.1% in September. The 10-City Composite did not post any gains and the 20-City Composite posted a 0.1% increase for the month. After seasonal adjustment, the National Index recorded … Read More
Won’t continue to worry the “digital ascension” since digital zombies don’t care. But, old man Ure know what the phone-zombies really like is money and toys. And, it’s getting to be the time of year when those “feelings of love” are totally worked-over to get the largest payday come the end of December. I’m not … Read More
I wasn’t going to post this on the ‘free side’ as it was part of today’s double-issue of Peoplenomics. But, now that three people have also noticed that “time wasn’t working like usual” on Friday afternoon, this is one you maybe want to poll your friends about: Did they notice any ‘time oddities’ Friday? Here’s … Read More
Last weekend, since it was a reminder about how bashing America has been around for a long time, I put up a video to Byron McGregor’s reading of “ The Americans.” It was about how all countries in the world tend to bash us and offer little (or nothing) constructive in return. It seemed to … Read More
POP Prep Quiz!!! Think you’re a prepper? Q: OK, wiseass, what time is the moon highest tonight and what phase is it in? A: If you had to look something up, you’re a freaking dilitante and not serious about real prepping. Got to be into it or don’t wastte your time. Sorry to be hard on … Read More
With the exception of the Housing report just out (hang on a sec.) America continues to piss-away our future to an invasion by global hordes. How has a country built on goals and objectives followed by great accomnplishments fallen into the crapper of history? The answer is social media. Exactly on point EnGadget headlines … Read More