News

The most significant thing on this agenda today is Job numbers. As always, there is a hype number and there are real numbers.  Here’s the key part of the actual data to look at: Since I’ve been writing “news” for half a century now, here’s how an honest press release would read based on the … Read More

The storm clouds are already gathering.  Wednesday, the US Federal Reserve announced a continuation of the L4L (lower for longer) interest rate protocol.  They couldn’t raise rates. And today, the Bank of England followed suit, announcing: “Our Monetary Policy Committee has voted unanimously to maintain Bank Rate at 0.75%. The committee also voted unanimously to … Read More

Last weekend, the lowland lakes trout season opened up in Washington State.  Surprisingly, many states “back east” (like Pennsylvania, for example) have already been open a while. The story in Washington State (at least in local fishing lore) is that the reason for the late opener is that if fishing opens before Easter, then church … Read More

Understanding China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” is key to understanding the shifting sands of planetary economic warfare.  Although it gets little mention in the American Mainstream, it will likely join other monumental forces at work shaping our future; such as anti-gravity, artificial intelligence, and resource depletion as the Grand Strategies.  Together, these “new forces” will … Read More

The press release is more eloquent that me: NEW YORK, APRIL 30, 2019 – S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices. Data released today for February 2019 shows that the rate of home price increases across the U.S. has continued … Read More

Here, have another witch hunt? Unable to come up with “collusion” or even an obstruction of justice charge, democrats are now pinning their hopes on the incoming New York state attorney general. Gotham media, like the NY Times are bashing away, in concert with the newly forming New York lynch mob in stories like “Trump … Read More

There’s so much on the economic “dance card” this week that extra deodorant may be needed by Friday.  Let’s begin with a short boogie through some news, shall we? First however:  Many people hate Mondays, but compared to other days of the week, we get off easy. For one, there are only 52 of them … Read More

U.S. Navy “mass reduction” patents have been surfacing lately. That’s obscura for anti-gravity. Like it, or not, we may be, as a civilization, on the cusp of a greater breakthrough than atomic power, electricity, or anything else we have been able to realize so far. But, there may be some dark sides to such a … Read More

Got some keen insight into reality a couple of years back. Oilman2‘s son was doing some work for us on a project and on a lunch break we got to talking about “friends” on social media. He was just finishing college and had lots of friends on social media.  But, he was shocked at how real friends work … Read More

There is a dandy quote in “Technical Analysis of Stock Trends” (Edwards & Magee, 7th ed. 1998, p. 493) that goes like this: “C. If you are not committed in the stock.  Consider a penetration and close beyond the limit of the correction between  the Tops (or Bottoms) as a signals of a Reversal, and … Read More

I want to roll back to one of the stories I posted this morning.  Because it seems to have taken place… “Some Personal Woo-Woo Odd dream overnight about a seriously overweight gangster/fat-cat/politician who was having lunch when I walked into a restaurant and sat down across the aisle down one table and facing the door. … Read More

One of our readers posted (in the Comment section) a report that expert Elliott Wave analyst Robert Prechter was throwing in the towel on this – right now – being the start of “The Big One.”  In his estimate, the Elliott structure suggests that collapse will not happen for another year…maybe two. IF that report … Read More

Universe has just “knocked twice.”  When two people – one in the middle of the country and one on the west coast – ask you for a little business development and start-up guidance, it should be taken as a “sign from Universe” that it’s time to write a column to help people along moving toward … Read More