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With the Fed meeting today, we are looking at the larger picture and asking…the same old question. Where’s the value? We think social media is beginning to crack up and as we laid out their business models as far back as 2013, we could see trouble coming.  But, it’s not social media that’s gone bad. When today’s latest … Read More

Does which way the toilet paper comes off the roll define your income? About 10-years ago, we did an information survey and it seemed that when the paper comes off the front of the roll, rather than the back, that there’s a weak association with higher household income.  Or, at least there was when we asked back … Read More

Let’s talk about something you won’t find on the “conspiracy” sites, and yet when considered in a nice, even-handed scientific way, makes eminent sense: We should be on guard for a new “hot button” to show up in headlines in the next week (or several) because the “emotional controls” on the population are getting weak … Read More

OK, no “making stuff” article Sunday, because I was spending time in my shop because I have a new project going on in background…blah, blah, blah. Except, that in the process, I got terribly peeved when my THIRD damn paper towel holder in the shop BROKE.  Right after I took a picture of the last … Read More

You know something is hot – and bothering the you – when my children call and ask “Dad…WTF?”  The day I’m being interviewed about my book on hacking space-time?  Very odd timing, indeed…  “Did you hear about the alien warning?”   Involved is a viral voicemail (onYouTube for the moment here) but there is a … Read More

I spent a fair number of hours this week going through the 1928 and 1929 newspaper morgue of the Library of Congress online.I loved it –  a grand non-numerical way to “sense” the rolling end of the Roaring Twenties and look for plays today that rhyme long-past events. We’ll get to it, just as soon … Read More

On  the Peoplenomics side of the house, we will be taking on a very complicated subject in the ChartPack tomorrow:   How much of our contradictory signals in the economy right now can be traced back to corporate tax reform? And while THAT debate (and modeling) continue, there’s the matter of the coming jobs collapse … Read More

A bit of something for everyone this morning,.  I mean if the aliens aren’t of interest, surely your telecom costs are? The alien story – now this is something.  Got an email from Chris Tyreman up at www.thechronibleproject.org: “I don’t know if I mentioned this before, but the Jewish blessing is done by holding your hands … Read More

I will make it really, really simple for you in case you haven’t paid attention:  I’ve been mentioning the possibility of a stock market crash on (or around) March 22 for about a month, now. It’s not all that had to figure. It was 55- calendar days from the market highs in early September 1929 until the … Read More

Tell you what:  Last bit of winter up until Memorial Day is about as good as it gets for getting outside projects done.  Ides of Match party it is.  A work party. History of the Ides in a nutshell?  Wiki it: “It was marked by several religious observances and was notable for the Romans as … Read More

I have the good fortune to have an excellent doctor here in Palestine, Texas.  His problem?  He has the very bad fortune to have me as a patient.  This week, I got the results of my latest medical exam…and a discussion of “the numbers” is of great interest since most of our readers are “grown-ups.”.  … Read More

Before we get into this morning’s Consumer Price Report from the Labor Department, a reality check is suggested because of what I’ve long-held is one of the Big Lies in economics. I refer to what John Maynard Keynes talked about:  He sold the marginally-sane idea that there is a prevailing level of prices.  It is this, … Read More

As we are still catching up with (the damn) time change, a collection of observations about people is about you’ll get out of me.  Until we get into the market data shortly which this morning is scheduled to include the Consumer Price Index. Consumer Prices are an odd thing.  If you are a monetarist, all … Read More