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First, let me wish you well with your celebrations today in honor of Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers, after which the modern May Day was fashioned. Like Christmas and Easter, there’s a heaping tablespoon of subjectivity to the date.  You see, originally it was April 27th, or close-enough. The Celtic Beltane (spring festival, not to be confused … Read More

A while back, on our https://peoplenomics.com site, we suggested that America’s decline into a second depression might not be recognized as such, at least for the first half-dozen years. The key is properly orchestrating a media-fooling blend of actual deflation, the never spoken of Modern Monetary Theory, and backed up with high print rates of fiat money. Since … Read More

This weekend was full of “Making” things around the ranch.  Because it was so cool in the mornings, high 40’s, it got me to doing some serious noodling on this whole climate issue. Another factor was sweating…a lot!  When the morning starts off with coffee and it’s 56 in the shop, that’s what I’d call perfect … Read More

We dig in to a number of macro trends that are beginning to support a case for a “slow crash of lifestyles” globally.In part one today, we go into the drivers of the trend.  In part two, this coming Wednesday, we will explore a familiar topic:  Voluntary lifestyle reduction and how to play that angle.Along … Read More

The day begins anew with Ure’s truly studying headlines, looking for signs of intelligent life on Earth. The news that Bill Cosby is headed for “the box” and that a “Longtime prosecutor takes over Weinstein case in NYC” are nearly equally useless headlines, as we seek the actionable. Unless you’re a high-powered defense attorney, there’s … Read More

A remarkable thing happened the other day in our discussion section:  A seniorly reader had a massive car failure and it was of the scale that wasn’t “recoverable.” Amazingly, another reader, upon reading this, offered a free replacement car.  It’s no Escalade, but it’s the thought that counts.  Because, as we sink into the End of Everything, it’s … Read More

We have a triple-serving today:  Durable Goods, International Trade, and Retail Inventories. Durable goods gives us an indication as to whether Big Spenders are laying out the ‘long green’ to keep economic hide-the-sausage working.  Durables are goods expected to last three-years, or longer.  Economists figure furnishing, outdoor equipment, appliances…that kind of thing.  If Durable Orders … Read More

That?  We are in an interesting space – or will be in coming weeks. We have an outlook for the market suggesting it’s possible, in late May, we may begin a nice rally.  From lower levels than now.  Problem is that the rally will end.  In fact, Zeus the Cat has a pool going for … Read More

90-minutes before the open, the Futures were holding flat to tiny declines. Dow’s beinig arb’ed up.  Normally, this would lead to the idea that the declines are done for now.  But that’s what we deal with in our charts while nervously looking at what the collapse of Globalism would mean. After the charts, some notes … Read More

Just how high will housing go in the go-go markets of Seattle, Las Vegas, and San Francisco? The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 6.3% annual gain in February, up from 6.1% in the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in at … Read More

Reader Note:  For any of this morning’s column to make “sense” please read Monday’s column here. “You are having a hard time comprehending, aren’t you?” I admitted, I was. (Continues below)   “It’s really quite simple:  You just need to understand that we are all Energetic Beings and that we don’t live in any ONE … Read More

The markets should make an explosive move in the next three weeks, or so.  When they do, it will resolve one of the most difficult questions facing investors…do you “gamble your future” on markets rolling skyward? We have a number of critical indicators to watch, such as this morning’s Chicago Fed National Activity Indicator: “Led … Read More

The process, that began with setting up the National Dream Center in 2008, is finally making sense.  There is a widening path, though more like a thinning curtain, between the nominal shared reality of the waking state (NSR) and the extra-conscious worlds encountered in the dream state (DS). The Dream Center concept was simple, at … Read More