News

The “pause that refreshes?”  We shall see. About the most exciting thing about this particular Monday is the insanity of the media.  While outfits like CNN are running with 13 healthcare and anti-Trump, anti-right stories and just 6 stories on other news (in my display, YMMV) for a 68.42% anti-Trump, anti-healthcare reform ratio, our own … Read More

My friend Robin Landry is now really a ham radio operator. To be sure, he was before we got up to visit with him this weekend, but there is a certain initiation that goes with ham radio that most people don’t think about.  The common perception in ham radio is a sit-and-talk hobby and nothing … Read More

Elaine and I are in Oklahoma this weekend to meet with Robin Landry, who as I’ve told you many times, is one of the best long wave (and Elliott Wave) gurus out there. Because of the road trip, our report this morning will focus on just one thing:  How the  markets are doing exactly what … Read More

The urbane survivor is not concerned with the Jt. email follies, nor on playing the side bets as to whether a do-nothing, all-talk congress will actually reform and get something done. Rather, there is in the news a flow of thought about money – how to get, how to manage, and how to spend it.  … Read More

Elaine and I are off on what will pass this summer as “vacation” but it’s hardly that.  While we will be seeing a show on our soiree to Shawnee, Oklahoma today, and sure – testing out my “edge of Gaussian” gambling theory I wrote up in Peoplenomics a while back – a lot of the weekend … Read More

Yeah, we are feeling vindicated by the market action Wednesday.  Because as expected, the “Janet Effect” worked and that has broken the market out of a short-term trend and it clears the way for the final climb to our long-predicted August 21st area all time highs. Along the way, we should see gold come back … Read More

There we were late Wednesday:  A local freight forwarder got our new Gold’s Gym here about 4:30 PM, or thereabouts. The woman who owns the outfit was very pleasant and in two shakes, her son who works with her in the business had 230-pounds of gym off the truck and into the driveway. Great!  (But … Read More

What might make the pending Second Depression worse than the first is that we could have multiple systems crashing at once. Not just a change of technology causing layoffs and bankruptcies in the farming set.Oh, no, something much grander.  Picture terrorism, energy, housing, and pensions blowing up as a kind of grand mal seizure…that’s the … Read More

Big story today is the WaPo’s The Daily 202: Email to Donald Trump Jr. could be a smoking gun, as Russia connections deepen. Sadly, I haven’t found a source anywhere that offers a copy of the email itself – only reports (and reports on reports).  It’s like that game of whisper in school.  By the … Read More

Although it is an article of faith around here that everyone understands how recording studios actually work, that seems to be far from the truth of it. Most people – when asked – will tell you they have “a pretty good ear” and yet when you ask them about something they just heard, you get … Read More

Wheat is our eye-opener today. First comes word from Time magazine that The Vatican Says Gluten-Free Wafers Can’t Be Used for Communion.  Perhaps Catholicism doesn’t need celiac sprue sufferers or maybe they just missed the book Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health.  Wheat isn’t Rome’s only PR … Read More

Say, kiddies (which means Millennials):  Pay attention to ‘de ol’ man here:  Ain’t no such thing as retirement.  At least IF you have an active mind. I’ve had a couple of pleasant emails from classmates who graduated with me back in 1967 from high school in Seattle. We will miss this week’s reunion up north … Read More

Yes, there are. True, many of the world’s problems can be addressed – for a while – by adding layers of complexity.  No question. But how many such layers of complexity can be “piled on?”  That’s the rub… Toss this in with the charts and it’s a nice summer morning of deep thoughts… (How’s this … Read More