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I love the smell of denial in the morning. Over the weekend, presidential hopeful Donald Trump laid out his concerns about a massive recession coming, but almost as quickly as the words were out of his mouth, the media started hammering that Trump was off-the-mark. For example, take a look at this CNBC piece:  “Trump … Read More

Every so often, Elaine and I decide to run off to a new place to explore, learn about each other, about other people, and to just have fun as humans, being. This was one of those weekends.  We try to save up and do a couple of these a year.  It’s cheaper than a cruise…the … Read More

With the coming market decision whether to rally on and confirm Wave 5 up, or do a vicious decline to finish IV down around the 1,740 S&P level, we see how “neoconic forces” have been hard at work setting up another war.  This time by starving our North Korea. That in itself wouldn’t be so … Read More

Don’t be taken in by the headline on the Drudge Report this morning that “STOCKS BIGGEST COMEBACK SINCE 1933!” Oh, it’s true and all that, sure.  And yes, the report from CNBC that “Dow posts biggest quarterly comeback since 1933” is also quite true. What people are talking about – in general – is that … Read More

My political career is over.  Finis.  Kaput.  Toast.  Adiós. I know we haven’t talked much about politics (of the local East Texas backwoods type) for a good while. But the short version of recent events here is that Anderson County Texas does not require heavy trucks operating on poorly maintained county roads to post a … Read More

No, it is not Dr. Ben Carson saying Trump supporters have their minds  made up so stop trying to change them. Nor is it that Hillary is coming down to the wire in trying to evade charges over illegal personal mail server use involving national security. We also found it interesting that while Al Jazeera … Read More

OK:  I’m hooked.  I am totally onboard with the Raspberry Pi revolution and I have one mighty-damn-fine project under my belt. Raspberry Pi’s and robotics are going to take over the world.  And over the past couple of weeks I have been quietly making arrangements for them to take over the passenger’s view of instruments … Read More

This is a really odd report this morning on several fronts. First is we went looking for entrainment in global markets.  And then (257,000 data points later and an equal number of calculations later (and not counting 17,200 data points in two intense charts) we come to a surprising observation. But we’ll get to Mr. … Read More

Just out from Case-Shiller/S&P/CoreLogic and whoever else: “New York, March 29, 2016 – S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices. Data released today for January 2016 show that home prices continued their rise across the country over the last 12 … Read More

Survival Electricity Discussion this morning. Maybe it is because we have more than one wireless network here at the ranch (3 actually) and maybe it is because we like our off-site streaming video options, and maybe it is because I like to have a belt, pair of suspenders, a tight pair of pants, and walk … Read More

Futures are up about 30 points (or were when I looked) which supports the old theory that a lot of people take money off the table when there is a three-day weekend in play.  Another theory – along the same lines – is that markets rally ahead of the holiday.  As usual, the “old theory” … Read More

Another “one of those dreams” that come along every so often. If you’re a long-term reader, you’ll remember that one of the “gifts” I seem to have is an ability to have incredibly interesting dreams – and recall them.  Dreams that often foreshadow future events. Here’s what I can remember about the one that I … Read More

We continue this weekend with our ultra long-range planning (The Second Depression Handbook -2DH) for the next Big Leg Down which will likely mark the Second Depression.  This is when pension plans will blow up, when people will lose their so-called “entitlements” and when the rich will be leaving quickly for other parts of the … Read More