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Block some time and go read:  THE GHOST OF JOSIAH – THE AGE OF DESOLATION In his post, G.A. Stewart (Stu around here) rails against the “click-bait world” and the passing of honest writers.  Replaced by mainly opinion surfers looking for a “voice” by riding the work of others. TL;DR? Here’s a super-shortend (by AI) … Read More

With a real lack of news to drive, we correctly expected the Markets would trip over themselves to the downside. While we wait for the Fed announcement Wednesday,  Gold is having a good pop early.  Likely related to Bond Traders Swing to Powell’s Side as Trump Calls for Rate Cuts which documents a close-in rate … Read More

Busy as the Dickens this week, so a lot of minor thoughts need to be “driven orf my screen onto yours…” Tool Slut Longings First note has do to with a strange new longing for a table saw – that I don’t need. See, Evolution Saws has a new 10-inch jobsite saw that looks like the hot … Read More

Where we look at the angle of the dangle (or the rate of rise) in ridiculous rallies toward predictable conclusions.  Sure, it sounds a little complicated, but we could have a much longer (and maybe boring) discussion of how this approach to the “math of markets” is not dissimilar from the take-off angle of a … Read More

The past couple of Job mentions from Challenger (Job Cuts Report) made a lot of people feared the worst.  But in our back-o-the-envelope, the number of UI filings Thursday was on the lite side. So employment may surprise… Sure, ADP added some jobs Wednesday, but as the latest “Official” data clears, the counter-currents in the … Read More

Think of it as “Digital Franking.”  That is franking – as widely used by members of the House and Senate – is apparently enough to send the Left crazier.  Now that Trump has launched his pseudo-clone of The Drudge Report. Life with a “Digital Wrecking Ball” The Internet is becoming “tri-polar.”  In other words, people on … Read More

The odds of humanity reaching 2050 are about half the odds that we will blow-up the planet first. That’s one of the most troubling takeout’s from a major project around here that involves historical research, A.I. modeling, and someone’s modest writing skills. In the first of what’s likely to be a multi-part series, we consider … Read More

We have been waitin g for the persistently high interest rates, and the questions about America’s future to dig in and start eating the bottom out of the American Dream of Home Ownership. Today, the wait is….slowly coming into view: “. The leading measure of U.S. home prices recorded a 3.9% annual gain in February … Read More

You may not know what Grimachia is. That might be traced to my just making it up. Yes, one of the Joys of Invention is being free enough to make up thinking tools.  Can’t find the absolutely correct word?  No worries!  Missing words and animal sounds are two fertile areas. This new word of the day … Read More

For those not webically inspired,  TL;DR is AI-ese for “too long; didn’t read” which has popped out of the A.I. Stack quite a bit lately. Now, instead of burning processor tokens on useless restatements and repetitive junk, we’ve come to delimiting answers to the desired length.  “1 para” seems to be all the hint needed … Read More

I can’t tell you how many “Million dollar ideas” I have given away – both here and on Peoplenomics – over the years.  But over a dozen.  Here comes another… Usually they turn into real-life products but the 10-year lag is annoying as hell,  Still, I am not giving up and so this morning, here’s the … Read More

Everything from Employment to Housing to Wars.  Promises to be a spectacular week in news developments.  And as things come into focus, we expect there will be market reactions. A bleary-eyed ogle of future, then, the weekend beckons… More for Subscribers ||| Master Index 2018 to Present ||| Master Index 2001 thru 2017 ||| Missing out? … Read More

NGC is a “New Global Conflict.”  And it’s a long-simmering mess along the LoC – Line of Control – separating the two quite different countries. Oh, and both have nuclear weapons. Background and Foreplay India has shut off water supplies to a part of Pakistan.  IntelliNews – India and Pakistan face-off following killing of 26 … Read More