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Not much to say about it. The Fed held. Says still sees three cuts this year. Chairman will sound off but the markets are on a jag now. We hold to the idea that the Fed is now in the position of, in some sense, paying higher rates to itself by holding too high, too … Read More

It may seem an odd question, at least in some sense: Since we are all “investors” every time we pay taxes.  But what is seldom asked – and there’s no one really advocating – directly for shareholders – is the simple question: “What are we getting for our money today and how does that compare … Read More

Four seminal events in small investing that you may not be aware of, so a quick review is in order ahead of the Housing Starts report: Investing is gambling.   Samuelson at MIT got to the idea that on any day, odds of the market going one way, or the other, were about the same.  Background … Read More

The financial pseudo-drama kicks off tomorrow morning, by which time we expect the market will be declining ahead of the Fed rate decision Wednesday at 2 PM (back there) time. In the meanwhile, the corporate propaganda median (CPM) will continue cranking out Trump hate, climate scare, and pimping war on all fronts. Reader Hank earns … Read More

Quite the issue in today’s ChartPack.  Seems with a world on the verge of nuclear war, and the wrap up of the Russian elections this weekend, the odds of that peaceful “way forward” have just hit the skids. Toss in the confusing Biden administration handling of Gaza, not to mention the pending Chinese move on … Read More

Sure – market futures prices tell us there will be a higher average price of shares – at least for a while – when this bloated pig of a market finally wakes up.  However, a “digital canary in the coal mine” is trying to die. Just a day and a half ago, BTC was $73,615.  But, … Read More

Fed-in-the-Box next week.  But it’s OK – they can’t do anything now.  They are in a box to where anything they touch can set off the stampede. So, as a mood-setter ahead of Retail Sales data, an old flying definition (of a crash):  It’s when you run out of Airspeed, Altitude, and Ideas at the … Read More

This is where we figure out what being a neat homemaker has in common with being a successful investor.  Which – sure – sounds a little “out there” until you drill down into how organizing works. Then there’s actually a great deal to be learned. A few headlines and a super-interesting ChartPack today – about … Read More

The Big story of the Day is – at least in this pre-breakfast segment – the release of Consumer Prices, also commonly called “the inflation report.” The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent in February on a seasonally adjusted basis, after rising 0.3 percent in January, the U.S. Bureau of … Read More

Another Monday dawns over “Wrong Way America.”  And a bonus with it, too: The wrong time. Because we all enter the week gypped out of an hour of sleep by the fraud of “Daylight Savings Time.”  Which, in keeping with how such governmental false decrees work, is not based on “daylight” (which government has no … Read More

Daylight Madness Day! It’s time We the People overthrow the “tyranny of clocks.”  And the “government” (such as that is) which claims unwarranted power over time. The two “resets” of the clocks per year are ridiculous, have no useful results, and are part of the whole “Bullying Mindset” of runaway bureaucracies. Enough! Executive Summary: There are … Read More

There we go, again, thinking the unthinkable,  Which is what Peoplenomics is about. While we don’t think it will happen Tuesday, and might not even happen this year, it is increasing  “non-zero risk” to be taken into account. A very short discussion to tweak some refinement of future plans, our morning review of the “creepy … Read More

BJL – The Big Job Lie first today. (This is nearly a Peoplenomics® length piece, so we can focus on just the charts on the subscriber side tomorrow…bring extra bean.) The well-controlled, agency-influenced corporate media’s take on the jobs report just out is based on what in the press release from Labor? Total nonfarm payroll employment … Read More