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Had the damn thing done and clicked “post” and the thing was deletyed somehow.  Damn! More as I either fix or rewrite!   G

My, ain’t ole Mr. Ure chipper and happy? Well, no. Some of the best shopping of the year (Amazon Prime Day is tomorrow) at the very time the Economic Sunset of America gets rolling with Wave 3 down. I mean the juxtaposition of this is flat-ass amazing. 1929 Meets WW 1 We’ve been here before, right?  … Read More

All three tube-type oscilloscopes are gone.  So’s a signal tracer, two full-sized vacuum tube voltmeters (VTVM’s). And an early Heathkit Signal generator. Poof.  In a cloud of fury powered by Mrs. Olson. Headed to eBaying in future weeks. (Email me if interested.) I’ve decided that for the balance of my seventies, I’m going to focus … Read More

Biden’s War Party seems to be doing its damnedest to usher in Global War in August. But first… How About Jobs? Dandy trading session. Although my expected rally into today’s close was muted.  We expected a decline at the open.  But from its session lows, the Dow rose from a session low of 33,771.47 to … Read More

Give that Economy a big spin! (If you haven’t noticed, there is HUGE spin on nearly every data point and news story even remotely connected to People’s Wallets…) Jobs Blowout ADP job creation numbers, the Challenger Job Cuts, and the Labor data on new unemployment filings. Let’s start with the 497,000 new hires which blew by … Read More

Celebrate while you can. Financial markets are closed today in faux Americana. But they’ll be along tomorrow. In the meantime, the Big Predicament has not changed. Let’s begin with the Labor and Income ledger.  Raise your hand if you are making more – on a real purchasing power parity basis – than you were a year ago.  Or, … Read More

According to reports out of France early today, the widespread rioting has calmed down.  Only 157-arrests overnight, according to this report: French police arrests fall sharply to 157 during sixth night of unrest (france24.com). Still, the French experience raises some troubling questions for us about how modern communications channels allow for “social contagious” – like … Read More

Today, we’re going to turn you into a competent basic radio operator.  It may be a much longer report than usual, but it’s a four-day weekend for many, so what the hell, right? Much of this morning’s discussion will apply to radios other than the ATS-25 (and its many variants) that may be purchased on … Read More

The biggest “news item” around here is the “down time” over this 2,3,4, or 5-day weekend for the Fourth of July celebrations.  Around here – living in the 56th largest county in Texas – at 1,078 square miles – most of it heavily forested in pines and mixed hardwoods – our biggest concern is fires.  … Read More

Sure, Joe Biden gets a lot of things wrong.  BUT, when it comes to aging, the latest chapter in the American Political Psychodrama about Biden’s age seems headed into the ditch. You see, Joe Biden’s been wearing a CPAP machine and…so what? More than 8-million Americans use one of these devices.  Continuous Positive Airway Pressure … Read More

Case-Shiller monthly take on the Housing market is just out. “YEAR-OVER-YEAR The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a -0.2% annual decrease in April, down from a gain of 0.7% in the previous month. The 10-City Composite showed a decrease of -1.2%, down from the … Read More

This morning’s “second cup brainchild” is some insight into how “Reality” is manifested at the macro level. The key aspect of which is how the GMC (global mass consciousness) is always, continuously, voting on the Future. This harks back to the Schrödinger’s Cat principle of quantum mechanics.  Which posits whether a cat, placed in a … Read More