PPI – UI Filings – Meandering to Down Markets

The Mexico Invasion begins anew today.  We’ll get to that down the page so as not to get topic-banned in search… ahem… Let’s instead start the day with P.P.I. – Producer Price Index – numbers.  Because while we are still shocked at the stupidity of [controlled] media running up someone’s book in the market Wednesday, PPI … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: On Your Mower? Get Set…

Although I got a lot done this week, including some long-winded columns both here and on the Peoplenomics site, the two greatest accomplishments in making for a better spring were getting our income taxes done and repairing the lawnmower. “Wait?  The NEW Mower?“ Yeah, buddy.  The NEW mower.  Which we bought from Lowes, and which … Read More

Retirement at 70? Housing Due, Broiling

We have been telling you for years:  If you are young, don’t expect to retire until at least 68 – and as of this morning it looks like the FRA (full retirement age) could be bumped to 70. Take a careful read of A bipartisan group of Senators is talking about raising the retirement age … Read More

Year-end Mini Rally – Reasonable Outlook for 2023

The market today will be starting (based on early futures) with a modest upside bias.  Which is due after the “downstroke” of the M that we posited earlier. Our outlook continues to expect a major decline in over-priced housing over the next six-months. Not to Be Conspiratorial But… My consigliere and I are both very worried … Read More

Feds Pre-Bunked Hunter L/T, Meandering Markets

WHAT???!!! No mention of the Hunter Biden revelations about Social Media and the FBI  on the front page of the big DC paper this morning? But you already knew that, right?  Huge story in the tech-competent thinking class, though.  Language matters:  Stonewall Idiom Definition (grammarist.com)  With good reason… Miranda Devine of the New York Post is … Read More

Shoptalk Sunday: Build a Home Studio & Radio Station (#1)

Since one of my (purported) skills is broadcasting, every so often a reader wonders “Why not do an STS article on how to have a super home sound system? Well, OK, this can be really short (“do what sounds best to you”) or really long.  Which begins like this: Inputs & Speakers Matter  Long ago, … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: Ham Radio, Tool Kits, Lean-To’s, WinLawns

Our starting point this morning is a thank-you nod to the 3806 KHz (LSB) ham radio crew which is around overnights on the weekend.  Spent some quality time with ’em this morning making antenna measurements in order to figure out what’s next for the Antenna Dept. You see, Winter isn’t far off.  And that’s when … Read More

A Spiritual Key to Anti-Aging?

The idea of a “lost spiritual technology” that may slow (or halt) the Aging Process is up this morning.  Wide-ranging discussion, too.  Everything from latest results in transcranial low level laser work, which we described in our “Light Crown” project here in 2016, to some interesting results using “earthing” as a strategy to augment Covid-19 … Read More

Retail Trifecta – and a Real Woo-Woo Story

We begin this morning with “the Numbers” and acknowledge in passing that even in market declines at the Macro level, there are still noisy trading patterns that require the occasional rally in order to square the books of otherwise runaway trend traders. Retail Sales First OK, retail is up 1 percent.  Meaningless to us. Reason?  Prices.  … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: Love of Acetylene

Some while back, I mentioned that I’d picked up the Chineseum welder model similar to what’s on Amazon – like this one ($28) – which is “similar-to” the very reliable Smith Little Torch which – at $155 – is a shade more expensive. Before my review of the offshore entry, a few words contexting things for … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: BTC Note, Power Carving & A Course in Magick

A Sunday Financial note:  the price of Bitcoin dropped to $17,986.50 overnight as the digital tulip wilt continues in the summer heat. Because the stock market is locked in a decline mirroring the 1929 -1933 collapse to a high level, we therefore anticipate a continuing decline before a washout in a week or several. Problem … Read More

Thinking Over “Detirement”

This is really a report on faddish Accounting, because it drives so much else. Including retirement. Or, given there is a shortage of workers in the country, de-retirement. Jacob Soll’s book The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations provided some of the impetus for the ideas herein. Soll’s  next book, Free … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: eBaying into Vintage Tools

Since this is a holiday weekend, and except for go-fast cars and boozing it up a bit, and not much else going on, I thought we could spend today on Tool Slut Education. So, people new to (pissing away ungodly amounts of money on) vintage tools will get to know some of the makers and … Read More

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