Latest Case-Shiller/S&P report just out: “Data released today for January 2023 show that the trend of declining home price gains continued across the United States with declining prices reported in the San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, and Seattle markets. YEAR-OVER-YEAR The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census … Read More
I’ve been up since 1 AM today, working on our “next big thing” over on the Peoplenomics side. This report will be available for subscribers tomorrow morning. Beside some neat “science of consciousness” work we’ll present the anatomy of a day trade which “bought lunch” for us Monday. Housing data will be out at 8 … Read More
Why, looking at the early futures (Dow +200) you’d think that the skies were about to part and the rally into the close Friday might continue. ‘fraid not. But, the good news for old day traders is that the markets always “swing” so there’s usually a lunch money trade, or two, lying around. Still, it’s … Read More
Ah, the Country Life. Yessir, if you live in the Big City, it’s a dream. Why, just imagine! Eating fresh food out of your own garden. Pure country air. No traffic noises. Low stress. Ultimately relaxing and rewarding…. Well, no. Not exactly. During our ShopTalk Sunday adventures will tell you the upside – and the downsides … Read More
No question, Price is the big factor in day trading. But when comes to Futuring, prepping, and staying the hell out of harm’s way, time signals in the market are where it’s at. Paradoxically, higher price prediction confidence rises, the lower time confidence drops. This incestuous relationship buggers up everything from military intelligence assessments to … Read More
Earth Time Piling Up: A large cluster of bad ju-ju is presenting its leading edge, just now. We see it across many of our “Seven Systems/Domains” model and it seems the next 60-days will be key to our future. Regardless of your partisan leanings (*they’re mainly a marketing division, anyway) the list of existential challenges … Read More
Hard to make sense of the world through press off ejaculate “pressers” which artfully pick and choose morality to suit agitprop goals. However, through the lenses of history and economics, a pattern begins to fill in. And so, as near as we can figure it, the Weimar (II) has been saved by Powell as the … Read More
Life Extension has a hard limit defined by personal income over time. Wife Elaine nailed it at breakfast Monday when she said “You can’t have one without the Other.” Life extension mainly costs money and investments usually cost time. Today, we’ll look at this balancing problem. And begin to draw an odd kind of outlook … Read More
The rally that stopped us out after a modest bear side short Monday continued into the market close. And the hell of it is? It’s likely to continue today. OK – fine. Rallies happen. And we did tell Peoplenomics subscribers on Saturday that: “Our favored view is higher Monday and Tuesday with Fed errors (raising anyway) … Read More
There is a saying in technical analysis: “You can have Price, or you can have Time. But you can’t have them both, together.” I’ve been trading stocks since 1971, and even with more than half a century of investing, picking both time and price has been a vexation. Yes, we know the world will end in … Read More
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
Between Banking (and “special treatment for the rich”) along with one war hot, one brewing, a former president facing a possible perp-walk, and rampant inflation in hard assets, it’s a hard weekend not to have the jitters. Sorry to say: We can’t alleviate too many. But, our steely-eyed view of things will remind you that … Read More
The temps dropped in East Texas overnight. The leading edge of expressed “bitterness” in the coming weeks and even months. A period with more of an Angostura bent than most. Tomorrow night, we’ll kiss freezing out here, but that should be the last of Nature’s winter. Man’s winter will be measured in years. In Economic … Read More