10-Mowing Tips for would-be groundskeepers is our topic this morning. No, we didn’t really need 30-acres. We could have gotten by with two acres per person, just fine. But I had this wild dream years back when I was running a vocational school: I wanted to open a “heavy equipment school” so that the masses of … Read More
Suppose, for a moment, that your “future self” could write a letter to your “present-day self” and offer pointers navigating what’s to come. While it would make an interesting book – there’s so much to cover – it also makes a pretty interesting column. Although such a letter could be “personal” there are many aspects … Read More
The Future is sometimes terribly easy to see. But, when you look at it square-on, it can be really ugly. As a result, faced with a declining set of prospects of achieve “health, wealth, and happiness” people turn their faces. Averting their gaze is what America is doing a lot of right now. Tomorrow, an … Read More
Pick a disaster…plenty to choose from…no crowding, social distance, please! And so begins another Thursday. Besides the Fed data on “jacking up the money supply” – after the close today – there is the small matter of the implosion of the once middle-class in ‘Merica, as revealed in the Wednesday consumer debt report. In it, … Read More
Toss the fish oil? Sleep on the ground? Throw your water in the blender first? Yes, the Mad Scientist and his beautiful assistant have been at it again. Reading and pondering where Ponce de Leon hid the Fountain. Which we will get into as soon as we find Eldorado, or its early desktop analog – … Read More
Little real economic news to begin the morning. Oh, sure: Italian retail sales and Denmark’s industrial product matter…if you’re Italian or Danish. It won’t be until an hour before tomorrow’s close that we’ll see the U.S. Consumer Credit (né Debt) will be revealed. With it, comes reassurance that we’re still spending way more (as a … Read More
Massive relief rally early. But after that…who knows? As we begin the week, there isn’t much ahead until the Fed’s “Consumer Debt” report. Wednesday. Which they call consumer “credit” because they are creditors. We’re the simple-sap debtors… To us, it’s a reasonable time to reload for the fall and what could be another round of … Read More
My bad. I missed Ham Radio Field Day. It was last weekend. As happens the last weekend in June each year, amateur radio operators (include from our club in town) and my buddy The Major‘s club is up in the Seattle area; he and some buds headed for the hills and remotest of places. From … Read More
I couldn’t just sleep-in. Had something on my mind that we need to watch for in coming weeks That is, if “spider sense” means anything outside of Marvel-space. I hope you’re having a dandy weekend and this will be mainly an expansion and continuation of the thinking that I outlined on the free side (Urban) … Read More
Or, “How to Steal Without Robbing….” Yeah, you’d think you can’t “steal from someone” without robbing them, right? For mere mortals, the likes of us, that’d be the case. But in the CRAZY world of Made Up Money (*disguised as “Modern Monetary Theory” which is a misleading label for Marxist Monetary Theory, which is turn … Read More
We have two “stories that matter” in addition to the continually soars, jacked-up-on-cash shit-show previously known as the Stock Market. Normally, given the serious hit to both employment and economic activity, stocks would decline to lower levels of equilibrium as risk and reward rebalance. However, with the (not really) Federal (and with no…) Reserve, save … Read More
Oh no! George has roughed out another book idea. And subscribers will vote the project up or down. I hope it will be a harder choice than the choice in the fall election. Before that, a bit of pre-holiday news to go over and the market charts, of course as well.,.. More for Subscribers ||| … Read More
Incomplete data due to CV-19 in Detroit area. 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 4.7% annual gain in April, up from 4.6% in the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in at 3.4%, remaining the same as last month. The … Read More