Out of Tune Thursday! Don’t look now, but that grand economist Rod Stewart said it best: “Every Picture Tells a Story, Don’t It?“ Why, if George Thorogood (corrected) offered econometric models, this would be Bad to the Bone. To quote from the press release this morning: “CHICAGO, June 6, 2019 – U.S.-based employers announced plans to … Read More
Lies about Money and Labor. There are a couple of axioms that we roll through not to mention the various kinds of “money” out there. World does great at optimizing senseless digits. But average work-hours to live numbers? Forgetaboutit! Our current fave is pseudo-money – the made-up diggery digital spunk. Which, if you argue the … Read More
While I wasn’t going to write (free) columns on Wednesday, I just had to give some high praise to Microsoft on the recent update to Win-10 v. 1903 which was released a couple of weeks back. It’s stable, love the new features, but there are also a couple of install snags that we ran into … Read More
In our Aggregate Index view of things, we have now declined far enough that a short spike to the upside for a day or two might be in the works. As always, not advice of any sort, but a report on where the dart landed this morning. Why would the market go up? Sell in … Read More
We begin today with a case of woo-woo. Hell of a lot more interesting than just talking money and long wave economics all the time… As I’ve told you (uncountable times), I have oneironautic dreams. I “go places.” Some people would call this astral projection of out of body experience, but I don’t label it. … Read More
Today: Limits to Growth: People, Resources, and Money. But, far more important, in our “Replaying 1929” charts, we have this week a broken critical support and the gates of hell may be getting ready to open earlier than anyone planned. We’ll run you through the charts and a prediction of an S&P 500 below 2,000 … Read More
“The secret to effective time management is learning to “pre-live” your Life.” Recently, in one of our comment section remarks, a reader asked if I would give a short summary of my personal time management approach because I seem to get so much done. You may not like some of what follows because it’s not how … Read More
SynGro: Short for Synthetic Growth and a long-term event-sequencing for socialist global domination. (Although not a socialist can articulate it since the strategy has been hijacked by State Actors, but follow along because this all makes total sense…) Let me lay this out as one might in a PowerPoint so you can follow along. Mexico is paying … Read More
It’s a morning where not a ton of creative is required on my part. It’s just a pile of economic news releases and some of these are bound to matter. We can go through it bay agency. Bureau of Economic Analysis has a new GDP annd Corporate Profits report out. Here are the sing-along lyrics: … Read More
How did the entire world get sucked into its excessive consumption addiction? This morning, we look at some of the people, inventions, and circumstances that have paved the way. But first, a look at a very few headlines and a HUGE problem forming in our view of markets. The future, at least in some chart … Read More
Almost the “hot months” here in East Texas. During June through the end of September, going outside can be a miserable task because it’s usually 80 F by 9:00 AM and the heat doesn’t really break until after sunset. 100-105 is not uncommon to these parts and it may not break under 85-90 till past … Read More
Just out from Case-Shiller/S&P/CoreLogic: “NEW YORK, MAY 28, 2019 – S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices. Data released today for March 2019 shows that the rate of home price increases across the U.S. has continued to slow.” “YEAR-OVER-YEAR The … Read More
Writing a new book for our Peoplenomics.com subscribers (hoping to whip out Chapter 2 today). The title of it is “The 100-Year Toaster.” First chapter was up Saturday, for subscribers who missed it. Since this is a four-day workweek for many, it’s a grand time to ponder one of the central tenets of the book: … Read More