What is the “news?” Not to be too cynical (who, me?) but there is damn little of what is passed-off as “news” that is genuinely and personally useful. The main aspect of “news” – after 50-years of chasing it, or making it – is that which will impact my life today and is different from … Read More
It’s hard to be a lone voice of sanity in a mostly crazy (present company excepted) world. Take this email from a colleague. Fellow is the “smartest guy in the room” which comes to economics but in politics? Not so much. I don’t think he’d mind me sharing bit of his email as it’s a … Read More
While this is a state and federal holiday, the forces of political correctness, particularly what some academics call The Network’s embeds in the national media, will have no problem using the occasion to bash the Trump administration because (in case you’re too distracted to notice) Trump, el al, don’t have any problem being sovereign individuals. The … Read More
As most readers will remember, I have been writing a new book (non-fiction) that while terribly interesting, also seems to tie together a world of diverse woo-woo phenomena. We tie, for example, a 1970 reported “flight through a time warp” with things like the Philadelphia Experiment, odd disappearances and happenings along certain crustal over-thrust areas … Read More
Our topic this morning? How to compress knowledge. Or, more properly, how to restructure it so it becomes much more useful and accessible than it presently is. In other words, we eye the transition from idiotically verbose knowledge to “distilled knowledge” of the sort that fits into fields of a database. After, that is, we … Read More
Latest from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is just out: “The unemployment rate declined to 4.2 percent in September, and total nonfarm payroll employment changed little (-33,000), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. A sharp employment decline in food services and drinking places and below-trend growth in some other industries likely reflected the … Read More
This morning’s speculation is thanks to our Peoplenomics subscribers. As I’ve repeatedly mentioned, they provide for the “Fortress of Solitude” where we go to work on what Cal Newport would call Deep Work (Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World). We have written extensively of this concept on the Peoplenomics side, though little on the … Read More
Been going through FAA records today to track the history of a Cirrus SR-20 once owned by the LV shooter. Turns out the aircraft was sold to a person in Virginia, and that person then sold the aircraft to a Virginia LLc. What makes the story interesting to us is that when the plane was … Read More
You need some background before we get into the details of efforts to cover-up the LV shooter suspect apparently owning an airplane and apparent revisions to records to cover that up. First from military affair contributor “Warhammer”… “A few folks are doing some dirt digging into how the Vegas ‘fish barrel faux pas’ could have … Read More
As you’d expect, my consigliere and I have been talking almost non-stop since his arrival, with occasional comments from Elaine. One of our topics Wednesday involved genetics and whether there are genuinely “good” and “bad” people. My consigliere explained that early in his legal career as a public defender he became convinced that genetic do … Read More
My consigliere and I will be sitting down today to spend some serious time on long wave economic issues and things going on around the ranch. One of our top discussion items today will be what happens when the Pension Bubble blows up? It is coming you know… But first, a few headlines and the … Read More
Terrible as the killer rampage in Las Vegas was Sunday night, there is often a tendency when a “big event” has just shocked the nation to ignore a lot of other stories going on in background. It’s like a “flash-in-the-pan” that arrests the national attention. So instead of a list of videos, eyewitness accounts, and … Read More
As my consigliere is wandering in this direction, I wanted to be really clear that the main purpose of his visit is not to work with me on oddball ideas about busting through into other dimensions. While it’s fun to focus on warping space-time, attempting to move directional shifts around, and levitating objects, making money … Read More