It was a rather remarkable lunch this week; a couple of guys who have know each other for 63-years – been friends the whole time – and are still learning from one-another’s adventures in Life. We somehow got onto the topic of suicide. My pal, being a retired Army major in the mental health care … Read More
OK kiddies, gather around the roulette wheel as we spin up this morning on the Fed Meeting which is going on today and we’re due for a rate decision this afternoon. The market – which usually bashed the Fed soundly with a worrisome decline before each decision – has been in demo-mortis – death by … Read More
Hot off the press release: NEW YORK, July 26, 2016 – 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 May 2016 shows that home prices continued their rise across the country over the last 12 months. More … Read More
Fact is, most of the U.S. has them. N o, I don’t mean the politicians…although they are full of venom this time of year… One of the cool things about being in the Pacific Northwest, however briefly, is we don’t have to look down and move things around with a rake first to ensure we … Read More
(Tacoma, WA) — The art of “seeing future” is not a difficult thing, although much woo-woo is attached to it: Since about 90 percent of life is prescheduled, we can actually make very short-term forecasts of how the future will roll out with some degree of confidence Let me show you what I mean: Let’s … Read More
Wake Ure ass up, comrade… it’s Monday and the Revolution is on. Sunday, the hordes were out marching for Bernie and against fracking. While they were doing that, Ures truly was pondering how the ultimate reasonable balance between energy sources might be reached. It seems the revolution – much talked about, but little evident from … Read More
That’d be the reason to campaign in Spanish when running for American high office, right? We depart from our usual weekend of relaxation to spend hours upon hours reading the highly entertaining non-consensual sex play in the democratic party…which has been brought to light by Wikileaks.org. It’s all about how to screw Bernie Sanders – … Read More
(Tacoma, WA) — With the markets obediently following my calls (surprising even me, mind you) we will have a nice, short, to the point discussion of the charts this morning and we can kick around what I’m doing in the way of a position once we get through the second half of the political silly … Read More
The stock market is NOT on the verge of collapse this morning. That’s just one indicator that Donald Trump may be the real deal that democrats fear most. You see, after a successful conclusion to the convention, if Trump was really seen widely as a danger to business, the market would be screaming this – … Read More
Now that we have a short break between the political gatherings, before the democrats nominate a woman better suited to receiving a felony indictment than Oval Office occupancy, how about we focus on something a little more positive? Like this: What is the Next American Frontier? We have been through several: When I was young, … Read More
I’m not really one to talk about people who have two standards because I don’t take such people in high regard. Yet, when Ted Cruz last night refused to come out and endorse his party’s nominee for the presidency, that was about the last straw. When the primary mess began, wasn’t Cruz one of the … Read More
(Tacoma, WA) – This morning’s update is a little more brief than usual due to Microsoft “updating” my computer for a good part of the time that should have been spent writing. Grrrrr…. Onto the first point: I happened to be listening to an ad on the radio while we were driving up here from … Read More
(Tacoma, WA) — This morning’s report will come out a bit strangely becvause Microsoft decideed to apply a software update to my main computer – so this morning’s report is coming – an hour later than normal) from Elaine’s. As a result, we will have only the financial report this morning, but rest assured, there … Read More