Coming up on 3 AM out here in East Texas. Very pleasant night talking to George Noory on Coast-to-Coast (some additional show note links are in the next post). Back to bed and sleeping in – which I’ve only been able to do once in a long while. Need to get up and pop the … Read More
A few additional items to read up on if you’re interesting in anti-aging medicine: Sand pile model collapse: Avalanche Structure in the Kadanoff Sand Pile Model | SpringerLink The TRIIM-X study: Study Details | Thymus Regeneration, Immunorestoration, and Insulin Mitigation Extension Trial | ClinicalTrials.gov Golfers live five-years longer? Golf: a game of life and death–reduced … Read More
Root Canal Tuesday leads to Coast-to-Coast Wednesday night which then segues into Turkey Thursday around here. But before we roll, some important housekeeping items for even our non-subscribers to the $40/year Peoplenomics site. Safe Computing Reminders: We are at “peak hacking” between now and early January. Don’t open emails you aren’t expecting. Next, make sure … Read More
Lest Case-Schiller S&P Housing numbers are just out: “S&P CORELOGIC CASE-SHILLER INDEX RECORDS 3.9% ANNUAL GAIN IN SEPTEMBER 2024 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 3.9% annual gain in September, down from 4.3% the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in … Read More
With a house guest (our consigliere) time has been a little tighter than usual. But a scan of the headlines today says there is a bit of uneven lurching into the future that might be characterized as Productive. Texas – home to Elon, Joe Rogan, and…um…us… continues to be a national trends-setter with Univ of Austin, … Read More
Chicago Fed first, then a rally. But Housing looms tomorrow. Even so, with some possible Housing regret, it won’t last long because turkey is lurking this week. We can also see the broad sweep of history, as we have now lived through the entire transition from “National Call Your Broker Day” – which was what … Read More
With our house guest due here in about 12 hours, we are going through the last-minute detailing of this, that, and the other thing. Elaine keeps getting sidetracked with the feral cats and there are all these nifty “Buy Now!” emails – making it hard to get things really done. Tool Slut or Check Slut? … Read More
Sure, turkey is due, but there’s a GDP report next week which could break the Big Bubble. So we begin with a discussion of that. Of course, we will begin with a few news headlines – because this is what’s driving the discussion. And we won’t get too worked up over things, except to say … Read More
The Road to War is now rolling over into Electric Avenue with a potentially shocking escalation looming as the Ukraine War on Russia is – in market terms – sub-dividing. I better explain that concept a bit. The runaway rally of the global markets should – under many concepts of valuation – have peaked several times over. … Read More
You are on the Titanic. The band is playing on. The iceberg has been hit. A red line has been crossed. In the small world of credible “seers” and “prognosticators” there is Big Trouble just ahead. A break. And then the Biggest and Worst. A great starting point is G.A. Stewart’s latest piece on The Age … Read More
Maybe threats of global nuclear war and a severe toothache got me pondering the topic. I don’t know. But since we are all going to die, it may be worth a short discussion of our mental constructs, frameworks, and plans for investing in that little-discussed area of human existence. Oh, sure, we will do the … Read More
Biden democrats – infiltrated and manipulated by neocons (turned libcons) – and with implants all around State and the alphabet agencies – appear ready to spawn World War III before the year is done. A HUGE indicator that should cause any rational person great angst has just happened as Putin Issues Warning to U.S. With … Read More
Pardon me, but the headlines out this morning are close to absolute proof that the Biden-Harris coup is the War Party. How else do you account for Biden authorizes Ukraine to use US-supplied longer range missiles for deeper strikes inside Russia? To keep the record clear – because there’s a huge press on to rewrite … Read More