The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I got up Sunday, put in the ground screw anchors for my next little deck-building adventure and then did my ham radio antenna engineering work. Everything was sailing along great and then I walked into the house from the screen porch. At which time I smashed … Read More
Before we launch into our Sunday morning diatribe, consider it a duty to pause and pay respects to the laborers who built this country from barren land to a place where odd crops like DEI can flourish. We remember when Labor was actually able to partner with the Ownership Class and do some pretty neat … Read More
More musings into the Princeton EGGs as we ponder the state of congruence and entrainment further. Of course, a short column because it is the holiday weekend, after all. And I did win the Scotch bet but Tuesday will be another day. Lots of distance to travel before then. So a few headlines, a ramble … Read More
I guess the first thing I should explain is why the current Global Consciousness Project “Dot” is appearing somewhere, over there (arrows right –>). Glad you asked. I’m going to give you the “whole walk-through” but in super abbreviated form because we don’t have all day. So, from the top… Humans are special. On the one … Read More
By now, everyone knows that I put a small wager on with my consigliere that the market would not hit new highs on our Aggregate Index by Labor Day. He took the bet and with the pre-Nvidia beat-down two things happened Wednesday. Even with a phat cheeseburger, fries, shakes at the local burger drive-through (about $32 … Read More
Are anti-aging effects additive and cumulative? Today we have some insights in our latest (non-medical) book. Where I write about my personal experiments with anti-aging protocols that don’t involve expensive prescriptions. A slog through some headlines is in order including the latest – silly – reindictment of Donald Trump by a Democratville Grand jury. After … Read More
It’s the level, though – that’s what matters: the S&P Housing numbers say full steam inflation. 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 5.4% annual gain in June, down from 5.9% the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in at 7.4%, down from 7.8% the previous … Read More
Macroeconomics first. When “times are good” people run out and buy houses. Smart thing to do because the government – unable to live within a budget – overspends all the time. And, as we discussed in the Monday column, ten bucks’ worth of “stuff” in 1913 is over $800 today. People buy homes generally knowing … Read More
We have it all this morning – just like it matters. Let’s begin with the government’s Durable Goods report which is stated this way: “New Orders New orders for manufactured durable goods in July, up five of the last six months, increased $26.1 billion or 9.9 percent to $289.6 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced … Read More
There is the scent of Fall in the air. And with it, my interest in doing yard work is on the rise. Besides, Mercury goes out of retrograde this week. If you don’t follow retrograde, this episode is running August 5–28: In Virgo and Leo. My life goes to crap about 3-4 weeks ahead of … Read More
We begin today decoding Jerome Powell’s remarks Friday. Then I’ll tell you what we think will happen when the Fed decision is announced in three weeks. Then we go through the charts and they hold an interesting picture of potential Future; one where you might want to consider redeployment of assets to life-basics planning like … Read More
Which Worry List? My, that one’s a bitch to figure because it’s so, um, you know, age dependent. In the very short-term, if you are young (and politically involved) you could cite the coronation by the demon scraps last night of their anointed one: Harris vows ‘new way forward’ for America as she… Yeah, no more … Read More
Before we dig in, a couple of “housekeeping notes.” First is that the long-awaited adjustments to the (excessively hyped) job creation claims were dialed back a bit this week. And any armchair economist can see, the official number of people employed in July was only 57,000 more than in the same period a year ago … Read More