ShopTalk Sunday: Kill the ‘Maters? Rethink Design

After we hold a 7-second religious observance, we’re likely to take the tomatoes off Life Support this week.  “Hang on till Tuesday, little ‘maters!” I finally had time this week to follow-up on my own advice in the recent Tomato report.  One of my open items on the list was to pick up a good … Read More

Concretizing the Future

A short lesson today on how the future news events do move in tandem with the future.  That is, if you’re one of the “intelligencia” who understands how news is often-times a sheep shearing tool for the rich. The word “concretizing” may not be familiar to you. The word, Oxford Languages tells us, really began … Read More

Jobs – Sifting Important from the Urgent – Open Skies

It’s a key concept of effective time management.  Sorting out what is important – and it bounds how the desired future comes about.  Which can be an entirely different animal than what seems to be urgent. With summer rolling by already (since Memorial Day), though “officially” not for two weeks yet, we are seeing the … Read More

Crash Delayed – Job Numbers – War Anyway

We have started to move our “daily word count” down.  No more 2,000-word rambles because there’s no point. Future is “locking”. Two “Clocks” that Matter As you may be aware, the stock market hit a new (nominal, Aggregate) high Wednesday.  this follows our Peoplenomics.com report Saturday that we are facing a “Screaming Rally or Crash” … Read More

3 Ways to Live, 5 ways to Die

My, ain’t this an odd topic for a (nominally) financial (and other interests) website?  Well, not really. But today we go a bit deep on the part of “making a killing” that involves us personally. We inspect the choice we each will face when “comes time to go.” Before we drill into that, however, the … Read More

Beat Down – Jump Up – Ides of Next Looming

We continue searching for Ground Truth in the origins of “Word Up.“ But so far to no avail. Hot Date?  Try 10 AM this morning  – Labor Department’s Job Openings, Layoff’s, Terminations, and Separations (JOLTS) report may live up to its name with this insanely manic mess of a market. First, the Beat Down Not to be … Read More

Distilled Monday: Rally, Jobs, War, Weather

Although the price of Bitcoin was stuck just under $69,000 when checked before pounding out the column, we are concerned that inflation is becoming an institutional fixture.  Which means a harder landing ahead. Unless the hype is right: Bitcoin could top $150k in Q3 2025, chart veteran Peter Brandt says (crypto.news). The problem with a … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: Instrumentation of Tomatoes

Today as a public service, we’re going to install a green thumb on each reader with enough patience to learn the fine art of reading and thinking about what they’ve read, a bit. Study Materials First Before launching into my latest Industrial Arts need to be Rediscovered diatribe, we should first review today’s syllabus in … Read More

Screaming Rally or Collapse?

Just when the Bears were lining up for a “Big One…”  As a result of following long wave economic influences on markets for a quarter century in our Peoplenomics reports, is that it has provided time to come up with interesting “Early Warning Indicators.” As you will see in this morning’s ChartPack,  one of these … Read More

The Real Problem is 2025 – Kangaroo Kourt Follies

There is a huge pre-election distraction being played out in America this summer.  It reopens in July – the 11th – when the “convicted” Donald Trump will face sentencing after being the first American president in history convicted of a felony. There’s a long list of legal flaws in what we have come to think … Read More

Market Fear – Data Salad – New Prepping Threat Considered

Fear. You can smell it in the markets.  Yet this is only the first whiff.  The kind you get off the stockyards along I-40 up in the Texas Panhandle, long before Amarillo.  Palpable. Fortunately, also tradeable. Fear Looks Like This: Discussion:  First, this is an Aggregate Index. Second is the (yellow, large) Wave 2 up may … Read More

The Unprepared States of America

Just as I was writing this morning’s column on Tuesday, a wild storm line went through and we haven’t see power since.  There’s even a chance we won’t get power back until Thursday or even Friday. The good news for us is that we have a generator and transfer switch plus all those golf dart … Read More

Abnormal Operations

Our usual publishing is way off schedule today. We had a set of severe thunderstorms go through the area Tuesday morning and honestly, we have no idea when the power will be back on line.  The generator is working like a champ, but until the extra kick from the solar comes back up (around 10 … Read More