Swear to God, most of us could take this week off. Sure, some of the regular bond auctions and a trade figure Tuesday. But for the most part this is one of those weeks that Editors hate. There’s hardly enough to write about. Scheduling the Week For one, there is a chance that in this … Read More
(The Origins of this Project are here.) OK, depending on where you live, this is a two or three seasons deal. But when we do a little project – like our new ‘mini tent stove‘ patio, cat playground, outdoor bar, sometimes breakfast cooking spot – it’s fun to actually show how it works. World’s Longest … Read More
Shocking rise of markets this week that almost has the odor of manipulation. But it may portend the “worst news ever” (nukwar?) based on “buy the rumor, sell the news” theory. Which is almost as interesting, though not of as much usefulness, as our latest adventures into past life regressions. As few headlines and coffee … Read More
The departure this week of a “squad” of Benjamins worth of account value from my Lunch Money trading account, brought (somewhat brutally) to my attention that we are now likely in Wave 3 Down, of which we had (1) down seeming to complete and we are likely in the rally to be associated with Wave 3 … Read More
“You’re down HOW much on this rally?” About a Cleveland. It’s old Grover on the $1,000 bill, you know. Being down a “couple of Benjamin’s” ($100’s) was a minor irritation, in comparison. Thing is though, if you don’t periodically test your theories with real money, it’s all BS. Besides, the system I have now (if followed instead of … Read More
Hot jobs numbers have just dropped before we get into that. And sure, a check of some headlines. Humans really are, though, inefficient machines. Especially when comes to investing. Also: our ChartPack is now in a nearly ideal position to rollover, or is that under? Plus we have the Fed rate decision coming this afternoon. … Read More
Too hot to keep the odds of another Fed hike at zero? NEW YORK, OCTOBER 31, 2023: S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) 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 August 2023 show that 13 of the 20 major metro … Read More
Breaking: Employment Costs Just out from Labor: “Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 1.1 percent, seasonally adjusted, for the 3-month period ending in September 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Wages and salaries increased 1.2 percent and benefit costs increased 0.9 percent from June 2023. Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 4.3 … Read More
As our Peoplenomics readers know, we didn’t carry a short position over the weekend. There were already too many people last week talking about how a “Crash” might be at hand early this week. That is still possible-to-likely. But as my late mentor Robin Landry schooled me “Markets will always make their waves…” Considering the Dow … Read More
Huge personal insights have been arriving almost daily since I started a course on accessing past lives. Schlepping gear through southeast Africa in overgrown bush like a rail right of way in 1925? A newspaper (like this one) was somehow involved. Me? Safari local laborer? What the…??? (The George life 1798 story on the Peoplenomics … Read More
We did mention “OEB” means October Ends Badly”? That was the UrbanSurvival headline Monday of this week. When I wrote that, our (meta) Aggregate Index stood at 36,044.20. Friday of this week? The close was 35,159.17. Almost a 2-1/2 percent loss. This doesn’t seem like a lot. Unless you consider that the U.S. economy is … Read More
In a word, maybe. But maybe not. Takes a bit of explaining. Follow along here because this is like “financial detective work.” To begin with, the Big Picture as of the 5 AM-ish Futures pricing was running to the upside. The reason is that in our Aggregate Index work – as we showed Thursday – we still needed … Read More
The Murder Cycle is back. 22 dead in Maine and 30 injured. Military firearms instructor shot up a bowling alley and a bar. There is a person of interest and he is still at large. No school in Lewiston, Maine today. The Murder Cycle is “soft” – a range of 130-150 days. Making this one … Read More