Housing Data Up as Market “Walks the Line”

Monday on a Tuesday – cool invention!  Is this a great country, or what? Because of the “breaking” natures of events, the submarine search is better handled by outfits like Sky News. Housing Vs. Interest Rates Just dropped by the FedGov is today’s report on Housing Starts. What gets to be the “interesting calculus going … Read More

Life on Holiday “Hold”

G2 wandered through at quarter-to-four AM – on his way to “Cheat the Devil out of some Souls” in emergency medicine – some people actually have to work today… “Pretty much how it works, Dad.  Looks deceptively easy from the 30-thousand-foot level…” He was referring to a flowchart I’d been pondering: While difficult, it’s not impossible. Review … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: Buggy 3D Prints at Invention Alley

A short rap on Mental Topologies is a useful (Big Brain People) prequel today. “Regular” understanding of IQ as a semi-Gaussian normal distribution” among humans is oh so terribly flawed I could just wet myself. See, dimensioning humans (rendering concepts down to 2D) is hopeless Reductionism for the mentally short-changed. Multispectral Humanity becomes apparent as a … Read More

Biden’s (Internet) Hostage Crisis?

Digital preparedness has been one focus on the UrbanSurvival.com site this week.  Now the “reason why” is coming into focus with headlines today like U.S. Energy Dept gets two ransom notices as MOVEit hack claims more victims have been crossing. Normally, were it a corporation, there would likely have been a major uptick in Bitcoin … Read More

Market Rally? “Double Holiday Weekend” Driving…

In fairness – although no one has a clue about that, anymore – the market had already rallied to a potential key-reversal level Tuesday and Wednesday.  What many simply forgot was the old saying “Beware pre-holiday rallies.” One holiday is “unofficial” – Father’s Day  (like Mother’s Day), as notes Wikipedia: “The single most common date … Read More

Remedial Econ: War in Wave 3 Down? Retail Sales, Trantifa

Start time:  03:25 AM Ure is up early because the scent of Money is in the air.  Too early to be certain, so were glued to the “events horizon.” (news flows) Big Money on the short side of the market may arrive shortly because of where we are in long wave economics. “Where’s that?” Retail … Read More

Cause Economics

Two remarkable events are tabled this morning. Our BrainAmp spreadsheet projected Wave 2 Fibonacci high was hit at Tuesday’s close (within a point).  And in the other, we are increasingly concerned that non-banker socioeconomic tools are wresting control of our economic future away from those entrusted to manage it. Pretty serious stuff. Plus, we’ll look … Read More

Inflation Data Rolls – Outback Diet Update

The biggest news of the day in financial circles is the just-dropped CPI numbers.  Since, with the Fed FOMC gaveling-in today, this will be the last official big data read on inflation. The modest improvement in the top line number was mainly due to the energy component dropping.  The Saudi hikes will eat that in … Read More

Hot Mess Monday – Tactical Market

We ain’t just “whistling Dixie” when we say “Hot Mess.”  (Has the song Dixie been banned by the ‘righteous’ yet?) We got us a blue light special on Mess going, yes sir. Buy one and get a free “hot”. Of course, it’s summertime, so what were you expecting?  Climate change? Mess #1 – I-95 In this … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: Ben Dover’s Shop Economics, Tour d’ Works

Money first.  Then a ton of interesting projects that keep us busy.  We’ll do a “photo-stroll” around the shop (as of Tuesday morning) so you can get more of a feel for what Making and Doing are like outside the confines of cubicles and 300 square-foot living spaces.  And why retired is usual just tired. Hosed … Read More

Oversold Bull!

Park the Bull Market Talk. We don’t mean to be critical of the me-too press, but… Yeah, this morning a few hard facts the cheerleader pom-pom media didn’t bother to emphasize while driving the market higher this week. This being the middle of summer sweats around here, we’re keeping our focus on the Charts and … Read More

Soon Don Gone? Trump Kampf Ahead?

History doesn’t precisely rhyme.  But it gets pretty damn interesting when you take in the whole sweep of it. This morning, in the wake of Justice Department Charges Trump in Documents Case, along with the revelation that 12m Americans believe violence is justified to restore Trump to power, it’s time to look at “how we’re in … Read More

FedThink Thursday and Market Waffles

On the surface,  today is starting off as another ho-hum.  But, when we look beneath the surface, there are some Big Important Moving Parts creaking into place. Fed Consumer Spending+ We detest the Fed’s lack of “data candor.”  A familiar example began when St. Greenspan decided to hide the broadest measure of Money Stocks – … Read More