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At times like this – and the extremely dangerous period from next week through June – managing risk will be of paramount importance. The U.S. economy looks good on paper. But as many have reported recently, it’s actually too good when labor participation doesn’t seem to add up. Toss in holding Social Security and Medicare … Read More
Got up early today for some server work & we’ve managed to shave a little time off server load speeds (memcached on server now). So, if things seem quicker, then yeah, likely are. Markets: “D” or a (1)? It always comes down to this in investing: The market goes to where you think it should … Read More
Wow. Never had this happen before. The internet ate my report. Wrote a dynamite column (aren’t they all?) and WTF? All disappeared. 2 hours of work down the crapper. Controversial stuff this time – odd how that stuff goes bye-bye. Maybe this is just my computer keeping me out of jail, or worse, though… hmm.. … Read More
Although we are able to snipe occasional lunch money in this pig of a stock market, the amount of real Truth out there is getting harder to find. Data! Market futures slipped a bit on this. Meanwhile: Do I believe Labor Department data “Series Id: LNS12000000”? Because if you did believe it, you’d be agreeing … Read More
On the surface, this promises to be a fairly quiet week, data-wise. The news flow is less than inspiring, because the “shoot down” of the Chinese weather or surveillance balloon has turned everyone in Washington into even bigger Buffoons than before. Sounds impossible, we’ll admit. Tomorrow we’ll get a taste of international goods pricing, but remembering … Read More
Ok, sitting down after a day of working on post-storm chores. As you will remember, the ice storm took us almost offline, except that now I understand why a tablet and Starlink are so crucial to people in Ukraine. They work great. Able to look over comments and approve things along with the odd post even … Read More
I didn’t get into this on the Subscriber side this morning (Peoplenomics.com) but the Biden Administration’s inability to deal with something as simple as a high altitude Chinese spy balloon verges on criminal. In fairness, my consigliere points out it was a decision presented to the Biden crew by the military/CIA. The White House went along. “Don’t … Read More
Officially most of the outages should be back up today, but not us…at least so far: The good news is the solar is really cranking and sun is in the forecast. Rany lines out and started cutting wood – tons of it to clean up. Food is good, doing the odd post of Kindle is … Read More
We have sun on our solar panels today. The problem we have is the power company is not expected to get the power on until this weekend. Job numbers came in good and maybe too much so. Given the weak ADP report. No farm month over month was down .5 million which doesn’t make sense … Read More
A post Thursday Eve as power may not be back until into weekend we’re told. Made it into town for the post office and diesel. Never can have too much on hand. Main agenda was to talk to line crews. As of 11am yest.we had 11-thousand without power. People no nice will depend on powrr…might … Read More
Power still down. No sun for solar. Fave auto shop out of deep cycle batteries. Power co. Has no due date on power. Red wine and mountain house for dinner looks like. Elaine saidhell yeah to generator. LOl. More when solar kicks in. This is what emo would be like so great exercise. More eventually … Read More
No sign of our power crew hour 12 of outage in the ice storm. Elaine has been reading and kitchen puttering. Mountain House and Soul net for lunch. Will get dIesel tomorrow. But here is the point… If the power doesn’t come up tonight then the Thu! Column may be de ok ayed. Gone camping … Read More
Just so I could say it was done… We don’t have a crew assigned to our outage yet. Woods alive with crashing of limbs. Maybe we will score a disaster declaration being a tree farm and all. Elaine is reading on her Kindle..me onmine. Nice break from writing but v slow posting via small screen. … Read More