“What, oh pray tell Mr. Ure, are the meds you’re on this morning with such consummate blather?” Not necessary.  Headlines are providing the insights.  You see, we are watching a whole slew of “penny dreadful novellas” play out in real-time. We’ll get to the list, but first – for the Great Unwashed (the undipped sheep) the Wiki … Read More

“There’s more to Life than Money,” goes an old saying.  Yet, perhaps because of the oddness of the times, we don’t pay a heck of a lot of attention to the non-monetary side of life.  It’s like we denominate everything first in dollars, then in meanings like contribution to Life.. It’s a fixation that has … Read More

We need to begin by trying to understand what happened in Monday trading. Mostly nothing. In fact, as Robin Handler over at the Options Signal Service noted: “Here we are at the 4th of April. I didn’t see anything unusual. Surprise the world did not react to Russia bringing back the Gold standard. Let’s see … Read More

We are waking up to what COULD – before the day is out – Turn into a real bellwether trading day. The reason is simple:  With the close of last week’s action, we were AT our 85-Day Moving Average in our Aggregate Index work, but there have been other indicators, as well. I mentioned a … Read More

This was a really busy week, around the old “trailer in the Outback.”  So, before we get into the nibbins of actually making, a quick photo tour of what we were up to this week. For one, we managed to get the leftovers (tin scrap) turned into a reasonable raised bed garden.  Going from this: … Read More

I’m writing another book – a novel this time – and you’ll find the research done for this one very interesting.  You see, it’s a novel about what happens when Anti-Aging medicine really pays off.  How does that friendly government of ours go about rooting out fraud on the one hand while, at the same … Read More

Like an idiot, I failed to play the end of month write down in markets Thursday.  Long story, but the short of it is:  Must be present to win. Which means no running tractors to offload a yard of prime raised bed composted soil if there’s a trade on.  Unwatched money tends to wander off.  … Read More

Nice and businesslike this morning:  Starting with the odds-on World War III this weekend. War Risk Reduced? That might be a possibility if the happy-talk on point is right.  But, as you will read, we don’t think the “reportage” on this has been particularly objective. So, let’s roll with some of the good coverage and then … Read More

There is a business model battle going on in plain sight that will largely determine our computing future.  It’s one that I touched on in my book Broken Web: The Coming Collapse of the Internet in 2012. Even now, the battle is far from over.  However, enough companies and institutions – not to mention regular … Read More

Up more than 19 percent year-on-year, says the new S&P/Case-Shiller housing report: 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 19.2% annual gain in January, up from 18.9% in the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in at 17.5%, up from 17.1% … Read More

Since I’m in semi-retired mode – with a million projects going on here, some of which needs to be done before nukes fly – this will be a very direct summary of events to kick off your day. War Just Ahead Covering up the global financial systems implosion is not going very well. A number … Read More

With Oscar insanity now past, we can get back to the real job of wrecking America. I don’t say this lightly.  But, in our unflinching view, the Oscars have become a Woke-Racist marketing platform.  Mainly, it has become more about race and gender anymore’ not the craft of acting.  It has been years since anyone … Read More

[Reader Note:  My life-long “brother by a different mother” of 70 years – the Major – finally made it home from Mexico – where his wife suffered a burst appendix almost a week ago.  They got in around 10:45 PM last night. “Thanks my Bro’ for your support and the prayers of so many of your readers … Read More