Another Market Inflection Point? Several readers have asked about where the market could be headed. The simple answer is? “It’s almost anywhere…” You need to survey the currents and counters swirling about: This morning Jerome Powell (jefe d’ Fed ) speaks. Markets generally “play nicey-nice” while official-speak is being dispensed. The other Fed reveals this … Read More
A Key Insight Into Trump I finally get it! I understand Donald Trump. But don’t get your hopes up. It’s probably too late to matter. My insight comes from 70+ years of personal experience. Constantly working on myself to improve. It’s because of this, all the pieces finally “clicked into place” today as reports of Trump’s … Read More
Around the ranch Sunday: Fall weather arrives. And that’s when prepping and ham radio projects come into view!
Want to live 30% longer? Stick around. There is a trick hidden in plain sight which I haven’t see discussed anywhere else. With markets in their pre-election confusion now – likely to last until inauguration – we focus on physical optimizing one’s wetware platform today. Gone are the days of “optimizing for weight” for us. … Read More
Sorry for the long headline, but this is may turn into something of a long rap before we get to the latest job figures just out. Let’s see how well the “Prince of Shorter Columns” can do on his verbal diet today, shall we? Trump Has Covid About here, I need to remind all my … Read More
Retracements are one of the most interesting features of stock market performance. You will see a big decline (like from Sept. 2) when people come to their senses. Then you get often-times manic, insane rallies – like the one we have been in this week. It’s the stuff of Elliott Wave 2 bounces – sometimes. … Read More
Think of them as eWMDs as we fit them into the overall evolution of WMDs over historical periods. Which matters because in ways, there’s much on the internet today that fulfills the functionality of a conventional WMD. As we will discuss. A couple of economic notes on data and that mess of whatever was pawned … Read More
Just an advisory that we found a very interesting document that had been published about 10-days ago that had very little (liberal, left-biased) media attention. Yet it is – in our modest view – the kind of thing that should be front and center in Chis Wallace’s questioning tonight of the (polling) front-runner Joe Biden. … Read More
Monthly Case-Shiller/S&P/CoreLogic data is served: NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 – S&P Dow Jones Indices 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 July 2020 show that home prices continue to increase at a modest rate across the U.S. YEAR-OVER-YEAR The … Read More
As happens once a month, a two-part report today: The S&P Housing report will be posted about 8:15 Central time. We are also working on shorter reports. Not that I don’t love to write, mind you. But the reports on the Peoplenomics.com subscriber site are chewing up processor time. Tomorrow we have a piece on … Read More
Looks – based on early futures – like the market is heading skyward with the Dow pointing to a +350-point pop at the open. Unfortunately, there are too many moving pieces for the rally to be called sustainable on a number of fronts. We can wade through them one-at-a-time and I think you’ll see what … Read More
For the past quarter – that is from June 21 to this week – “woo-woo” had taken the summer off. Not sure why, but sometimes its like that in Life. Woo-woo is there for a while – and then poof! It’s back. We know there has been a “seasonal shift” in woo-woo because we’re back … Read More
SATR simply means: “Sunday Around the Ranch” where we cover a hugely and bigly of stuff going on in our lives. I have almost a dozen items on the list this morning including the art of buying things, LookingOutsidethOftheBox has before and after pix of his “cardboard bar” which is nearing completion. Plus the gobs … Read More