Pick a disaster…plenty to choose from…no crowding, social distance, please! And so begins another Thursday. Besides the Fed data on “jacking up the money supply” – after the close today – there is the small matter of the implosion of the  once middle-class in ‘Merica, as revealed in the Wednesday consumer debt report. In it, … Read More

Toss the fish oil?  Sleep on the ground?  Throw your water in the blender first?  Yes, the Mad Scientist and his beautiful assistant have been at it again.  Reading and pondering where Ponce de Leon hid the Fountain. Which we will get into as soon as we find Eldorado, or its early desktop analog – … Read More

Little real economic news to begin the morning.  Oh, sure:  Italian retail sales and Denmark’s industrial product matter…if you’re Italian or Danish.  It won’t be until an hour before tomorrow’s close that we’ll see the U.S. Consumer Credit (né Debt) will be revealed.  With it, comes reassurance that we’re still spending way more (as a … Read More

Massive relief rally early.  But after that…who knows? As we begin the week, there isn’t much ahead until the Fed’s “Consumer Debt” report.  Wednesday.  Which they call consumer “credit” because they are  creditors.  We’re the simple-sap debtors… To us, it’s a reasonable time to reload for the fall and what could be another round of … Read More

My bad.  I missed Ham Radio Field Day. It was last weekend.  As happens the last weekend in June each year, amateur radio operators (include from our club in town) and my buddy  The Major‘s club is up in the Seattle area; he and some buds headed for the hills and remotest of places.  From … Read More

I couldn’t just sleep-in.  Had something on my mind that we need to watch for in coming weeks That is, if “spider sense” means anything outside of Marvel-space. I hope you’re having a dandy weekend and this will be mainly an expansion and continuation of the thinking that I outlined on the free side (Urban) … Read More

Or, “How to Steal Without Robbing….” Yeah, you’d think you can’t “steal from someone” without  robbing them, right? For mere mortals, the likes of us, that’d be the case.  But in the CRAZY world of Made Up Money (*disguised as “Modern Monetary Theory” which is a misleading label for Marxist Monetary Theory, which is turn … Read More

We have two “stories that matter” in addition to the continually soars, jacked-up-on-cash shit-show previously known as the Stock Market.  Normally, given the serious hit to both employment  and economic activity, stocks would decline to lower levels of equilibrium as risk and reward rebalance. However, with the (not really)  Federal (and with no…) Reserve, save … Read More

Oh no!  George has roughed out another book idea. And subscribers will vote the project up or down.  I hope it will be a harder choice than the choice in the fall election. Before that, a bit of pre-holiday news to go over and the market charts, of course as well.,.. More for Subscribers      |||  … Read More

Incomplete data due to CV-19 in Detroit area. 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 4.7% annual gain in April, up from 4.6% in the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in at 3.4%, remaining the same as last month. The … Read More

We will take care of “real news” first, today.  Down toward the end of this report you’ll find the “book news” and some research notes.  More tomorrow for our  Peoplenomics.com subscribers. Today Plus 2 An abbreviated trading week and before the housing numbers, the Dow futures were down a bit.  Although we did a $60 … Read More

You ever shoot pool, or play golf?  I want you to think back to the wildest of those times.  To either when you rolled the golf-cart over while playing “polo golf” in the rain in Seattle at Jackson Field (Randy, my UPS driver a billion years ago, lost a $20-on that).  Or the time at … Read More

Got up early this (Sunday) morning and a few minutes before sunrise, had a successful “test firing” of the new Harbor Fright Dust Collector: Not terribly noisy – and the old (small) unit will remain installed in a through-wall set up.  It will be plumbed to move the 3D printer odors outdoors.  I may upgrade … Read More