Housing Up–Rate Hike Pressure?
New York, November 24, 2015 – S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices.
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Coping: A Large Helping of Woo-Woo
But I have also done enough research into the future, means of predicting, and how predictions come to pass, that I also don’t scoff at people’s ability to plug in to bits about the future, either. There is something to it – I’d stake my life on it. Once you’ve experienced knowledge at a distance whether he measuring stick is space or time, it changes your outlook on life.
Coping: Saved by the To-Do List
I call it my LOSTD (list of sh*t to do) and it gets updated every morning after this morning column is done. I also do a “master list” of things I want to fall into place this week. One of these is get the airplane finished (a designated engineering representative has the ball on that while we ask for a minor/trivial variance from an airworthiness directive (AD) which is just another way to turn an annual airplane inspection into a money-sucking pit. The payoff is a safe airplane. The week’s master project list includes the 6-month, 50,000 chew tooth inspection.
Coping: With Davos, Our Forgotten Humanity
Very rarely will I have something to say on the UrbanSurvival side of things (free) that has been said on the Peoplenomics side ($40/year). But some observations made in Wednesday’s column are important enough, I think, to be posted here on the free side. Better late than never, I suppose. How long have I been telling you, both here and on the UrbanSurvival website, that people lack confidence in the future, don’t trust robots, government, surveillance, or what we’re doing to the environment and each other? Yet it was not until this week as the World Economic Forum rolls in Davos that someone, Nobel Prize winning economic Robert Shiller, told CNBC that people are afraid of the future and that’s why bond prices are not being bid up.
Coping: With Gold, Gardening and Rainy Days
Maybe you haven’t been watching closely, but read Ure’s lips: Food (and its sidekick water) are the ONLY issue that we need to be worrying about in the intermediate term. Oh, sure, you can debate endlessly the pros and cons of Hillary versus Cruz, but that would be yesterday’s problem. The “art of the deal” around here is being ahead of, not behind, the curve. So I pass along this from Oilman2… Europe was inundated with flooding 18 months back – poor crop yield.
Repricing Peace – Prep Ahead for Drought?
The early futures today are down. But in Europe, it’s a different tale. There, markets are up – not ginormously – but up, nevertheless. Why down on the futures, including gold and silver, then? Wasn’t our state-extreme variance trading model showing a rally is the more likely move ahead? Could be “mechanical short-covering.” See, when there is … Read More
CPI – Where it Leads – and the Junior Forest Fire Badge
I suppose we can begin at the beginning – which is the CPI figures just out from Labor. The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased … Read More
DDT: Data-Dense Tuesday, Barking Mad: Valentine’s and Aging
Since hitting the 77 mark this month, I have cut myself considerable slack. Things like “pressure” to keep UrbanSurvival going, publish still more books, and doing more research. I mean, eventually time runs out and what we leave with is all between-our ears, anyway. Still, mornings like this? Good to sit in the recliner over at the … Read More
Job Cuts,. The Lindbergh Replay Lands, Digital Arrogance
Full agenda today so here’s the snapshot. And Now Here’s Your Host: Wild George Pretend today I’m a “shock jock” – And you just tuned in to the Wild George Sez show. One of the few remaining English-language, non-thumping programs left on AM radio… He reads the headlines: “Challenger Job Cuts report is just out. But … Read More
Circle the 18th – Markets in Sort Mode – Apology to Wiccans
There is increasing activity in China and the Western (rabid) social media about war – in one form, or another – around February 17th. This isn’t just on social – it’s also showing up in Google Search trend analysis. On the left, you’ll see mid December, a spike in mid January. But we are most concerned … Read More
One Down, Two Up, Then… Storm Prep C/L
$100 Silver nearly landed overnight – stopped 60-cents shy on the futures. But that doesn’t end the hard assets war. In fact, $5,000 gold and $100 silver seem almost a “lock” at this point. But, we don’t offer this as “advice.” It’s in the news category. Since We’re on Financials… Early market futures were down. … Read More
Global Asset War, US NATO Exit Plan, 85 DMA Bounce?
The two most useful sources on all the “news” sites today might be our own Reader Ray and a weekend video by The Asian Guy on YouTube. We’ll toss in our consigliere, too, because his phone call Monday is a dandy starting point. Ring-a-Ding on NATO My consigliere called in Sunday. “Greenland is about getting out of … Read More
When to War, Market Ponder, 3-Day Weekend
How are your “war preps?” This is not something people in the CONUS need to worry about – yet. Except – and this is our first thinking bit of the morning – there is the Calendar. My consigliere and I have spent uncountable (therefore, non-billable) time calculating the answer to the simple question: “When is the absolute … Read More