The mind of the public is not on eartth-shaking economic news.  Evidenced by the top six searches on Google in the past day have been football-related. So being out of touch, and a bit greedier, we’ll begin with the  NY Fed Empire State Manufacturing outlook: “The headline general business conditions index held steady at 3.5. … Read More

First thing:  This is not medical advise… But, since it’s the time of year when we spend more time than normal around computers,  as someone who’s had eight eye operations over the past 35-years, I’ve learned more than I ever dreamed of about my eyes. Avoiding Eye Problems A regular visit with an eyecare professional … Read More

As humans begin to define their relationship with AI, is privacy already lost?  It’s a profound question we all need to answer at some level.   The Machines are here.  Problem is even those “secret questions” that secure “your identity” may just be means to profit from hacking what’s between your ears. Today, a step-wise discussion … Read More

BoJo Rocks It, Dems Losing It (Happy Triska) Boris Johnson, who ran on the Conservative ticket, promising to get the UK BREXIT from the Europrick’s Kingdom done, slammed victory in UK voting Thursday. In a move not to be missed by democrats pursuing their Digital Uprising/ Online Coup against Donald Trump, says over here “Boris … Read More

The next couple of months should go in economics history books.  Because, near as we can figure it, the US Fed (which didn’t change rates Wednesday, and barely even changed their press release) does  not have an infinite capacity to Make Up Money. Although the official Fed Balance Sheet won’t be out until after the … Read More

A new kind of Grand Unified Theory appears in our meta data work. Our work here at Old Man Labs is loosely based on the idea that there is an acoustical “trap door” to space-time.  In a review of extensive anomaly reports, cross-tabbed to religious traditions, we seem to have uncovered possible “pay dirt.” Today, … Read More

Hats off to NM Mike for the tip on this:  We just downloaded the official report of the IG from the DoJ Website here and and there is, indeed, a telling misspelling of the former FBI Director’s name. There are 149 instances of it being spelled “Corney” instead of “Comey.” See how much the font looks … Read More

The left-leaning press and crooked politicians (left and right) are scared as hell about what’s going to come out if the digging into Ukraine and the “international manipulators” gets too much further.  Game-on for the Durham grand jury, as we see it. What you can read, studying the headlines (as one would scan a  libretto for … Read More

Sanna Marin – remember the name – she is being sworn in this week as the new prime minister of Finland.  Normally a “who cares?” except for one thing:  Age 34. This triggers a whole lot of optimism around here, but for reasons that are non-apparent, though she did make the  NY Times for her … Read More

An economic Depression is on the way.  We don’t like to think about it, because it’s much easier to listen of the “ siren song” of politicians.  It’s our great human “power of denial” that just won’t let us think anything bad can ever happen to us. Prepping, a movement this site helped “found” when … Read More

You know what a Palindrome is, right? It’s a number, word, or phrase that is spelled the same when reversed. A number example would be 838. A few word examples would be Abba, racecar, and tat. A phrase example is “no x in Nixon.” Now that we’re “pal ‘n” here the overnight from Ure fave  … Read More

Addicted to Accounting is the focus of this Chapter. Conventions, depreciation, and the time-value of money may be driving toward unsustainable and anti-environmental outcomes.   A journal entry for delusion?  Or a T-account for Depletion? Because as we look at what much of the world is doing wrong (high non-renewable resource burn rates for one), accounting’s … Read More

Yeah.  Trade War.  Supposed to be the “end of the world” and would collapse consumerism as we knew it.  But, that’s  not what the data says. Let’s start, though, with this morning’s federal jobs report. “Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 266,000 in November, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 3.5 percent, the … Read More