Not by a lot, though, as we shall see:  First, though, the good news. 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 3.8% annual gain in December, up from 3.5% in the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in at 2.4%, up … Read More

With the stock market dropping more than 1,000 points (by the Dow) Monday, it’s hard to imagine how things could get worse. Stick around… The problem is in the data – and the data is saying much bad juju is still ahead. Today, we have cases at 80,289 and deaths at 2,704. Let’s plug these … Read More

Anagnorisis:  The Moment of Recognition.  Oh, yeah…it starts today. We’ve been telling you for several weeks to brace yourself.  You’ve had plenty of time to gently move money and self to the sidelines, to buy isolation goods, stock the freezer, and brace for the worst.   Just in Case, of course. Right out of the … Read More

Dead Battery: Happened to me this week:  Had to pull out one of our Home Emergency Plans to keep having a smooth week. Six Basic Home Emergency Plans These are going to happen to everyone, if you live long enough. Dead Battery:  Car Won’t start and you have to be somewhere. Electricity Goes Out (Daytime): … Read More

The second chapter of my next informational project “Hacking Old Aging” rolls out today. First, though, it’s useful to read the TV plotline from the series  “Limitless” where a hypothetical drug, NZT-48, gives the hero nothing short of Super Powers.This assumes we all survive COVID19 – so we’ll jump into that today, as well.Fictional, this … Read More

What do  China and  Burger King have in common?  They’re both selling Whoppers. A look at the circular  firing squad during the dem-bate this week ought to give you a clue how “dumb we is.”  But this latest change in Chinese COVID-19 case reporting smacks of old-line ChiCom propaganda. Let’s pull up yesterday’s numbers and compare … Read More

With apologies to Gary Zukav, world-class physicist and author of “Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics.”  I can’t resist turning a good phrase. Chinese should be barred from Statistics. But, as dictatorial States will, they have no problem making up a False Reality and shoving it down people’s throats. Vitriol?  No … Read More

Another “lap around Life” hits this week as 71-rolls by.  Here’s the thing, though:  I feel every bit as good now as I did at 50- and maybe even better. Why?  How?  Well, as near as can be figured, it’s because someone has been making a serious long-term effort for more than 20-years to “stick … Read More

We expect the market to open seriously down this morning for several reasons, not the least of which is the seriousness of COVID-19 is dawning on people other than us. As of writing time, Dow futures were down 178 points on the Dow,  but we will see how the Fed plays the repo and reverse-repo … Read More

Holiday Schedule:  No US market activity today due to President’s Day.  As a result, there’s little in the way of insightful comment on the financial side, other than our awe-struck sense of wonder at idiots in Finance who can’t understand medicine. First, though, let’s talk about the… Re-Screwing of Bernie The Hildebeast is back.  In … Read More

Breaking:  A Wuhan Update Before we jump into the lighter stuff, two quick notes. First the daily numbers: Cases:  69,266   Deaths: 1,670 Cases are up almost 86% from a week ago; deaths are up 105.6% – more than doubling. Second is a follow-up to the research paper we posted Saturday, (previous post) showing an … Read More

You are being CC’ed on a note to my son G-II today to protect his “family jewels” as more research – of the scariest sort to males charged with continuing the family breeding lines- comes from China virus studies coming out:  Like this one: Abstract In December 2019 and January 2020, novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – … Read More

Advances in data summarization and presentation has outstripped the average human’s ability to live  effectively with “Flat-Land News.” That is, to admit that most of what passes for “news” is wholly incomplete, lacking of context and riddle with fake “forced-choice” presentation.  Because it falsely distills complex events into bi-polar choicing that is most often agenda-driven. … Read More