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

Had a case of the “Earthquake Tireds” today. I’ve written about this in the past…and said I’d mention it next time it happens. Here one of those “self-learning” things that happens if you live long enough.  You start to notice odd things that happen, usually in the same order, time after time. Like Earthquakes. The … Read More

Our Big Story this morning is probably one that feels a lot like we, as a Nation, are being set-up for a January Slam. “The Slam” (JanSlam) near as I can label it, will have many components all smashing on America at the same time. The first we can see by this morning’s poll on  … Read More

One of our guiding principles is that “Everything’s a Business Model.” So looking ahead to next year, we have a couple of interesting observations about how this “new business” is doing. My consigliere made an interesting observation while visiting.  “Just like ESP and paranormal research like remote viewing peaked a number of years back, watch … Read More

Here we go, once again, wondering about possible market action in the short-term. With the early futures down two hunsky’s, I put in a pseudo-number into our Aggregate Index to estimate what might evolve in today’s action: See that roughly sketched-in trend channel?  You got that?  See how we MIGHT today, or tomorrow come down with … Read More