Breaking Data – just out from Labor… The unemployment rate declined to 3.5 percent in September, and total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 136,000, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment in health care and in professional and business services continued to trend up. This Our two-bit analysis:  This is a LOT stronger … Read More

The Jobs Report in a second.  This is more important, I think…and we will have more detailed view this weekend for our  Peoplenomics.com subscribers.  Question is “When does a crash begin?” Our Aggregate Market view looked like this at 6:15 AM Central today: If this outcome is going to happen, our research projects the washout … Read More

Normally, we wouldn’t share this with anyone but our  Peoplenomics subscribers.  However, this is an important update to our ChartPack this morning and it suggests where a bounce may occur Our chart is based on two sets of data:  Historical 1929 Dow Jones Industrials from the period.  That’s the blue trace.  And our own Aggregate … Read More

We pick up where my book Dimensions Next Door left off.  Sure, it sounds like raving of a nut-case, no question about it. But since subscribers get to put themselves on my “science advisors board” maybe not completely irrational, after all. Over time, we have a modest body of evidence that suggests manipulation of space-time … Read More

One of our long-time readers passed along a fascinating news release Tuesday.  Since this had turned into something of a Woo-Woo Wednesday (markets panic next week and we’re talking about time machine ideas on the subscriber side), how ab out one of the finest mysteries in American history to sink your teeth into over coffee … Read More

News as a Disorder? Not in the DSM-5, yet.  So, grab $112-bucks and buy your own copy of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition: DSM-5 while you can. Bound to be a collectable. While Abram Beneson et al  did such a masterful job in Control of Communicable Diseases in Man (14th … Read More

I’ve been spending too damn much time in my chair.  Because we are in the “window” where a possible Replay of 1929 could turn frighteningly real.  I’d suggest you reread a short history of the Salem Witch Trials not so much because the dems might accuse 200 people, also, at present run rates.  But, because … Read More

Long ago, while living on my sailboat, I came to the conclusion that I really hated going to the barber shop.  I was working ashore of course, and had to wear a suit and tie every day for that’s what people in management did. Out of my (then) L.A. office, I got to bitching about … Read More

Equational madness:  At the limits of business models.  We know that there is a logical upper bound for any product.  One (OK, several) for every person on the planet.  And we know there is a lower bound, too. Zero. The problem is what the planet needs is an resource optimized model.  While Wall Street (and … Read More

Carrying, as I do, one of the genes associated with Alzheimer’s disease, there are many, many things done around here to keep that risk “managed” – as much as one can. That includes the usual:  Working on “mental projects” a  lot.  Reading voraciously, though that’s as much for pleasure as anything.  Benchmarking reaction times,  regular … Read More

First thing done around here, most mornings, is to look through reader comments,  This morning, hats off to reader Ray, who has been so kind as to write this morning’s column for me, whether he knew it at the time, or not.  Because it really IS all one needs to know procedurally about the political … Read More

The entertaining insanity in Washington promises to be in full-farce (sic) today as the democrat “bum’s rush” toward impeachment gears up. After a thoughtful read of the entire phone transcript document Wednesday, I was hardly shocked to see how the crooked media (most of it, these days) didn’t focus on the  main context of what … Read More

What “Report from Iron Mountain” missed.  “Report from Iron Mountain on the Accessibility and Desirability of Peace” was long-rumored to have been a parody of “think-tank” style contingency planning prevalent during the Cold War and during Vietnam, as well. Alhough controversial at the time, the core idea of the book was that using capitalism, humans … Read More