CPI: Prices Flat Just out: “The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) was unchanged in September on a seasonally adjusted basis after rising 0.1 percent in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 1.7 percent before seasonal adjustment. Increases in the … Read More

Today we pencil out how much money might be made in the stock market decline of 1929.  Such a decline would begin tomorrow or as late as next Monday and would  continue to almost Christmas, as some of our models suggest, there is still a lot of “processor time” to be thinking about other topics … Read More

House democrats are “Taking America Argentina.”  A not-too-obscure (we hope) reference to the roll of Death Squads in places long ago and far away like Argentina.  As Wikipedia explains them: “A death squad is an armed group that conducts extrajudicial killings or forced disappearances of persons for the purposes such as political repression, assassinations, torture, genocide, … Read More

Reader Note:  This is being posted in sections this morning because of the cold-front, T-cells, and rain moving through the area this morning.  The finished product should be up around 8 AM Central, as always.  If you’re reading earlier than that, here’s your chance to see if you can read faster than I can type! … Read More

No doubt, one of my favorite readers well scream at me about my twisted-up understanding of “digital assets” but for those paying attention, the discussion is worth having. There are, in Ure’s judgment, two distinct classes of “digital assets.”  The kind that are “offline” and the kind that require “online” to work. I’ve studied the … Read More

We can’t stare at markets all damn day, every day. So, things like  thinking through how to build a working “time machine” provide a useful distraction.  A “wait” machine for the brain?  LOL. Dual purpose, too:  Keeps the brain working which, in turn, makes what’s ahead for markets “come in more clearly..:“ Some people, like … Read More

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