While the Census Bureau can’t seem to nail down their housing data release dates any closer than TBD lately, thankfully Case-Shiller/S&P/CoreLogic is more dependable.  Private enterprise, you say? Here’s their latest: ANNUAL GAINS FALL TO 4.7% TO END 2018 ACCORDING TO S&P CORELOGIC CASE-SHILLER INDEX YEAR-OVER-YEAR The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA … Read More

Dow futures were down 85, or so, earlier this morning.  And because this is the last Tuesday of the month, we will be posting this morning’s diatribe in two parts, with the second coming at 8:15 Central when we’ll put up the detail on the Case-Shiller housing report. Breaking Data Just out is a delayed … Read More

Although people use the term pejoratively, the word Paranoid is not a bad thing.  If it’s fed with actual life-experiences, it’s a great example of how the human species learned to avoid injury (and death) in our formative millennia. I mean, you stick your hand into a bee hive – resulting in a massive bee-stinging … Read More

Discrete Chargers and Inverters In today’s chapter, we explore  some of the key “discrete” components of an alternative energy system.  They’re “discrete” in that they are somewhat “system agnostic” and don’t look at a data bus for other manufacturer “family” products in order to operate. To make this as painless and possible, we’ve broken this … Read More

We don’t talk about the role of fishing much in terms of prepping and it’s an oversight we are about to set right with some personal history. As I’ve told you many times, pappy was a Seattle firefighter (captain and acting chief in the 5th battalion now and again) so his days on, and off, … Read More

Although the market today looks to open up more than 100 Dow points, we have to wonder  – with such a data intensive week to come – whether there is any point to being long over the weekend.  For if we are in a massive “buy the rumors” cycle, perhaps the other view should be … Read More

Reader Note:  We will be direct and to our points this morning due to lightning storms rolling through our part of East Texas this morning. Perpetual Rally?  No, or course not.  But, in our Aggregate Index work, we were anticipating a high of 23,723.38 and at the close Wednesday it stood at 23,747.95 about 24.6 … Read More

“You are Where You Think.”Yes, that’s right.  There’s more to Life than making money so today we stretch-out a bit and do extreme home make-overs.More than even what you eat, I believe people’s environment determines their productivity and, in the special case of home, you are very-much influenced by the vibe of the dwelling you … Read More

I am just back from a 5-day adventure experienced in 5-hours of dreaming.  That’s in my “second life” for I’m a oneironaut. A “oneironaut” is a person who explores other worlds in dreams. Sure, most of us go to sleep at night and will occasionally remember a snippet of a dream once back in the … Read More

Reader Note:  Tomorrow morning’s report (Wednesday’s are a bit like Anything Can Happen days here) is a long one – about 5,000 words in length and it’s a bit of woo-woo from my “other life” you may find interesting.  Just saying, plan a second cup tomorrow…or blow it off and come by Thursday for our … Read More

While the U.S. continues playing victim to “fake news” and putting up with the digital online revolutionaries and digital uprisings (as in the Smollett case), we are pleased to report that the UK Guardian is providing great coverage of what we’ve labeled Digital Mob Rule (DMR). Their story, “Facebook labelled ‘digital gangsters’ by report on fake … Read More

Odds of future Fed Hikes may be diminishing thanks to computer models.  For those who don’t track such things, there is an incredibly interesting paper our from the Federal Reserve in its Finance and Economics Discussion Series (FEDS). In  addition, a long discussion on Mexico which we’ve been writing about for a couple of decades … Read More

Sure, it’s fair to ask “Since when is a WeedEater (or, more properly a  )”Weed Eater W25SBK, 16 in. 25cc 2-Cycle Gas Straight Shaft String Trimmer” that Amazon had on sale for $89.95 this week, considered a “prepping item? Ah, my little gosling, you aren’t into looking at the Big – Long-Term – prepping picture, are you?  … Read More