Time for us to check you into Reality Rehab. The Trump Bump wasn’t supposed to happen.  It was the Clinton Bump – except that voters didn’t vote the Manipulation Ticket and actually voted the Anything Else ticket.  Still, we’re not getting what we voted for. The “Trump Tax Cut” – truth be known (though why … Read More

(Thank our Peoplenomics.com subscribers who have made this kind of research possible – or, better yet, become one yourself!) As we have been telling our subscribers for a few weeks now, there is ONLY ONE CHART THAT MATTERS RIGHT NOW: This is not investment advice – it’s just a lineup of where things are this … Read More

As I was sitting quietly contemplating some of the major problems of physics (“Why do composite resistors have much Johnson-Nyquist noise figures than think-metal film varieties?”) it struck me that a useful column for the end of a weekend would be to round up a few things that haven’t found their way into our regular … Read More

This morning we scrap our usual format (headlines, charts, in depth report) to lay everything out in as much context as possible. This is not alarmist – at least in the usual sense:  We are not saying the coming week will be a disaster.  But, the odds bump up from the non-zero region far enough … Read More

OK, the turkey is done, in the fridge, and now you have a nice weekend to begin frittering-away time until you can put on the yoke of capitalist oppression again Monday… Rather than waste time – the one truly limited supply item in Life – might we offer a sampling of really useful prepping ideas … Read More

This is National Shopping Disease Day which follows turkeys around, near as we can figure. It’s the day when dumb people shop. I like to think things through “logically, Captain.”  And spending money today – while gratifying for some – is about the dumbest display of herd mentality we’ve seen second to Bitcoin which dipped … Read More

Well, here we go – a probable record cold Thanksgiving Day ahead, particularly in the Northeast: This will also likely be a record setting weekend not just for travel, but for online sales as Black Friday comes tomorrow. Wait!  What About Economics? Yes,. of course that is still our “stock-in-trade.”  With the markets closed for … Read More

First up this morning, the “Only Chart That Matters” – as we roll into a potential next leg down for markets next week. Then, A number of subscribers have asked if there was a possibility of getting a more detailed market forecasting tool than the free spreadsheet (brainamp.xls) that is available to subscribers from the … Read More

By request from last Thanksgiving – only this time in advance so you can have everything on hand this year… Back in 2013. we share the best turkey leftovers recipe  we’ve ever found.  Our Ode to 13 Coins’ SST Sandwich column from 2013.  I don’t remember if Gale, the daytime bartender at the ‘Coin’s place … Read More

Mini-Crash Day?  Futures down 350 at clicktime.  Naw…just a warm-up. We are not quite at the “Once again, I told you so…” stage, but damn, we are getting close. The price of Bitcoin was being quoted this morning as around $4,400 and this is very much in keeping with the longer-term views we have presented … Read More

Sorry to begin the week with such a sobering topic, but the headline flows are driving us to it… You see, the world is screwing-along toward 8-billion people, and there just aren’t enough resources deployed to make that number sustainable for any historical length of time.  We are set to “eat planet.” What’s more, with … Read More

The histrionics of ‘weather reporters’ – leaning into non-extent winds and such – are not the “thinking point” today’s note related to “climate change.”  Instead, there are a lot of very simple observations and questions regular people (e.g. those without advanced degrees or government grants to come to ‘approved’ conclusions) can make and ACT on. … Read More

Big smoke – not so much fire.  And we’ll pass on where some of that smoke has been blown (ahem!)… We return to a familiar topic this morning with some fresh data to ponder:  What is “growth” and how is both the media and the political sphere spinning things? After headlines, of course, and our … Read More