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

I am not one to go about trying to find new (and creative) ways to break the law…We assiduously uphold the law, even when it’s self-serving and occasionally outright freedom-restricting. That said, we see how laws are sometimes made for more than keeping the public peace and order.  And, in the case of States regulating … Read More

The Dow Jones Industrials rose some 208 points Thursday.  This morning, though, we look to give-back all but 3-bucks of that; if not all of it and then some. So, the first thing out of the hopper today (and this is not financial advice) is that we did mention this in Thursdays column…so it isn’t … Read More

If you think there’s a stock market pop in the works – and we’re coming up on the pre-holiday window leading to Turkey (and the Friday after, sometimes called “national call your broker day” – back when there were humans, not mice running the show) rallies are tempting when the news flow turns.  Retail it … Read More