Well, here we go again:  The daily attacks on Donald Trump, the miserable coverage by pseudo-journos, and again, none of it will make you any richer, but it sure feeds the ad machines that keeps network news co-opted since everything has a price. Easy to manipulate if you know how to do it.  Just get some … Read More

“When Serial Innovation Fails” is our big ‘in-depth’ piece for Peoplenomics.com subscribers.  As outlined in this morning’s restructuring note, this report will be out on Wednesday so that I get more “project time” weekends.  We’re focused on quality now – and innovation, of course. We take two news stories are very much in-keeping with our … Read More

The time had to come sooner or later.  We’re revising our publishing plans as our interests have evolved over time. First:  I am selling off the www.ruralpioneer.com website.  I will also sign over the Trademark with it.  It goes without saying that a younger person should take over the task. Running a 29 acre tree … Read More

Breakthrough time:  One of the most startling things to emerge from our recent explorations to evolve a “mechanical trading system” has been more than just the discovery of a semi-regular heartbeat to the market. What we’ve stumbled into is something I call “Probability Quadrature.” It has the potential to rewrite our understanding of “event measurement.”  … Read More

I’ve been re-reading a fascinating book on the how math really can ‘shave the odds’ in a gambler’s favor.  The Hill and Wang book “Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street.” What makes the book worth reading is it a) shows the relationship between technology, … Read More

One day this week, I’ll be sending one of my sons-in-law our trusty old Tecsun PL-660  shortwave receiver.  We’ve had it a good long while and its main use around here has been listening to CoastToCoast AM with George Noory out of WOAI in San Antonio late nights. This particular SOL has done more actual prepping than … Read More

A few Monday AM thoughts on something that comes up all the time over cocktails:  People have bigger dreams than they have budgets. Since this is (nominally) an economics website, I sometimes feel compelled to hold up the mirror to society and ask the genuinely brave to have a look. Simple questions only: 1.  Have … Read More

This is one of those stories I wanted to sit on for a while because, even now, the weirdness of it is rather remarkable.  It’s another one of those remarkable “adventures in The Realms” where dreams reveal themselves to be an alternate reality, not just a place to hang out when we sleep.  Sometimes they … Read More

For those not following the recent work here for subscribers, the short version  is that we have been hard at work on building a spreadsheet “Golem” in order to better advise our trades. While we are not releasing our underlying spreadsheet, we have revealed more than enough information so that someone modestly skilled in the … Read More

Years back in my Major Market News Director’ing days, I saw lots of market research about what people wanted to know about when the news came on. Some of the thought-leaders at the time included the Associated Press and (Frank N.) Magid and Associates -both of which are still around today. Back-when, we learned that … Read More

When the idea of X.10 home automation came out, I was lukewarm to the idea of using computer technology to make living “lazy” – as in “turn the lights on for me” lazy. When I went through the X.10 commands list, there were obviously some things that would be nice to have around the ranch. … Read More

We think Google should kill all Android phones in Europe and tell the EU to piss off.  Details follow… If you are a shareholder in Google, how does it feel to have the Hoodlums of Brussel’s (the “sprouts” of socialism) declare themselves to be your new more than equal partners? That’s what most commentary on the … Read More

The American Left has a serious problem:  They are running out of “shock talk” to spew. Allow me to show you a few facts – and then how the Left (and liberal types) are trying to bury their terrifying shortage of shocking terms. First a couple of identical news searches to make the point: On Bing’s … Read More