There’s a story (and song done most notably by Harry Belafonte) about John Henry.  It’s where our discussion of 3D printing this morning springs from… Song dates back to the 1870’s and the building of a mile-long tunnel for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.  Big Bend tunnel, also called the Great Bend Tunnel. John Henry, says … Read More

Futures up 322 on the Dow?  Of course the market’s running up today!  Ah, the perversion of economics spun along beautifully along with Hoover II’s SSFM (seriously steamy freaking mess) on 60-Minutia (sic). But in the end, who cares?  OK, Melania, then… Forget the DVD taunts (where is the extortion line crossed?), the blah, blah, … Read More

Saturday – Peoplenomics done.  Good week in the market.  Time to make something. My eye has come to rest on the Hangerworld Premium Cedar Wood Shoe Shine Care Box Kit with Foot Rest while cruising shoe polish boxes on Amazon. Fine unit.  But, at $29.95, I wondered “What could I make in under an hour from scrap … Read More

Mainly charts as we explained in the special Friday report. A few comments,,,but mainly more “What next?” Lots of coffee, though…then 15 charts on what we think is ahead… More for Subscribers       ||| SUBSCRIBE NOW!       |||   Subscriber Help Center

Did I make money on the market break yesterday which we’ve been yammering about for more than a month?  Yes.  3.6% for the  day, thanks for asking. OK, gimme the name of even ONE other website that was telling you – free – from mid-February that we should have a steep decline March 22 – … Read More

In the wake of the Las Vegas shooting last year I wrote a mighty long piece in which I not only chronicled the adventures of a hypothetical Deep State operation that I dubbed Directorate 153, but I also first mentioned the criticality of March 22. The adventure – which I have clipped and posted from the original … Read More

Well, here we is (sic) – March 22 – and this is ideally when in our strange view of reality, US Market MIGHT take to the high-board in a very 1929-like way. I predicted this last month based on our work on the Peoplenomics side of the house, Dow futures were down more than 200 points earlier.  We … Read More

One of my daughters, I have to say, got high marks from dad this week when we talked about how she and her hubby were doing in their new apartment. They had been in a great shared house deal, but that fell apart due to a serious foundation water leak.  Exit the great finished basement and … Read More

A word of caution:  Avoid the temptation to blast co-humans with  the catchier tracks linked in this morning’s report.A bit longish, sure – especially if you listen to all the music links.  This is a study of music that reveals a great deal of the general processes involved in obsolizing/obsoleting humans. Music’s a marvelous context … Read More

With the Fed meeting today, we are looking at the larger picture and asking…the same old question. Where’s the value? We think social media is beginning to crack up and as we laid out their business models as far back as 2013, we could see trouble coming.  But, it’s not social media that’s gone bad. When today’s latest … Read More

Does which way the toilet paper comes off the roll define your income? About 10-years ago, we did an information survey and it seemed that when the paper comes off the front of the roll, rather than the back, that there’s a weak association with higher household income.  Or, at least there was when we asked back … Read More

Let’s talk about something you won’t find on the “conspiracy” sites, and yet when considered in a nice, even-handed scientific way, makes eminent sense: We should be on guard for a new “hot button” to show up in headlines in the next week (or several) because the “emotional controls” on the population are getting weak … Read More

OK, no “making stuff” article Sunday, because I was spending time in my shop because I have a new project going on in background…blah, blah, blah. Except, that in the process, I got terribly peeved when my THIRD damn paper towel holder in the shop BROKE.  Right after I took a picture of the last … Read More