Just out from Case-Shiller/S&P: NEW YORK, JUNE 27, 2017 – S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices. Data released today for April 2017 shows that home prices continued their rise across the country over the last 12 months. More than … Read More

Been thinking about something a fair bit lately.  We have this recording studio – and in it are a fair number of instruments.  But we can only play a handful of them. Sure, we both took music lessons when we were younger (which takes in most of the past century): Elaine played some violin (no … Read More

Yippee!  This will be a pre-holiday week. And around here we look forward to such events because markets usually firm up ahead of holidays, although in the final hours of the lead-in to the holiday, there are also those who get cold feet and won’t hold through the holiday because of perceived risks. That said, … Read More

While Elaine and Zeus the Cat keep an eye on the homestead, Ure’s truly will be off to the eye docs for a one year (or so) follow-up to the eye surgeries this morning. As you’ll recall, this is from a conventional IOL of some 25-years going bad (by slipping out of position) and having … Read More

Want to get rich? Want to find a new way to play poker better (and/or longer)? You, my friend, might wish to consider a new hobby:  The Quest for Hidden Variables. Which we shall discuss with some application notes after headlines and charts this fine summer morning…then off to play some poker with the idea … Read More

Oh, boy. Here we go again into a terribly (politicalized) discussion of who should get how much healthcare and who should pay for it. Going around today is the discussion of what kind of Medicaid cuts are coming in the (sickly) GOP healthcare reform of Obamacare. The Washington Post has a pretty good article here … Read More

Major changes in the world…and some are going on in remote mountain areas. My buddy Gaye Levy (and her Survival Hubby) are on now genuine Mountain People.  Gaye recently retired from www.backdoorsurvival.com.  Unable to relax, she’s already writing a new site at www.strategic-living.net. Having done “all things prepper” she wants to focus on the more strategic … Read More

Although it is not a hard-and-fast rule, there is oftentimes something of an upward bias to markets in the period leading into major holidays. So, with the Fourth Of July three or four day weekend just ahead, it’s no wonder that I find myself somewhat long the market, waiting for the Big Move to the … Read More

With me focused on a new way of looking at statistics, and applying it at the gaming tables (remember that odd symbol in the dream world a while back?) I can’t think of a better discussion than the little matter of the evolving merger between physics and the world of religion slash belief sets. What … Read More

Onto the battlefield of Social Delusions this morning as we take on the Higher Education Lobby.There is no reason why we – as a country –  can’t offer free, government-paid four year degrees to all citizens.  Anyone hear of “online?” Except for the simple reason that we all too often say one thing and then … Read More

Why, the headlines this morning are good enough that Al Gore should be flying to Phoenix right now in order to do another sales job on climate change and his friends in the carbon exchange, which was all enabled by a then-junior state senator in Illinois, back when, one Barack Obama). Here’s a headline from … Read More

Why would anyone spend money to launch a new website to be called www.americanvoterboycott.org? The answer is simple:  I think people are sick and tired of special interests outbidding us in local government, state offices, and in Congress. But, as I will map out this morning, we actually DO have the power to change that. … Read More

A number of people have asked me privately to explain where we are in the parabolic blow-off in digimoney, especially Bitcoin. As you know, it did look like the BTCs were going to the moon, or $3,000, but then a funny thing happened. So let’s take a look at a couple of chars because there … Read More