The market will be open today, but on a reduced schedule.  Closing for stocks will be at 1 PM and for bonds 2 PM (Eastern) as America finally gerts what organized labor was really agitating for over the years: It’s a 28-hour workweek! Unless you have a lawn, which pushes out workweek around here to … Read More

Since so many people will be spending time with outdoor cooking gear tomorrow, here’s a short course on how to make perfect BBQ. You never want the world to end — watching the nukes go off — with two wasted filets…Think of today as you’re introduction to fireball cookery. If you are a big animal rights … Read More

As we delve into history this morning, we found it particularly ominous that democrats in Washington are again/still attempting to remove president Trump from office. But it is not to be unexpected, given how the lsser known English Civil Wars came about.  Trump is clearly in the Charles 1 role as tensions mount. That and … Read More

If you are not a subscriber to our (cheap – $40/year) insider view of things on the www.peoplenomics.com site, and you don’t understand what is happening in the market right now, consider this a Fourth of July gift. I don’t share too much of the Peoplenomics content because there are so many people who are “free … Read More

Here’s an odd concept that popped up while I was waking up a few morning’s back: I wondered if there has even been a study to see if there is a correlation between what is on a person’s nightstand and how their health works out long term? When you think about it, that might be … Read More

Yup:  Trading account is smiling at us this morning in the wake of the Dow’s big 143-point gain yesterday, which we figure will be added-to today as futures are up 25’ish early, but more seems plausible before the close. This could be the start of a smashing run to about August 21st, or so, but … Read More

This is bigger than the space race. It’s one of the topics that I will be talking about on Coast to Coast with George Noory on August 3rd, since that will be about three weeks ahead of the all-time-high we have been forecasting for August 21-24. More importantly, though, it might be a way to … Read More

This morning we try to sketch up what Life in the After-Crash will probably look like next year, and the year after that. This as America seems increasingly likely to hit our all-time-high stock market window August 21-24th.  From there, it will be two things:  First of which is “Look out below!“But the other is … Read More

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