Coping: When You Find Yourself in the Asylum

I was thinking Monday (after revisiting my pillow for a while) “What would people find really useful – compelling – conversation on a Tuesday morning? I kept staring at the headlines about the Shill and Comey staging in Washington when it hit me like a ton of bricks! How to survive in an Insane Asylum!!! … Read More

Where is the Trump-Bashing Apology?

Didn’t see it, did you? Well, there are stories both on WND and InfoWars this morning about the NSA program called Project Dragnet.  SAurveiled Trump (18 locations?). Now, you may not LIKE the story (if you’re a Trump-basher) and we certainly didn’t see it mentioned on the front page of the NY Times today, but … Read More

Coping: UHD 2 and The Art of Parts

Good morning from yet-another writing location. No, not on a road trip, or anything like that. Instead, this morning I am using the music studio computer which has not enjoyed our publishing software until this weekend when I did some major “surgery”on the room. This morning I have that 49” UHD monitor online in here … Read More

Global Market Entrainment and Historical Resonance

While we sit around waiting for the Global Upside Breakout (or fifth wave failure) to clarify, we have some interesting theoretical ideas to bounce around this morning… In coming weeks, we will get back into the more prosaic problems of Urban Survival in the Age of Funny Money…but for now,, we’re seriously focused on helping … Read More

Where is my Damn Rally?

Yee of little faith. No, our blow-off may not begin today (as we have been hoping with a very large long-side position on the table by our standards) but we remain hopeful the world will shortly see things our way. Allow to to explain how markets work in our nut-job  point of view: If you … Read More

Coping: With the Death of Reading.

I have been perplexed recently – although not the first time – by a continuing erosion in people’s reading skills. It seems that with the advent of GoPro videos and YouTube people’s interest in reading have been dropping dramatically. Paper thin attention spans. We may begin posting MP3s to YouTube with our morning remarks. Although … Read More

Dow 38,228? Kashkari Right at FOMC But So What?

By our East Texas Outback reasoning, Neel Kashkari of the Minneapolis Fed was the only one at the FOMC meeting this week who seems to “get it” with regards to the coming mega bubble and blow-off that could come close to doubling the Dow from today’s levels between today and a year from July. Go … Read More

Coping: Millennial’s Book 11: [keyword: Execution]

simple title art) Reader Note: If you are just catching on, each Thursday we’re are doing a chapter each week of a book I’m writing for Millennials – teaching the insights that will (hopefully!) allow them to live long and prosper – and be around to clean up after us Old People who made a … Read More

Power Sources and Silver

This week I’ve spent a little time looking into what some have called “new electrics” but which seem likely to really fall more under the description “New Sources” – of power. But we don’t stop there – as we go looking at how New Sources may be using a fair bit of silver to make … Read More

What is a Deficit Reduction Worth?

Time for the Grown-Ups to discuss Healthcare Spending… The basic question posed by the Wall Street Journal headline this morning is really “What’s a free lunch worth?” They point to a Congressional Budget Office report: “CBO Sees 24 Million More Uninsured, $337 Billion Deficit Cut in Coming Decade With GOP Health Plan.” Let’s do the … Read More

Coping: With “Spring ‘Ranch-keeping’

Or, we could call this morning’s Coping articling “Shop Time for Bozo.” A more (or less) practical report this morning on progress being made on spring cleaning of Ure’s all-purpose Old Man Labs support shop. The organizational plan is blocked out as Excel gobs but you can get the general idea: Red for saws, gray … Read More

Cool: Like Weather and Markets

Once again, the Great American Hype Machine is set to roll with a “Horrible Winter Snow Blast” like it is supposed to mean something.  I haven’t bothered to look for it, but I’m sure someone will give it a name.  All part of the branding process. Yes kiddies, it will snow tomorrow – up to … Read More

Coping: Daylight Stupid Time

The story told to me by Pappy, back before the dawn of political correctness, involved a certain Native American who was reported to have said: “What man is so foolish. He cuts a foot off the bottom of his blanket. Then he sews it to the top of his blanket and believe he has a … Read More