The “news budget” this week is pretty interesting: Consumer Prices tomorrow, Housing Starts Thursday, but just more FedSpeak on the rubber-chicken circuit Friday. The BIG event Friday will be the Trump Inauguration ceremony in front of the U.S. Capitol. High noon, Trump will be sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts . Just … Read More

Minor disaster here at the Ranch Monday:  Our Rain gauge broke. Could I have fixed it?  Ummm… I suppose so, but it was getting sun-damaged and I felt like living large a bit, so I went shopping. Here is the data as collected by Old Man Labs research: NCAA Penn State Nittany Lions Rain Gauge: … Read More

With the markets closed, here at Uretopia Ranch, other than a hellatious amount of rain overnight, there’s little to do with all the computing horsepower at Old Man Labs. We are left with little to do but look at how various media are still using the commemoration of Dr. King’s death to drive wedges between Americans. … Read More

[From my Peoplenomics.com Report #800-B of Saturday shared with universal subscriber support that we work to get this idea out there.] I wanted to jot down a few ideas based on a “lost commodity” in America:  The Art of Thinking Big and doing something about it.  Due to the feminization/neutering of America, old-fashioned male whupp-ass … Read More

Yes, Retail Sales Matter and we have a fresh one just off the press over at Census. Here’s how it looks: Advance Estimates of U.S. Retail and Food Services  Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for December 2016, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, … Read More

Crisco-what-a-phobia? Oh!  Triska then… Many items on the agenda this morning, so let’s begin with a note from reader Sherlyn on the Millennial’s Missing Handbook chapter from Thursday’s report. She writes: “I would appreciate it if you could give a brief example of how these methods can be applied to our personal lives. I am … Read More

Some FedSpeak and Import Prices in a minute. But first we need to point out the Kennedyesque risks presently faced by Donald Trump as he’s gotten “in the face” of the U.S. intelligence community by running his own “sting operation” on them. We would not be surprised to see one of Trumps first actions after … Read More

(book title then article begins if graphics are down) 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 … Read More

A kind of short-form companion to our recently presented eBook for subscribers on Sales, this morning we roll through the six stages of marketing. Although mainly useful if you have a management position in a company, being aware of these steps will help you in many ways, including how you “size up” companies you are … Read More

Here in East Texas, anyway. And no, not really climate because that is really weather because climate is a function of multiple el Nino/ la Nina cycles over a good period of time, say 50-100 YEARS. But let’s go along with the global tax scam promoters and remark on how earlier this week we recorded … Read More

Hell of a “Recipe” this morning: Ingredient 1: Remember the television series “Quantum Leap?” Wiki it sometime: “Quantum Leap is an American science fiction television series that originally aired on NBC for five seasons, from March 1989 through May 1993. Created by Donald P. Bellisario, it starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist … Read More

Going Away Present for Obama? First thing we noticed this morning was that Dow futures were down about 30-points. But since the Dow closed last week around 19,964, knocking 30 points off at this morning’s open shouldn’t amount to a hill of beans. On the other hand, remembering our old edict that “Techs lead the … Read More

A report from Old Man Labs and the question about whether Food dictates what you learn, but first…. Son-in-law took off for the PNW Sunday morning, but not before giving us some fine pointers on his creatively-evolved art of “people-watching.” Since he had a couple of 2-hour layovers in Dallas between Uretopia Ranch and Seattle-Tacoma, … Read More