This is what happens when you run afoul lessons in my recent book “The 100-Year Toaster.“  Companies make decisions as they mature to increasingly benefit executives and shareholders while the original Customers get screwed. I could insert a book-length treatise on this cyclical aspect of the SDLC, but you wouldn’t read it, so where is … Read More

Time to be asking such questions. Because one of the side effects of closing down American borders could be a lessening of long-term housing demand.  For now, we have today’s Case-Shiller/S&P Housing numbers to contemplate: (my underline) NEW YORK, JANUARY 28, 2025: S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) today released the November 2024 results for … Read More

China Just Won The Day DeepSeek Turned Tech and Wall Street Upside Down – WSJ. And worse? DeepSeek may not be alone:  Chinese AI DeepSeek rattled the industry. We would not be surprised, for example, if China’s already got government cloaked models working out long-range policy guidance to assure CCP world dominance. Could an A.I.-generated low risk … Read More

Opening line of our Peoplenomics.com ChartPack Saturday summed it all up: “We think there’s a good chance that the market will continue to sell off next week and a knockdown could show up as early as Monday.” Well, here we is, and here it goes:  With the NASDAQ preopen down more than 900 points. As we should … Read More

You – you lucky devil – will be learning about tube testing today.  But before we do that, a background course in radio repair as a warm-up… It was a quiet weekend on the electronics bench as Universe had presented a mildly interesting case: A super cheap (Under $100 on eBay) radio – classic Heathkit … Read More

Ah, the headlines – sounds like government waste.  But today we have a dandy example of weaponized accounting to kick off the neurons. And, after that, we’ll consider the odds of a major downside Monday which floated to the top of today’s ChartPack. Now toss lightly with a sprinkling of politics and…gee, looks like the … Read More

Market futures were down following yesterday’s rally at an unusual time.  In our Aggregate markets view, the Tech sector had continued to lag and could not reach a “necessary kiss” at overhead resistance. When we look at our Aggregate Index (an index of indices of U.S. markets), we are just now “walking resistance higher”.  In … Read More

There isn’t much going on for the rest of this week.  Trump is in, and going to work, while liberals and the lawfaring industry are predictably pissed.  Balance is back. Merit matters, again. But, our macro problems have yet to be addressed. We return, for a second, to the matter of SynGro.  That’s Synthetic Growth.  It’s … Read More

Can we learn something about markets from noticing how people “forget” things?  Over a hundred years ago, some basic research into human psychology laid some important groundwork.  Which we rip through, helped by our A.I. accomplice (research helper). This is a neat bit of research because it points out one of the more promising branches … Read More

As you may know, we keep several “live now” channels up and streaming when news flows and market action is high.  Days like, well, today. We couldn’t help but notice that ultra-liberals of 18 states and the city of San Francisco have already filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration’s Executive Order on anchor … Read More

In some aspects, it was an All-Day Circus. By historical measures, it was unprecedented. Over the course of the week, markets will begin the “rebalancing project” of America’s Future, a good place to begin our discussion.  Because most of the mainstream is obsessing over Trump issues sweeping pardon of supporters charged in the Jan. 6, … Read More

Sometimes, the headlines lay it all out. You just have to keep all the moving pieces in mind. Pope Francis calls Trump’s plans of mass deportation of immigrants ‘a disgrace’ And yet, just last week: Vatican cracks down on illegal entry into its territory. A side of double standards with that, Your Holiness? -ure

Legal Scholars will have their hands full:  As a final insult to America on his way out the door, Biden pardons Fauci, Milley, and members of the Jan. 6 committee | AP News.  We aren’t sure this is legal because crimes have not been charged.  So we put the question to A.I. Yes, a president … Read More