Mini-Crash Alert: Today’s 1929 Replay market charts are here. Challenger Job Cuts Just out: “U.S.-based employers announced 275,240 job cuts in March, a 60% increase from the 172,017 cuts announced one month prior. It is up 205% from the 90,309 cuts announced in the same month in 2024, which was the highest monthly total recorded … Read More

We use terms like “Mini-Crash” sparingly.  But, with Dow Futures down more than 1,100 points, Techs own more than 700 and even the (semi-rational) S&P down over a hundred, here are the major features of our work that matter.  (Thank a Peoplenomics subscriber for making this possible…) First, with Smoot Hawley Tariff’s in full rhyme, the … Read More

xtensible Explorations: A.I, Energy, and the New Domain Frontier.  It’s a kind of “Brave New World” and has come into view due to recent research work in my “Old Man Labs.” Driven by some interesting and at times frightening engagements with: AI coauthoring of a 34-page medical paper on Charged Body (Blood) Theory. A new … Read More

We see the futures are down again today – and it’s not surprising.  Headwinds have been mounting and we are constantly scanning headlines and scheduled press release times looking for insights. You know that this morning the Labor JOLTS report will pop at 10 AM (Eastern).  Could that be the “turn”?  Or, could we continue … Read More

Another day in the “Domain-Steered Life” – which we will get into in the “Around the Ranch” section, later. For now, let’s chew on the real business of Monday: Understanding what it means to be jolted, eyeing the markets which – at least for the open – promise to look for a bottom. April 18 … Read More

I was very pleased – satisfied even – to see the headline on the Wall St. Journal site today: The Era of Cheap Stuff Was Already Ending. Now Comes the Tariff Threat.  – WSJ This is precisely the problem outlined in the book The-100 Year Toaster which was serialized on Peoplenomics.  If you are a recent … Read More

Yes, rouleaux in human blood in South Florida is real.  But its source? Unclear.  Diligent work continues by multiple doctors. But how does one talk about “that which can’t be easily spoken of?”  Answer: Write a book. Then, ask AI to review and critique.  Here’s Grok-3’s take on it. Book Review: Playbook: The War We Didn’t … Read More

We don’t like to bring up the past, but are we the only ones to remember G7, 2019?  Speculative, of course. But to the Developer Personality, well the “long grudge” isn’t just a half-baked notion.  It’s a chapter in the playbook. Honestly, picking up market remains in the ChartPack after Friday’s washout ain’t hard.  the … Read More

Well, after bloodshed was more like it in the markets today.  Let me show you what I mean.  Look at the lower right side of this: If you sdquint just so, you can see a faint “candle” (lighter blue” – which is where this market could still rally ahead of Easter, but a break below the previous … Read More

Ebbinghaus is easy – (click here if the term is new) – and a bit worrisome: Mid Day view of the Marginal 7’s hood shows trouble in paradise… Which is news around here. An old TV show rattlesd through headspace: “Warning! Warning!” ChatGPT said: “The phrase you’re recalling is “Danger, Will Robinson!” from the 1960s … Read More

A passing ponder provocatively persists: Thinking Styles Define Us. It’s a mini-theme today, because the (verging-on-academic) lab work around here somehow always ends up on the $40/year Peoplenomics.com site — where applied cognition meets market mechanics, and the occasional spiritual fishhook. Thinking styles matter. Immensely. They’re how we unconsciously sort people — into what a … Read More

Let’s roll through this quickly, since today’s column is “one on the clock” because of so many competing time demands here. GDP Just out (or, is that in?): “Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024 (October, November, and December), according to the third … Read More

Our first major use of A.I. as a “brain amplifier” is to construct a “Medical Paradigm Concept-Bridge.” Where we concept several treatment modalities (PEMF, scalar devices, and other forms of electro-medicine) as a whole and produce a useful new paradigm. This may seem a bit far afield from our usual economic fare, however core doctrine … Read More