At the Ranch – Reader Note:  You may get an “odd response” from this website while I am doing the final round of tuning before we go behind a paywall Feb. 14, of next year.  Our present web tuning is designed to speed up the site, but while the ads are gone, so are a … Read More

Monday – meh. There’s really very little action to kick the week off. Other than the tit-for-tat game in the Middle East and the grinding down of Ukraine. And the NorKs going to Kursk and… But the first issue is data which begins flowing tomorrow with a week to roll until the presidential (bad choices) will … Read More

This is (kind of)  a How-To on Hydroponics. You remember my mentioning that I’m building “workstations” for senior living, right? How cool it would be if you could have everything right at hand to make indoor growing a treat instead of a chore? But water indoors is problematic.  So this is also about Designing and … Read More

Don’t look now, but a dangerous story of “tits and tats” seems to be opening.  Because Israel – as expected – attacked Iran overnight. But things are far from settled. So, in addition to a nice quiet Saturday news review and the week’s closing ChartPack, some speculation on what happens next. More for Subscribers ||| … Read More

HDNBW with a side of Fatal Distractions? This is a dandy time to discuss the value of broad perspectives and the importance of generalization skills. Because for most of us, the coming couple of weeks will bring the culmination of many long-chain event sequences that none of us will have any influence over.  So best … Read More

In keeping with our focus on Long Wave Economics – that, along with prepping for anything goes being the cornerstones of this site – let’s begin with a Big Long Term view because it is very important. As explained in our Peoplenomics.com ChartPack Wednesday, its hard to deny that we’re in a financial bubble the likes of … Read More

Two worthy topics on tape today (besides the weekend war outlook). We do some mighty interesting (and humbling) calculations comparing the 1929 bubble (and inflation from the Great Depression) with modern times.  You talk about getting knocked down a notch! Then we do another chapter of our Longevity book (“Tell your doctor” – but it … Read More

You know the old saying, right? “Man who keeps ear to ground risks being run over!” And yet, there is so damn much going on that a little “ground sounding” seems like a useful thing to do in here. Starting with a look at the markets in the Pre-Open with our Aggregate Index to see … Read More

Boy, this is turning into a simple column to write:  The “Waitstate Weekend” from our Peoplenomics.com report Saturday morning has been exended. And judging by what’s on the news budget for the day, not much change seems likely. On the economics side, our wildly over-leveraged long-expiration put options are likely to bounce back a bit … Read More

Most of the projects out here are pretty interesting and there’s a lot to be learned by studying them.  Like the small (8X8) deck project that wound up this week with the completion of the railings.  As wife (and OSHA site inspector) Elaine puts it “Adds to the house and it doesn’t look so much … Read More

We have a list of “life-changing, but for now still pending” events that make us a bit cranky this weekend.  No, not that we are in a hurry for WW III to break out, nor are we anxious for the wrong presidential candidate to get the nod by voters.  OK, and we don’t really want … Read More

We are (at last!) nearing the end of the political silly-season.  The Election is about 17 days out.  And as the mainstream keeps touting, there’s what some stories report as a 72 percent chance of a Harris win.  As in The stock market still leans to this candidate winning the presidential election. For us, however, … Read More

Retail Sales: Might as well get this one off the table at once. So we can get back to our back-alley pool where the odds are increasing that when Israel goes-a-popping Iran, it will be next Tuesday. Because that’s when the BRICS brass will be in Kazan, Russia.  And world focus will be elsewhere. So … Read More