(See the Reader Advisory at the end of this column…) PPI (CPI Tomorrow) Producer Prices can be an indication of inflation in the pipeline. Here’s what’s just been announced by the government. (Pass me a grain of salt, would you?) The Producer Price Index for final demand increased 0.1 percent in July, seasonally adjusted, the … Read More

Um…humor the Old Man.  Give him a chance to roll out the rewrite of past lectures to you – ill0prepared – journalists who are trying to become famous.  The advice? “Don’t write stupid.” Some examples?  Sure. Let’s kick off with Trump falsely accuses Harris campaign of fabricated AI crowd photos.  The problem here is that … Read More

Here you thought the Pun Police would have the weekend off.  Nope. Our silly and small project of the weekend is assembly of a hose reel for up at the greenhouse end of the old place here in the woods.  In addition to 100 feet of that semi-fancy stainless hose that promises to be less … Read More

It’s almost like a derivative function. But it’s designed as a pathway for the visually stimulated trader to make graphical observations over time that may improve trading.  I know, sounds a little “out there” but you might find otherwise when you see the case. There’s always the small dose of overnight news flow to inspect, … Read More

Japan’s Nikkei 225 closed at 35,025.00 overnight. And we would not be surprised to see a bit of rally early this morning ahead of the weekend. But it’s what happens over the weekend that promises to be interesting. As you know, the Bank of Japan recently raised its interest rate.  Wasn’t a lot, but it was … Read More

The Pacific Plate is dancing again.  As many of our readers have been experiencing the “earthquake tireds” over the past week, or two, along comes a 7.1 quake in Japan to fill expectations: We have mentioned that recent activity off the West Coast, in particular off the coast of Washington/British Columbia has fall back into … Read More

ere we are, a few thousand points lower, and what’s George got to show for it?  A new book? May sound odd, but I really love to write and getting into the “writing trance” is really good for me.  Stresses of life just fade away and a new story unfolds. There is already one book in … Read More

The beginning of Mercury Retrograde was a grand turning point.  The market began to “bounce back” and troubled Japan gained back more than 10 percent of their more than 12 percent loss previously. Gold was set to pop a bit silver was about flat. Copper has done OK (war is still coming) and lumber prices … Read More

We have been in such a Bubble, for so long, that no one seems to appreciate how close to a 1929 style Collapse we are likely skirting.  And if may have everything to do with the growing risk of global war. Which the Powers that Be hold as an ace card to be played when their … Read More

The end of my Personal Retrograde Hell ended about 12:45 PM Sunday.  That’s when the new minicomputer began to function perfectly.  Not a big deal? This is a tale about Mercury Retrograde.  Retrograde means that if you’re outside and closely watching the night sky, the apparent motion of the planet Mercury seems to reverse and go backwards … Read More

A funny thing happened this week as we busted through one of our long-expected trend channels.  What’s more, we are just at our 85-day/17-week moving average which – back tested to 1998, has been a reasonable alternative to the (more conventional) 50DMA ore the 100DMA trading indicators. The computer part is woven in because this … Read More

Have a look at the critical support top of the trend channel now that we are more than an hour into today’s session: A couple of ways this could play out: A reverse higher bounce off the trend line. But we could also sink under, then come up to the trend top and fall apart. The … Read More

“Oh, dear, what can the matter be?”  Gotta minute? You may not realize it, but this is a common nursery rhyme (and round) which was drilled into the group socialization process back when many of us “Boomers or sometwhere in there) people were growing up.  Sayeth Wikipedia: “Oh, Dear! What Can the Matter Be?“, also known … Read More