…would be dandy this time of year, wouldn’t it?  I mean, a glass of hot spiced wine – maybe a hot Apple Jack…fire going to keep the chill off?  Yeah, that’d be the way to spend fall. Portable radio. Football game on… Well, except, there’s one problem: We don’t have a patio. As luck would have … Read More

No, we did not take a short position ahead of expected weakness Monday.  But that in and of itself is a critical discussion every pari-mutuel investor needs to have (in advance) with themselves. To state Friday’s problem, do you take a short position when the market has not – yet – hit it’s likely “ideal … Read More

After Joe Biden’s well-delivered but wholly insufficient speech last night, the markets are poised to drop early today, and should there be a rally into the close, we might be among those buying short positions.

“Buster” will be on the Cyclops (the one-eyed monster called big screen) tonight at 8 PM.  However, we will be fading the happy talk going into the weekend. Why the irreverence (“Buster”)?  Because his trip to the Middle East was really a BUST. If anything, it made it clear to the Arab-Islamic side that the U.S. … Read More

On break in another lifetime today. We have written many times of our interest in doing a past life regression.  Now, being enrolled in an online mixed media program, not only have I actually had one.  But I also wrote a detailed account of events which runs just north of 5,000 words.  That’s book chapter-length. … Read More

Busy agenda today: Fed-influencing data in the form of retail sales.  A president shuttle ride?  And we have an odd feeling about a lower-latitude tropical depression.  In short? Another Tuesday in a string 000of 3,900, or so, such days in life. Retail: Details and Entrails The details just out from Census: Advance estimates of U.S. … Read More

Our spider sense about not being short this (pig of a) market over the weekend will apparently pay off this morning.  As the early futures were showing the market ready to pop a bit higher at the open. Biden as Eastwood? Farfetched?  But go with me on this, because sometime the clearest views of the future … Read More

This week a further discussion of using drones around our tree farm. You will remember last week; I was having an issue with a tree that got in the way of my (out of practice) drone flying skills.  So, I dropped the tree, right between a power pole and the greenhouse at the dirt garden. … Read More

We have it all lined up and served piping hot today.  Signs in the Sky (eclipse), wars and rumors of war, and talk about financial end times. Of course, this kind of talk goes on all the time in the doom porn world.  But in coming weeks, a gnawing sense of worry hints some of … Read More

Stock Futures were pointing to a weak open, earlier. Buoyed when better than expected import prices data hit.  But this doesn’t mean the downside won’t open over the weekend.   In fact, this weekend could be early. As a result, we’re going to “sit this one out.” An old investing axiom is “The Crowd is usually … Read More

We will jump cut right into the Cost-of-Living report just out.  Because this will temper how the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee looks at a potential rate hike at month-end.   (ready?) “The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.4 percent in September on a seasonally adjusted basis, after increasing 0.6 percent in … Read More

A reader brought the question to us (“Why does it feel like a Depression?“) driven by seeing how many under 50s still live with their parents, for example. It’s a dandy question – which takes us on a 4-thousand word jaunt from Al Capone’s soup kitchen in Chicago to the parallels between hoboes and illegal … Read More

The stock market has a certain eau d’ fraud going on, presently.  There is no rational reason for anyone to put money into markets when there is this amount of global uncertainty about the future. Yet, at the early pre-open check (about 6 AM Eastern) we were surprised to see futures attempting a run up to … Read More