2-cups worth today. This first part is easy. Pick up press release and read. Nonfarm business sector labor productivity increased 2.4 percent in the second quarter of 2025, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today, as output increased 3.7 percent and hours worked increased 1.3 percent. (All quarterly percent changes in this release are … Read More
The Preview of the Week seems like a good starting point (as always) on Monday. See, there’s a trick to living (relatively) stress-free: Make a list of all the crap you need/should get done. then just work through it in an orderly basis. I’ll get to my list for the week in a minute (no one … Read More
Well, here it is, a few minutes before 5 AM on a holiday Sunday, and before heading out to the shop, a visit to the 3806 (LSB) ham radio group was in order. There was “John-boy” (“coffee good!”) and a new fellow I hadn’t talked to before discussing the finer points of fly killing. With … 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
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
This is not simple and I’m sorry for the length of today’s post. We kinda, sorta, knew this was going to be happening: UFO/UAP/USOs – the whole lot of it. We saw in coming in Clif High’s early “Alta Reports” – where the language showed in his models as “space goat farts.” (Which we may … Read More
Since our roots are in economics – and specifically long wave economics as in Kondratieff – we should begin with the money drivers, first. Specifically the Federal employment report just out: “Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 227,000 in November, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics … Read More
Not exactly the kind of thing to brag about, but if you noticed the map on the “earthquake tireds I wrote about osome 8-Hours ago (and posted) we now know why: Official (revised): Event type: Earthquake Region: off the coast of Northern California Geographic coordinates: 40.299N, 125.377W Magnitude: 7.0 Depth: 10 km Universal Time (UTC): … Read More
(Let’s all take a deep breath and shake-off any possibility of Earthquake Tireds and hope everything remains -whatever passes for- normal over the weekend….) About That Trump Win… I wasn’t ready for the Reality we’re in now. Maybe you weren’t either? What I refer to is having a President-Elect who is hawking Trump Sneakers – … Read More
Our view of the markets – smacked by an “over-thousand-dollar paper loss Friday” will be back in the green virtually from the open, by the look of early futures prices. As you can see, our Aggregate Index is holding to the idea that the rally (back to new highs) is over. Having done its job … Read More
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I got up Sunday, put in the ground screw anchors for my next little deck-building adventure and then did my ham radio antenna engineering work. Everything was sailing along great and then I walked into the house from the screen porch. At which time I smashed … 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
No, we are not anxious to be talking about the market here. We are talking about what feels like “The Earthquake Tireds.” I got up and showered at 3 AM. But after the “morning stack” of supplements, I was sitting in the office and Wham! Can barely keep my eyes open. Busy weekend, one of … Read More