The Big Changes that Matter Are in Background

The stock market will recover a bit more of its 200+ point nosebleed experienced earlier in the week. But there are many “moving parts” going on in background that you may not be aware of because they are not as simple to dispense and “keeping up with the class” is more than a 5-second Trump-bash. … Read More

Dow 38,228? Kashkari Right at FOMC But So What?

By our East Texas Outback reasoning, Neel Kashkari of the Minneapolis Fed was the only one at the FOMC meeting this week who seems to “get it” with regards to the coming mega bubble and blow-off that could come close to doubling the Dow from today’s levels between today and a year from July. Go … Read More

What is a Deficit Reduction Worth?

Time for the Grown-Ups to discuss Healthcare Spending… The basic question posed by the Wall Street Journal headline this morning is really “What’s a free lunch worth?” They point to a Congressional Budget Office report: “CBO Sees 24 Million More Uninsured, $337 Billion Deficit Cut in Coming Decade With GOP Health Plan.” Let’s do the … Read More

As Predicted Last Week, Market to Open Down Tuesday

Our Peoplenomics.com subscribers have to be delirious about the accuracy of our work.  Did I, or did I not tell ya’ll last week that the market should put in a short-term low today? Earlier, it was looking like the Dow would open down 20, but I reckon it will drop even more later on.  Then … Read More

Profound Investing Advice: What Investors Learn from Golf

WTF do people expect here? I got an email from a reader (in the Comments section) who is very, very upset with what he takes as a lack of precision in terms of forecasting the minute of popping of the mega-bubble we’re now in. Specifically, he doesn’t like the idea that when the year began, … Read More

Ure’s Pissed: Trump Ought To Call-Out Congress

George on the Soap Box this morning. Skip the first article if you just want the daily ration of press releases and market stuff. You see? Eventually, when you have enough money, principles DO MATTER. Whether you agree with his policies, or not, president Trump is likely to call for a major revision in the … Read More

A Fed Rate Discussion

TTo reintegrate our position on what’s ahead, it’s all really very simple: The Election of Trump is a spitting-image of the 1928 election of Herbert Hoover. Tomorrow in our www.peoplenomics.com subscriber newsletter, we will cover parallels between the 2006-2008 real estate bubble and we’ll compare that with the 1920’s Florida Land boom. From Hoover taking … Read More

Coping: Millennial’s Book 7: [keyword: 512 Matrix]

(simple title art) Reader Note: If you are just catching on, each Thursday we’re are doing a chapter each week of a book I’m writing for Millennials – teaching the insights that will (hopefully!) allow them to live long and prosper – and be around to clean up after us Old People who made a … Read More

Buckle – Up Monday

You know when Monday is going to be a “building tensions” day when your first round of chess to limber-up the brain goes like this: By the 19th move, the computer was laughing “Mate in 3.”  So I haplessly concluded another entry in my journal:  Don’t play chess near the full moon; scores are lower. … Read More

Dinnertime TV? Oroville Dam Failure Looms

Phone rang at 6:37 AM. My consigliere was on the horn. He got up early to run the numbers: “Latest rate-of-rise calculations I’ve run for the Oroville dam is that it is likely pass capacity before dinnertime tonight in California. 12 to 14 hours from now. Looks like the emergency spillway will be eaten-back, too…because … Read More

T-Bash du Jour: Trade War

The hand-wringing is so intense this morning I feel like I should be passing out cans of Burt’s Bees Hand Salve.  Politico warns us of “How Trump wall could beckon global trade war…” Over at the NY Times they claim “Tax Plan Sows Confusion as Tensions With Mexico Soar.” The Washington Post looks at the matter … Read More

Coping: “Light Crown” Project Update 3

What is the “Light Crown Project?” Yeah, let’s start there… As I explained in the December 28 Coping section “That report outlined some curious historical evidence that I had both discovered and intuited by reading a lot of history and, because of my wife Elaine’s experience with a cutting edge photo biomodulation technique for treatment … Read More

Trump Week One in Double-Standard Land

I don’t know if you remember the first week of the Obama administration. But it was goo-goo and gah-gah and “Oh this is so cool.” Yet to see the crime-spree demonstrators and the vulgarity of the made-up “women’s marches” what comes into focus is that America has become racist, sexist, and bigoted, indeed.  International Women’s … Read More