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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
The Left is really playing dirty now, in their efforts to keep the duly-elected President from taking office. First example is by talking about how a “Disaster could put Obama cabinet member in Oval Office” in this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/qxIG4dduqy0 Trying to get some “Catcher in the Rye” reader to go off, you think? Second … Read More
Yes, Retail Sales Matter and we have a fresh one just off the press over at Census. Here’s how it looks: Advance Estimates of U.S. Retail and Food Services Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for December 2016, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, … Read More
In a second, we’ll get to the ADP and Challenger job numbers. But first, a discussion of context is in order. For those too young to remember, the term “drink the Kool-Aid” arose from the tragic events at Guyana in 1978. From Wikipedia: “”Jonestown” was the informal name for the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project formed … Read More
(A one-piece report this morning due to holiday and markets being closed.) While many media outlets use the end-of-year period to go through too-many replays of last year’s news, we prefer to look “the other way.” That’s because once something sails by the ever-present Now, it’s gone and you’re left – as in golf – … Read More
Just out: S&P CoreLogic, Case-Shiller Housing press release. Think of this as an “extra present” if you own a home: “NEW YORK, December 27, 2016 – S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices. Data released today for October 2016 shows … Read More