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Coping: With Late Night Radio Media Changes

Reader Mike wants to know what I think…something I avoid like the plague… George, You are a former top management media guy so I wonder if you see recent and coming events as a major move in media, or just a blip. As you likely know, one of the most sought after voices in radio, TV voice-over, etc. has left the most popular nighttime radio program because corporate interests did not value his truths. Somewhat parallel to this is that one of the greatest, most popular nighttime voices and visionaries in radio history will also soon leave the corporate rein to host his original program via livestream. As a radio listener since my first transistor in 1960, listening to The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, and Batman, I believe it is a media megashift, only beginning to occur, albeit–surprisingly–on radio, not satellite television.

The “Stuff” and the “Fan”

All kinds of people are likely to be disappointed by the morning’s financial developments. I mean besides the median price of Bitcoins at Mt. Gox showing $514.50 although other places are showing a more optimistic $647. No, we have larger (and more mainstream) fish to fry.

Gobs of Jobs

That’s the main idea that folks on Wall St. and in Washington would like to put out there, except whether it’s believable is another matter. We begin with the data just released by the Labor Department: Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 113,000 in January, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 6.6 percent, the U.

Asia Now: Rhymes on World War II

First thing I did this morning was ask “Is this the day I become a millionaire?” Then the answer came to me: No chance, fool. Still, betting on the market doing down has not been an entirely bad thing for us financially although early on this morning it looked like the market would bounce a bit, but that would be fine. What’s got our attention, more than anything, since we don’t get the jobs numbers until tomorrow, is what is the reference to “the rose people” that keeps peeking out of our www.

Turn-Around Tuesday

At least for a moment, maybe. But the early numbers didn’t look all that hot – 30+ by the Dow futures when I looked, but as Peoplenomics.com subscribers know, we’re laughing all the way to the bank on this latest slide. And tomorrow, we’ll be doing some work on answering the next question logically arising: “How far is down?

World Ending…but Which World?

Still saddled with this crummy flu/cold./plague/or pox upon me, I almost crawled back into bed this morning upon discovering that the world would be ending sometime in August of this year. Yes, there’s a story out on the Turner Radio Network (no relation to Ted, so far as we know) that assures us that a “Professor gives coordinates of planet inbound toward Earth.” Of course, the story’s cited source, a “Dr. Kaplan” (no first name given) seems to have a video up on YouTube, which would be terribly important except for one thing:

Coping: Notes from the WoWW

The WoWW is, in case you’ve forgotten, the World of Woo-Woo where we get lots of odd/curious things. For example, one note from a female reader informed me that.. . So I’ve given up on reading past articles that i had tried to save and really, as I sit here with aluminum foil on my head (my husband took a picture to try and blackmail me, but really, no one I know would even care) all I wanted to find was that article you posted on wearing some aluminum foil ..was it on your head or another body part?

Crash Planning: Joy of Cash – Data Bummers Arrive

As the market is likely to rally at the open this morning, I’m once again thinking about moving to cash. The reason is simple: Earlier this morning the S&P looked like it might rally 7 or 8 points, and although the Fed is not likely to actually do anything about getting off the easy-money addiction of quantitative easing, the new banking rules in China do give some reason for concern. To be sure, the stories about China’s banking picture do give mixed signals: “Is China running out of cash?

Coping: Flu, Robotics, Davos, and Useless Eaters

I’m almost totally immune to colds, flue, and “that stuff” that goes around every winter. But it gets me to thinking about flu, robots, Davos, and mass murder or excess humans…in roughly that order. My logic may seem a bit circuitous, but that’s the marvel of swilling cold medicine, isn’t it?Also, notice the qualifier word “almost?” When my son came back from skydiving last week he attributed his bronchitis and hoarseness to yelling a lot (which is something that skydivers do a lot of when doing link-ups and such).

Playing to the Fed, Quantitative China

The market looks to open firmer this morning…and why not? We still have more than a week to run until the Federal Reserve meeting, at which time most of the smart money seems to think that new Fed chair Janet Yellen will not rock the boat and will take a “go slow” attitude toward ending quantitative easing, which though losing its effectiveness has, nevertheless, allowed the Fed to keep the economy from catering. The latest bit of financial candy is that China is boosting liquidity and that, in turn, should give markets a goose globally. Between now and Fed day next week, we have a paucity of news and data to look forward to. There aren’t any big releases set this morning.

Droughtonomics – California Exodus II: 4-Million?

While the S&P is off into record setting territory and our Peoplenomics trading model is showing its stuff nicely, we need to consider the impacts of a left-field event that may lead to a California Exodus: The quickly evolving Drought. As you can see in the latest report out this week, the map has a big ugly spot that’s located right over the Central Valley and that’s where a good chunk of the nation’s fresh (and frozen) veggies and fruits come from. According to the data released with the report, and I don’t think there’s an issue sharing this because it is BIG news and of public concern: “There seems to be no relief in sight as the calendar flips over to 2014.

The –39% Baltic Dry Problem

“What the hell is the Baltic Dry problem and why are we being harangued about that on this fine Tuesday morning?” The Baltic Dry is an index of ocean shipping activity (by Dry Ships) that shows up most places on a delayed basis. You can see it updated yourself at www.dryships.com (see the market info) and then it lands in charts like this one over here with the symbol BDIY.

Jobs: What’s Not to Love?

As we expected, based on the reports out earlier this week from ADP and Challenger, the jobs picture does not paint a country on the verge of financial collapse. Quite the contrary, this morning’s report from the Labor Department is positively ducky… The unemployment rate declined from 7.0 percent to 6.7 percent in December, while total nonfarm payroll employment edged up (+74,000), the U.S.

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