What in the world to I mean by an Elvis market? Yup, trapped in a range bound nightmare. Despite yesterday’s decline and the accompanying headlines […]
A Preparation for Hyperinflation or Worse?
While these pages were busy recovering from surgery, a story broke about Walmart initiating a change of its price labeling system from "paper" to digital. This video from ABC-36 WTVQ is a sample of what was rolled out to little concern: While this might seem innocuous enough as Kohl's has had this system in place for years to offer "flash" discounts to customers, this was before the era of commodity shortages, rapid inflationary surges, and economic instability that has happened long since that was the norm. Is this something new? No, not really but now that it has appeared in stores, the story gets media coverage. It actually was announced via Walmart's website on June 6, 2024: New Tech, Better…
A Preparation for Hyperinflation or Worse?
While these pages were busy recovering from surgery, a story…
Wash, Rinse, Repeat: Stocks Hit Another All Time High
But Where oh Where Have I Seen this Before Before…
Trucking’s Pre-Recession Warning or Impending Recovery?
The recent recessionary directional indication from the 4th quarter GDP…
It’s TACO Tuesday And Trump is Chickening Out Again; Or is He?
The proverbial "fog of war" continues to descend faster than…
2023 Vacation Book Review #3: The Mandibles (a Family 2029-2047)
Finally I get to provide a somewhat positive review for an old piece of doomer fiction that somehow had slipped through the cracks for me […]
2023 Vacation Book Review #2: The Price of Tomorrow
For my long time readers, most of you understand that I am not an optimist about the outcome of economic policy over the long term […]
2023 Vacation Book Review #1: Megathreats a Megadud
The one nice feature about taking vacations away from reality is that I finally get some time to catch upon reading books that I have […]
My Public Service Posting for the Day: Airport Lounge Bloody Mary Reviews
This is a totally unnecessary, irrelevant and meaningless post but for those of you that fly domestic or internationally, I hope you will appreciate it […]
Long Time Readers Know this Market Warning Sign
For those of you have listened to my radio show and read these pages off and on over the past sixteen years know, that picture […]
These People are Sick and Openly Flaunting It
If one does not believe me, check out this post from the United Nations via their Geneva Switzerland headquarters yesterday: They do not care if […]
It’s the A.I. You Don’t Know About That You Should Fear
The terror and mythology of robots dominating mankind has been persistent in global culture for over a century now. Be it in the black and […]
About those AWESOME Apple Earnings
Sigh. The pump and dumpers are all over this again in the after hours of the market as they scream that it’s the greatest company […]
4/28 Bank Failure Friday Rides Again: First Republic Bank of California, Come on Down (5/1-Updates)-Acquired by JP Morgan Chase
5/1/23 UPDATE 0426 ET: The financial world was saved from rampant speculation overnight as the rumors began to swirl around midnight on the savior of […]
Tucker Carlson’s First Video After his Fox Departure Just Dropped
This is very, very insightful… Good evening pic.twitter.com/SPrsYKWKCE — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 27, 2023 Good response and I’m sure there is more to come!
The Stock Market is Still Stuck in the Mud
The usual suspects have been on the bubblevisions projecting a “new new” bull market and at the same time, others pushing that the end of […]
Chapter 11 (Finally) for Bed, Bath, and Begone
Bed, Bath, and Beyond, one of the retailers that became a meme stock, has finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in NJ as the […]
It’s All Falling Apart: U.S.A. Edition (Videos)
And it’s only going to accelerate as the summer progresses… Chicago: Wouldn’t you close your businesses if community members destroyed their own communities? pic.twitter.com/WPxYcVtBSz — […]
Some Saturday Morning Prepper Advice
If you have the means or ability, stock up now. A major storm is on the horizon. Remember, they don’t care about you or your […]