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2012 Archive
01/28/2012:
Week ending January 28, 2012: We
marvel at how well the economy continues to stumble through.
Iran tensions though, just keep building and the Fed's promise
of easy money through 2014 leads us into the murky waters of "confusonomics"
01/21/2012
Week ending January 21, 2012:
Consumer prices continued to turn in a tame performance in
December's numbers released this week. I think there's a
chance that we're getting into a serious window of opportunity
to invest in solar power, and the usualy strange happenings from
around the WuJo...
01/16/2012
Week ending January 14, 2012:
We continue seeing "lots of moves on the chessboard" in the
Middle East, the stock market wallows along and the outlook for
Europe is - as usual punctuated by periodic (and idiotic) claims
that just a little more paper and a little more debt will fix
things. You betcha...
01/09/2012
Week ending January 7, 2012: Off
and then on again, another Shape of Things to Come report will
take place in a few weeks. The market has a pretty good
week but that may be telling us the top of this move is near.
And we wonder if a bird flu outbreak would cause the kind of
troubles seen for March 2-9?
01/02/2012
Week ending December 31, 2011:
The Gold/Bond split we suggested last year is the clear winner
as we compare how different investments fared over 2011.
Plus, I have a dream of an earthquake in Asia 6.7 to 6.9..,,
2011 Archive
12/24/2011 Week
ending December 24, 2011: After patiently waiting for
a Santa Claus rally, one shows up, just in time to put the
ribbons on what would otherwise have been a losing year for the
markets.
12/17/2011 Week
ending December 17, 2011: There's a not bad Consumer
Price report to ponder, China is testing it's first full-sized
aircraft carrier, and we edge toward the Holiday Season with a
new Karaoke system - a real earful.
12/10/2011:
Week ending December 10, 2011: The market has a flat
sort of week while we wait for a Christmas rally but the big
deal this week is how the EU has managed to paper-over it's
tremendous world-ending mess until March if they can keep
passing out the drugs or whatever. Jon Corzine says he
doesn't know where all that MF Global money went...surprised?
12/03/2011 Week
ending December 3, 2011: A fine majick show this week
as the unemployment rate seemed to improve markedly to 8.6%, but
upon closer inspection we wonder how did 315-thousand people
just "disappear" from the workforce numbers to make it so?
Other statistical adventure was found as the stock market put on
a huge advance just as the Fed was figuring out new and better
ways to help fellow central banksters "paper over" the collapse
of Europe for a while longer.
11/28/2011 Week
ending November 26, 2011: Not too much going on -
we're out on the road on our "half across America" tour, and the
prospects are high for a profitable Black Friday.
11/21/2011 Week
ending November 19, 2011: Usual crap with declining
markets, bs politics, saber rattling in the Middle East and we
head out for a trip half around America
11/14/2011 Week
ending November 14, 2011: Week ends with a typical
preholiday rally while questions linger about which bank(s) may
have profited in the MF Global collapse. We look up, but
YU55 goes by without a glitch, so another source of world-ending
is now needed for the really paranoid.
11/05/2011 Week
ending November 11, 2011: Unemployment remains 'stuck'
at 9%, we worry about the upcoming YU55 earth/moon crossing next
week, and our usual pig-spotting as the misadventures of
Europe's overgrown government upon government upon people
continues to turn gangrenous.
10/31/2011:
Week ending October 29, 2011: The European Union is
saved [again] so now we get to see how long this hot patch
works. Personal income is reported up but just a tad, and
we ask an interesting tax question about political parties...
10/24/2011 Week
ending October 22, 2011: The M1 inflation rate
ocntinues to soar - money in from foreign countries, or massive
printing by the fed? Does it matter? Driving a huge
US rally onward. Americans are tranking up in record
numbers and with BofA moving $75 trillion of derivatives into
their banking unit, who can blame them?
10/14/2011 Week
ending October 15, 2011: A strong rally continues in
the markets as retail sales rise and there's ome (although it
might be mistaken for a song and dance show) about the Eurozone.
Just because Slovakia turns down the bailout... And some
thoughts on Piri Reis' maps and the Nazca Lines
10/10/2011 Week
ending October 10, 2011: We wonder about the latest jobs
report, the market rallies a bit on hopes & prayers for a real
bailout of the EU (don't hold your breath yet) and we look at
the issue of how far our civilization may go into space...
10/03/2011 Week
ending October 1, 2001: Despite all the hoopla, the
notional value of derivatives continues to increase.
Market is down hard again at mid week, and the public is now
getting a serious view of those occupy Wall St. types.
09/26/2011
Week ending September 24, 2011:
A new web bot run is out, there's a chance of a mkajor rally
coming before the meltdown late Octoberish is one way to read
it, and what is with all the Sun x-class and M-class flares
lately?
09/19/2011 Week
ending September 17, 2011: Fine that consumer prices
were only up 3.8% annualized, but what about the M1 money
printing festival over at the Fed? Going up at an annual
rate of almost 37%! Not much change at West Coast ports as
we look for signs of life in a flat economy...
09/12/2011 Week
ending September 9, 2011: Forest fires engulf
thousands of acres in Texas and as the economy declines,
president Obama comes out with a jobs package which while nice
has no more chance than a snowball in hell...
09/05/2011:
Week ending September 3, 2011: As the markets have a
dandy run-up into the holiday period, confidence wanes on a sour
jobs report Friday and the clouds over the market seem to be
reappearing. Gold and s9ilver meantime are moving up again
- and this time it's in tandem so we think this could power a
drive to new all time highes
08/29/2011
Weekending August 27, 2011: A speech by Ben Bernanke
didn't really say much, but it goosed the market into an upside
finish to the week, We also see the velocity of money
continuing to collapse and a waaaaay overblown hurricane, if
you'll pardon the bad play on words.
08/22/2011 Week
ending August 20, 2011: Gold is soaring and markets
are growling. The CPI picks up a bit in this week's report
and we outline some expectations for the market between now and
year-end.
08/13/2011 Week
ending August 13, 2011: A major up and down week for
the Dow with much discussion of wave counts and how I'm trying
to rob from the rich and give to me (which then is spread around
toi others...) Plus the usual assortment of economic data
points and - at week's end - a major hack attack on our site, so
you know we've gotten too close to the truth...
08/07/2011 Week
ending August 6, 2011: OK, so when we said in
Tuesday's column "Back into "Crash Country", what part wasn't
clear? We explained renovatio monetae, too, and still, we
look like we may hit the skids on the downside Monday and
Tuesday of next week. Sometimes I wonder "Why bother?"
07/30/2011
Week ending July 31, 2011:
Most of the week was taken up with talk about the federal budget
ceiling, but disappearing objects in the WuJo corner were of
note, too, along with housing- flat for the month in the
Case-Shiller/S&P data.
07/25/2011 Week
ending July 23, 2011: Off on a road trip across the
great American Southwest, our observations of the port data from
places in Texas, New Meixco and Arizona: But the market
continues to rally off the 12,309 Dow level and may be headed
higher despite this week's release of damning informationi about
how the US bailed out foriegn banks in a GAO report...
but are we surprised?
07/18/2011
Week ending July 16, 2011:
new unemployment figures - stuck at 9.2% but look how gold is
moving up on $1,600 with the budget talk and Euro troubles.
then we explain how the economic system is like a big conveyor
belt - and depending on where you stand - this one is either
working great (owners) or its really hosed up (worker
perspective.)
07/11/2011
Week ending July 9, 2011: A
whole panoply of economic numbers this week, but the biggest of
the lot is the stubbornly stuck jobs number which at 9.2%
doesn't mention directly the 2+ million jobholders quietly
dropped out of statistics for the year, although the 16.2%
underemployment rate is mentioned....
07/01/2011
Week ending July 2, 2011: These
is a cure for the summertime blues down on Wall St. - a Major
rally on. That and DSK is back from being 'sexicided" and
a new webbot run is out...
06/27/201
Week ending June 25, 2011:
The markets close under Dow 12,000 (will it be for long?) while
we take a long road trip from Texas to Detroit to catch up on
column writing and talk about sights along the way - a kind of
grandiose street level economics report.
06/20/2011
Week ending June 18, 2011:
So-so inflation data is coming in, while the globval markets
hold their breath waiting for a paper-over of Greece (and the UK
and Spain and...) to appear.
06/11/2011
Week
ending June 11, 2011: We propose a global crash libretto
as the we question Monday whether 12,000 on the Dow can hold -
which as predicted, failed to hold this week. Plus more
data suggesting things are not all happy in our future peeks out
from latest data.
06/05/2011
Week ending June 4, 2011:
Main features this week were employment data refusing to improve
and an outbreak of e. coli in Europe which promises to create a
whole new level of force police once the implications sink in a
bit,
05/30/2011
Week ending May 28, 2011: Not
much in the way of stats this week, GDP is still fugly, and the
Dow drifted down, but the real story is about disaster relif up
in Joplin, Mo where my son's a volunteer EMT as bad weather
plagues people now - and crop yields later...
05/21/2011
Week ending May 21, 2011: A
weekend in bed from gout, Tennessee's overly aggressive policae
targeting of out of state vehicles causes us to bag Nashville
vacation plans, and a local forest fire teaches us something
about preparedness that's not in most 'prepper' books.
05/14/2011
Week ending May 14, 2011: Not
very impressive consumer price news - not all bad, but here we
go further into the jobless recovery. Trade numbers are
just a bigger hole and in our odds & ends, some thoughts of M.C.
Esher's fine works.
05/07/2011
Week ending May 7, 2011: New
unemployment numbers come out = and the UAS dollar gets some
legs under it ('bout time!) but that beats up gold and silver
pretty good...
05/02/2011:
Week ending April 30, 2011:
Housing prices continue to falter, the web bot project issues a
new report and we contemplate what's driving the second most
deadly tornado season in history. Did I mention housing is
still declining?
04/25/2011
Week ending April 23, 2011:
The market rally continues, but we forecast once again a $5 move
day in silver and a world of quickly changing markets as time
r54uns short for conventional investments and normal
decision-making...
04/18/2011
Week ending April 16, 2011: As
if the Producer Price Inex wasn't enough, along comes the CPI
understating (again) the cost of living by a large degree
compared with disinterested measures.
04/11/2011
Week ending April 9, 2011:
More aftershocks at Fukushima - and new Consumer Debt
numbers - which show things like education and cars improving,
but credit card sales still weak. Plus a discussion of
copyright issues...
04/04/2011
Week en ding April 2, 2011: Main
feature of this week was the better-than-expected
unemployment rate - which is fine until we report this was the
same number of people working as in July 2011. Oh, and
let's not forget those still-falling home prices. And what
we would be complete without rallying on that kind of news?
All as Japanese nuke leak on...
03/28/2011
Week ending March 26, 2011:
The problems of leaking Japanese nuclear projects persists, the
Libyan 'intervention' has all the hallmarks of turning into
another global war, and our guess is California for very
near-term large US centered earthquake.
03/19/2011
Week ending March 19, 2011: Troubles
in Japan continue to mount up, the US strikes off on another war
(without congress actually voting it) this time over (lo9ok
surprised!) Libya's oil more than her bothered citizens. And
markets drop for the week but the week's end rally was good
because of triple witching and friendly bank actions.
03/13/2011:
Week ending March 13, 2011:
Fractalist Gary Lammert calls a high this week and then...Japan
has a major earthquake and nuclear issues threaten.
03/07/2011
Week ending March 5, 2011: The
unemployment rate improves to 8.9 percent, but it's a dicey
number at best. Libya edges closer to full-on revolution
as the price of oil hits the $102-$103 level. And the
market does a bit of a mini-slide for the werek until recovering
its poise on Friday, for a small gain this week.
02/28/2011
Week ending February 26, 2011:
Libya's government (6% of US oil) refuses to step down, the
market might be making a turn again to the downside -
we'll see - and things that we think we buy but which disappear
from shopping carts...
02/21/2011
Week ending February 19, 2011:
Silver was confiscated, too, in the previous Depression!
Also: Only the most fluoride-damaged thinker could believe the CPI
report out this week - and we compare the government's CPI
allegations to the M.I.T. Billion Prices Project as well as the
Triple A Fuel Gauge Report just as an example. Oh, and
GlobalRev sweeps along...
02/14/2011
Week
ending February 12, 2011: Egypt heads for a government
turnover, and a key IMF considers a market basket to replace the
US for denomination of special drawing rights. Can you say
"End of empire?" Also, a "keeper" in our discussion of
airline business models.
02/05/2011
Week ending February 5, 2011: Everything
from an unemployment rate of 9% being reported to a strange phot
(what it a wood nymph?) Now, from these two stories, which
do you think has a chance of being objectively 'real'?
01/29/2011 Week
ending January 29, 2011: As Tunisia rolls over, looks like
Egypt is going down our predicted "GlobalRev path next.
Markets could be peaking in here, judging by a super resilient
top that isn't holding about 12,000 resistance. Mass
layoffs level off at decent levels, but is there inflation in
the pipeline?
01/22/2011
Week ending January 22, 2011: Not
too much in the way of surprises this week. The broad
market was down, but the 'tape painters' kept the Dow going up.
China's president Hu visits Washington, and some disturbing
facts about earth changes are starting to line up...
01/15/2011:
Week ending January 15. 2011:
Not in the mainstream yet - might take a few days - but the
price of food could really move up based on the flooding in
Australia and Brazil as the impacts ripple around the world.
Still inflation was up only modest in Friday's new VPI
report...give it time...
01/08/2011
Week ending January 8, 2011: We
consider the newest unemployment data, which was better - IF you
believe the workforce dropped. Then we had conflicting
economic indicators, a satellite track seems to cover a lot of
earthquake territory, and the market looks toppy - again!
01/01/2011
Week ending January 1, 2011: The
year wraps up with a market 'on hold' awaiting developments in
the new year, earthquakes are acting up a bit this week, and the
latest Case-Shiller/S&P Housing report begins - ot my eye - to
suggest that the recovery may stall and a second-downturn in
housing arrive in 2011.
2010 Reports
12/25/2010
Week ending December 25, 2010: A
couple of new economic numbers, a big earthquake new Japan and
one shortly after down south of the equator, but in our lead-in
to Christmas, the most fun was the part where we explored HHO
generators for cars and ask "So, do they work?"
12/20/2010
Week ending December 18, 2010:
New cost of living figures tell us what we've been planning for
is about right - no inflation, no major deflation, just a Fed
trying to step on the printing 'gas' about midway between.
Troubles continue for Europe, and the winter is colder than hell
(duh!) in EU lands.
12/11/2010:
Week ending December 11, 2010: New
evidence shows check-writing went down an amazing 31 percent in
just three years, the Balance of Trade declines, and we consider
the possibility of a 'crash-free" depression.
12/04/2010
Week ending December 4, 2010:
The Unemployment Rate rises to 9.8% from a previous 9.6% rate,
yet despite this, the market has one of its best weeks in
months. Due to the month beginning, or something else?
11/27/2010
Week ending November 27, 2010:
A Red Friday wind up to a week already highlighted with Irish
bailout jitters and a lackluster Christmas season in view.
Korea does some shelling, which lauches rumors of war and the
TSA debate widens.
11/20/2010
Week ending November 20, 2010:
After getting off to a slow start, the TSA protests grow as part
of the 'tipping point' and economic indicators such as CPI look
non-threatening, except for the little problem of a no-growth
mode spells growth for a lot of growth-dependent businesses...
11/13/2010
Week ending November 13, 2010:
Things don't look good for the G20 to come up with magickal
solutions to the world's problems, the Dow drops for the week
and we await our 'tipping point's incept".
11/06/2010
Week ending November 6, 2010:
Lemme see: Elections, Fed decision, a unemployment rate
report that just doesn't make sense - and if that's not enough,
the date of our tipping point moves to the 14th...
11/01/2010
Week ending October 30, 2010: The
sun's 87-day cycle shows up with a major (7.7) quake in the
south Pacific this week, there's only one week until elections,
and the efforts to hold the market up going into elections has
been nothing short of amazing. North and South Korea trade
pot-shots across the border in advance of the G20...
10/25/2010
Week ending October 23, 2010:
Our tkrip 'out west' ends up with some surprisingly difficult
obser4vations about the economy...
10/16/2010 Week
ending October 16, 2010: Not archived due to travel.
10/.09/2010
Week ending October 9, 2010:
A pollution outburst from a dam in Hungary sets off a major
linguistic timer to '$5 silver - but which way? The jobs
report holds steady while the economy loses 95-thousand jobs for
the month, and despite all this, the market sails along to a
close of 11,006 and change...
10/02/2010
Week ending October 2, 2010: The
GDP is fizzling out, the market may have just finished putting
in a new high and Hillary welcomes an old war monger back to the
State Dept.
09/27/2010
Week ending September 26, 2010: The
numbers from Washington seem to be good reason for sane
people to look and pause, but does the market? Hell
no...what an odd weak - and is this what blow-off tops are like
or is that coming this next week?
09/20/2010
Week ending September 18, 2010:
Market's are meandering around what could be highs going into
the fall, consumer prices are up slightly Year-on-Year, and we
are bothered by reports that the government will try to regulate
gold sellers...
09/13/2010
Week ending September 11, 2010: A
new economic advisor comes to the White House, Koran burning
fails to take hold, and economic data continues to suggest The
Grand Muddle...
09/04/2010
Week ending September 4, 2010:
The markets have a rousing rally going into the Labor Day
weekend, despite being in a vulnerable position, but
unemployment hangs stubbornly at 9.6% and housing indicators are
either improved vis-à-vis 2009 figures, or worse if you've got a
longer memory.
08/30/2010
Week ending August 28, 2010:
The Drug Revolution begins in Mexico, the US market continues
sliding, completing a five wave (1) down movement and Elaine
hears a mysterious hum - as multiple readers report the same
thing...
08/23/2010
Week ending August 21, 2010:
The fascination between money-seeking and future-telling defined
a bit, a couple of 'normal' (whatever that is) ewconomic reports
and what something was the best column of the week: The
"Let's Pretend'" mode the country seems to be in lately...
08/14/2010
Week ending August 14, 2010:
Biggie this week was the the consumer price index numbers and
the fact the markets resumed their trending downward. Also
at the WuJo there was a lot of discussion about people having
problems making measures - almost like reality got a little
plastic/elastic at times lately. Passing phenomena?
08/08/06/2010:
Week ending August 7, 2010:
The
unemployment report was unchanged - provided you don't notice
the prior month corrections and 131,000 jobs lost - then we
had the US training foreign IT workers to compete with our
home-grown ones...and then things went downhill from there...
07/31/2010
Week ending July 31, 2010: We
go on a quake watch due to linguistics, a rally by the market
continues, but looks a little long in the tooth - so George
loads up on shorts,. and immigration back-and-forthing in
Arizona...
07/24/2010
Week
ending July 24, 2010: On the Road: So far, haven't
missed a report as we treavel to the PNW on a mix of business
and pleasure: Markets doing another up week, but whether
we bust through 10,650 and head higher is questionable.
Jitters on Bernanke highlight the week, Euro banks pass stress
tests except 7, and another one of the weird "George Dreams"
shows up.
07/17/2010
Week ending July 17, 2010:
markets put on a rousing start to option expiration week, but by
the end of the day Friday, the Dow had given up its gains and
then some. Deflation in the CPI might have had something
to do with it - or the financial regulation bill, although teeth
from that are a long way out. Could it be the temporary
plug on the Gulf was bad news for the PTB?
07/12/2010 Week
ending July 10, 2010: The Fed Consumer Debt Data says we
are not out of the woods, a curious UFO case with lots of lights
in China, and there were a couple of obvious "No Crash days" in
the market to be savored while we could...
07/04/2010
Week ending July 4, 2010: Building
tensions all over the pladce! Looks like Israel is
pre-positioning for an attack on Iran, oil projections off the
Gulf Spill now have East Coast oils inside 90 days, and the
economy continue to erode/corrode with 125-thousand jobs lost in
the latest reporting month. A happily Holiday Fourth?
not in Mr. Grumpy's book...
06/26/2010
Week ending June 26, 2010: G-20
comes up this weekend, the oil continues flowing like crazy with
a hurricane eyed, and George explains his mixed feelings on
gold.
06/21/2010
Week ending June 19, 2010:
Some brain changing thoughts on economics, quadruple witching
Friday may mark a significant long-term market high, and BP oil
flow estimates keep rising as hopes dim for a quick end of the
mess.
06/12/2010
Week ending June 12, 2010: Several
economic indicators are out this week, but not too much good.
Retail was unexpectedly soft, confidence was OK, BOT was up, and
the oil juist keeps on flowing..
06/05/2010
Week ending June 5, 2010: Oil
continues to gush from the BP disaster/blue flue/ocean murder.
A slightly improved jobs report comes along, but I argue jobs
reports no longer matter as larger forces are at work in this
economy.
05/31/2010
Week ending May 29, 2010: We
ponder the latest SOTTC report from
www.halfpasthuman.com,
which includes a pessimistic view of the 'top kill' working to
stop the blue flue/ocean murder in the Caribbean, and both the
EU and US markets seem to take a pre-holiday pause before what
looks like a decisive next few weeks...
05/24/2010
Week ending May 22, 2010:
Options week brings a little relief to the markets and the pits.
Lies about the size of the BP/Gulf Oil Murder spill being bigger
than admitted catch up to the public and the market drops more
than 400 points for the week - not unexpected, we reckon...but
it could have been a lot worse
05/17/2010
Week Ending M ay 14, 2010:
Once again a contradiction in the numbers between reported
production numbers (way up on a YoY basis) and capacity
utilization (down) which leads us to ask many things. Dog
(of) poets shows up in Greece, time distortions growing and just
for giggles some retail and trade numbers to obfuscate things...
05/10/2010
Week ending May 8, 2010: This
week will be remembered for the Dow dropping 1,000 points down
to 9,787 to everyone's shock and no, there are no big buyers
even at those levels. While people talk accident, we'll be
asking if this is the start of primary wave l3 down..
Unemployment up, more troubles in Greece and which PIIG goes
next?
05/01/2010 Week
ending May 1, 2010: "Irwin Allen's Dream abou5t an oil
accident/murder of last week turns into a full up pollution
nightmare for the US this week. A small Jewish studies
group releases a retranslation of the 10 Commandments.
Turns out there are 11. And despite tyhese developments,
our main focus remains on money where a turn in the Markets
seems at hand as the Big LaBounsky seems to be over.
04/26/2010 Week
ending April 24, 2010: The National Sales Tax (VAT) is
trial ballooned (again), The "Alien Wars" meme takes form with
an oddish NASA 'secret; space launch and in "Irwin Allen's
Dreams, some questions about what dreams might mean.
04/17/2010 Week
ending April 17, 2010: The SEC takes on Goldman Sachs, and
the FCC loses a round in court to opponents of net neutrality.
We set out some price targets, but there's a chance this week
saw the highs before a big decline starts, but that's always the
case, eh?
04/10/2010 Week
ending April 10, 2010: Jittery week for the markets, a
prequel quake series rumbles around SoCal, and as the week wore
on markets started to flirt with the 11,00 level
04/05/2010 Week
ending April 2, 2010: Unemployment figures from ADP based on
payhroll data aren't anywhere near the huge increase in jobs
claimed by BLS, George hgas a weird dream about a coming quake
"Wednesday, Los Angeles) and we notice the arrival of a major
meme "revolution/rebellion" is really taking hold in headlines
now.
03/26/2010 Week
ending March 27, 2010: More p0roblems as slow-witted
George tries to figuire oiut how GDP can go up with more people
unemployed, the Israelis seem committed to expanding settlements
in the face of opposition and in the WuJo, people report more
time/event distortion.
03/20/2010 Week
ending March 20, 2010: China sets up to take over
world reserve currency status with the Yuan, while congress sets
up to pass a national healthcare plan. Down at the WuJo
some odd reports of time distortion and more & more the economy
is going two-tracks: Haves and Have-Nots
03/13/2010 Week
ending March 13, 2010: A new "Shape of Things To Come"
report is out, balance of trade is smaller, but in a world of
consumption collapse, that's not surprising now, is it?
And then the usual: governments running out of money and the
chemtrail debate.
03/06/2010 Week
ending March 6, 2010: The employment report comes in
abetter than some expected, we peruse shortwave radios, and the
amount of energy popping off in quakes this year is
astounding...
02/27/2010 Week
ending February 27, 2010: Not a month after our
prediction of multiple 8.0 ('great quakes') Chile gets one much
earlier than our forecast of 'after July 7/8th'. markets
about flatlined for the week but everyone is watching Greece to
see if classic economic reality sets in. Oh - and
healthcare goes Lazarus.
02/19/2010 Week
ending February 19, 2010: America has its first
home-grown suicide bomber as the 'revolution meme' takes hold,
markets predictably rally for options expiration week, yet in
the large scheme of things, the prospects of the jobs picture
improving any time soon and fading...
02/12/2010 Week
ending February 12, 2010: While Greece slides toward
the abyss, and banksters hold secret meetings in the Arctic and
Australia (go figure) we wonder if the linguistics about swine
flu variants around Olympics time might have been a heads up
about the PIIGS countries of Europe coming down with financial
pandemic. In addition, some thoughts on exploitation of
intergenerational differences...
02/05/2010 Week
ending February 5, 2010: Labor numbers come out about
as exzpected - with more than 800,000 jobs being 'disappeared'
in the annual corrections festival, suicide bombers now come in
the female variety, at the WuJo we talk about orbs and afterlife
and the market's decline looks more ominous than ever.
01/29/2010 Week
ending January 30, 2010: Talk of a second dip now
comes from Davos, the Fed passes on rate changes, rumors of an
ancient civilization leaving artifacts and we try a podcasting
experiment...
01/25/20-10 Week
ending January 22, 2010: Markets take a little break
from their rally mode, there's a bothersome gap in linguistic
data out in the Octobver 2011 area, and we ponder whether the
markets are about to 'turn over' and head down after rallying
since March.
01/18/2010 Week
ending January 15, 2010: Haiti quake is a mess -
linguistics say six month 'great' quakes will be along this year
so more shaking to come. Inflation by the CPI runs about
5.4% annualized plus the trade gap widens, port data disappoints
and George wades into a few financial stocks on the short side.
1/11/2010 Week
ending January 8, 2010: A couple of key long-time big
spenders and favorites of special interests announce they are
leaving congress, the cold weather has us wondering about
whether the movie "Day After Tomorrow" is showing up for real,
and the Dow continues bumping along marginal new highs.
1/4/2010 Week
ending January 1, 2009: Iran clamps down after
civilian demonstrations, news directors complain about checkbook
journalism and the unemployment figures drop as the Santa Rally
seems to end.
2009 Reports
12/28/2009 Week
ending December 26, 2009: The healthcare deal is done
- so is it the 'new' depression's version of the CCC or WPA?
Then there's the jump again in personal income that has regular
folks scratching their heads. And you can't keep a good
pope down after a papal knock-down.
12/21/2009 Week
ending January 19, 2009: Besides the CPI going up when
retirements and SS isn't aside, the week had its good and bad:
The jam down of healthcare on the downside, but on the upside,
the arrival of a pyramid-shaped UFO over Russia...but "It's all
good: We got 'survival beers'...
12/14/2009 Week
ending December 12, 2009: Plans for a "Stability
Police Force" come out in a Rand report, the mess on Wall Street
continues to defy gravity, and Climategate just keeps getting
more and more interesting. Budget deficit headed for
raising, too since spending money is sooo much fun...
12/07/2009 Week
ending December 5, 2009: The unemployment picture
improves by 2-10th's of one percent and with a big treasury
auction in the wings, the price of gold drops $50 from new
all-time highs by week's end.
11/30/2009 Week
ending November 28, 2009: Likely the biggest story
this week was Climategate - wherein 60 MB opf zip file ratted
out climate-change academics as junk science manipulators of
this and that. Big holiday rally, but a bigger pre-holiday
decline for markets such that the Dow lost 9 points for the week
- spoilt by Dubai's problems.
11/23/2009 Week
ending November 20, 2009: G\eorge & Elaine do 2012 -
the movie, retail sales seem flat to down when you back out
prices to unit volumes, and there's the matter of gold pressing
up through 1135 for the week...
11/16,2009 Week
ending November 14, 2009: Trade Gap is back, problems
ahead for the internet under the guise of copyright enforcement,
and the G20 looks to be engaged in global synchronized inflation
which probably means much higher precious metals prices to come.
Look surprised, wouldja?
11/9/2009
Week ending November 7, 2009: The stock market bounces
off a major support line, gold moves toward 1,100 an ounce and
unemployment passes the 10% mark a little too easily.
11/2/2009
Week ending October 31. 2009: In the wake of the Oct
25/26 linguistics turn date th4e issue is whether swine flu or
collapsing markets will be the main feature of the coming weeks.
Plus 9 banks with 153 branches get reorganized and it was the
80th anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash.
10/26/2009 Week
ending October 24, 2009: A couple of good moves for
the economy, mass layoffs down and a few other less than
end-of-world numbers as we await our 'emotional turn period'
next week. 7 banks reorg and International Paper shuts
down plants...
10/19/2009 Week
ending October 17, 2009: Gold is still setting new
highs, action around the Pacific Rim as earthquakes go popping
off, and CPI comes in tame which is a good thing, but it's a bad
thing. A good thing and a....
10/12/2009 Week
ending October 10, 2009: BHO gets the Nobel Prize for
reasons that are, well, sketchy is one word that comes to mind.
Then there's gold, which shows continuing strength along with a
Dow that's higher than a crack head on a payday Friday night with
a full moon...
10/05/2009 Week
ending October 3, 2009: The predictive linguistics
shade toward an economic as opposed to military 'event' around
October 25th, the upward trend channel in stock prices looks
'iffy' and unemployment for the month is just under 10% - but
only if you don't count people who have no more benefits and so
on...
09/26/2009 Week
ending September 26, 2009: What an eminently
forgettable week! Fed does nothing, the New World Order
takes more moves forward at the G-20 summit, but for the most
part, the top looks to be in and now we just wait for things to
come crashing down...
09/21/2009 Week
ending September 19, 2009: Bespoke fear language is
making its appearance amongst the PowersThatBe, the Market
continues to resist gravity (Or, is that common sense?), and
Gold pops over the $1,000 level. But can it stay there for
long?
09/14/2009 Week
ending September 12, 2009: Another batch of banks
close down, the usual slew of numbers as the market looks to put
in a top before the fall of the fall. Good news: Gold tops
$1,000 for a while.
0907/2009
Week ending September 5, 2009: Predictive linguistics
forecast a major quake this week (sure enough, it happened), a
possibility of terrorism on the 78-9th (pending) and a major
hurricane Sept. 13-`15 (we'll see about this one).
meantime, the market drops and amazingly optimistic talk
continues from the paper pimps down on Wall Street who don't
realize the days of paper are burning out quickly.
08/31/2009 Week
ending July 29, 2009: Gov't makes plans to seize the
Internet - just in case - while S-curves which projected the
possibility of soaring bank reorganizations are getting filled.
Then there's the latest batch of stats...
08/24/2009 Week
ending August 22, 2009: Visibility arrives as the
financial crisis takes out now 3,610 branches of banks since the
IndyMac failure in July of last year, oh, and the Obama
administration is digging another $2-trillion deeper as the
Federal Deficit mounts almost uncontrollably.
08/17/2009 Week
ending August 15, 2009: Summer of Hell is building, as
town hall meetings get interrupted and canceled by members of
congress, the 6th largest bank failure in US history is recorded
and we can begin to thumb our noses at those skeptical of the
'second depression' - not that we wanted to be right, or
anything, but still...
08/10/2009 Week
ending August 8, 2009: Another web bot hit as we get
our 'temporal marker' on August 3/4 with a Baja quake that
fulfills expected duality language. Then we have this
week's 9.4% un employment numbers, bolstered by the
disappearance of people from the workforce...
08/03/2009 Week
ending August 1, 2009: National Guard is advertising
for people staff internment camps - we point to their ads, a
professional leisure class is proposed as an economic
alternative, and the Hutchinson Effect may hold some new
insights into how reality is constructed...
07/27/2009 Week
ending July 25, 2009: New web bot run is released and
no, no reason to party based on what it expects. The
market continues to rally though, which gives me hope that some
targets I lay out for the rally (and subsequent decline) will
let me load up on the short side in time.
07/20/2009 Week
ending July 18, 2009: Bank office closings since
IndyMac pass the 3000-mark, West Coast Port declines approach
30% compared with two year ago levels, and the Treasury is
soliciting for a humor in the workplace contractor. Yup,
no approaching this week straight or sober...why bother?
07/13/2009 Week
ending July 13, 2009: Goldman Sachs has a little issue
with a computer programmer and mysterious trading code which
could reportedly be used to 'move markets'. Trade gap
shrinks and globalism withers, and GD2 (Global Depression 2)
makes it into UrbanDictionary.com. Odd that I should be
writing about GD2 since prior to 1997 and now it's going de
voux..but better late than.....oh, you know!
07/06/2009 Week
ending July 4, 2009: We consider the implications of
seven banks (30 offices) closing this week as the Dow eroded a
bit and the Holiday bounce effect didn't exactly overwhelm us
this year.
06/29/2008 Week
ending June 27, 2009: The PTB score another success
with a 'honey pot' for a right-thinking challenger of the
paradigm, the Disposal Personal Income report figures to be on
our 'Best Fiction List' and mass Layoffs are close to nonlinear
nowadays.
06/22/2009 Week
ending June 20, 2009: I bemoan why it is that bailouts
are necessary when the AT&T breakup was such a fine prototype of
how to handle businesses that were 'too big to fail' - just make
'em smaller! A new predictive linguistics report is out
from the rickety time machine folks and the week's assortment of
numbers including PPI and such...
06/15/2009 Week
ending June 13, 2009: We still are finding out about
that huge AF 447 disappearance with 50 bodies recovered by
week's end, and the economy continues to rally, but for how
long? Plus the 'global coastal event' comes into focus as
a senate hearing is held using a lot of words from the
predictive linguistics...
06/08/2009 Week
ending June 6, 2009: An Air France plane disappears
off the coast of Brazil, thus confirming our temporal position
so the derivatives meltdown follows within two months and George
throws a dart for a recession/depression low in 2013...
06/01/2009 Week
ending May 30, 2009: The first of what will turn into
a string of major earthquakes pops off in Guatemala (7.1) as the
'dancing mountains get down to boogie-time, while GM waltzes
toward bankruptcy and gold/silver break down to the upside.
05/23/2009 Week
ending May 23, 2009: Above every other story this week
the one to watch is the possibility of the US dollar being
derated - losing its de facto position as the world's reserve
currency. This will likely be THE financial story at the
root of all others to follow over the balance of the year like
the market collapse I expect this fall. Here's the root...
05/16/2009 Week
ending May 16, 2009: The markets pull back a bit,
perhaps a prequel to a drop below 8,000 (?) and we explore a
report of people hearing "voices" - what's this all about?
05/09/2009 Week
ending May 9, 2009: Banks need another $75
billion, the unemployment rate is up to 8.9% amidst rumors that
14% could be in the cards this year but no worries, Zeus the cat
fills in with a Saturday column - immune to swine flu like the
rest of us aren't.
05/02/2009 Week
ending May 2, 2009: The Flu ramps up and we go through
lots of discussions of the 'what if's' and from there things
like notes on putting in your own solar power plant and more...
04/25/2009 Week
ending April 25, 2009: Pandemic Flu arrives, bank
closures now running at about 1.8 per week and 2008's total has
been exceeded, and mass layoffs run to the higher of our two
trend lines...
04/18, 2009
Week ending April 18, 2009: The Obama administration
warms to Cuba, Texas talks tough on independence and state's
rights, while I go looking for economic and vision leadership
for America....er...what's that?
04/11/2009
Week ending January 11, 2009: Chemtrails
go mainstream as a radical pollution injection scheme is aired,
I discuss a topology of belief sets, and slowly, I enter the
long side of silver as I expect inflation later this year.
04/04/2009 Week
ending April 4, 2009: Government kicks out GN's CEO,
we talk about tent cities, crop circles, and all kinds of other
things - as usual. Tax time coming shortly and time to
garden...
03/28/2009 Week
ending March 28, 2009: The markets put on a screaming
rally this week, while we talk about how deep packet
inspection/self profiling of personal social networks is about
the 'tell all' about what you think and who you assoicate
with...
03/21/2009 Week
ending March 21, 2009: The market could be setting up
for a good-sized spring-into-summer rally now, two US ships
collide in the Strait of Hormuz which may presage the Obama
Test, and the G20 is setting up to talk about a non-dollar
reserve currency at next month's meeting.
03/14/2009 Week
ending March 14, 2009: The Bond Dude says if we really
need inflation to overpower deflation, why not declare a 10%
wage hike for everyone? And the market rallies a bit.
So is the bottom in?
03/07/2009 Week
ending March 7, 2009: Our headline on Monday of this
week (bye-bye 7,000 and other perils) unfortunately nailed the
flavor of this one to a tee...
02/28/2009 Week
ending February 28, 2009: While we wait for the next
leg down in the markets to begin, a few thoughts about other
matters: the relationship between orgone and weather control,
the way aliens would look at how humans work -- you know, the
important stuff!
02/21/2009 Week
ending February 21, 2009: Markets continue to tank
with the Dow taking out the November (08) lows on the Dow, but
the S&P holds on. Cost of living is about even, but only
because of collapsing energy prices which few seem to worry
about. And George turns 60...
02/14/2009 Week
ending February 14 - Valentines Day, 2009: Love in the
air for this week? Pashaw...not hardly. Market
dropped a bunch and the G-7 is off solving the wrong things.
But fear not! Our RV cartoon from Rebecca Price this week
is uplifting...
02/07/2009 Week
ending February 7, 2009: Compound interest eats
world (cartoon), markets teetering on brink of further declines,
George gets flu, and Drug Lab Economics are explained.
01/31/2009 Week
ending January 31, 2009: Market sets up to tank,
Geithner gets onboard and troulbe looms for the Golden State
1/26/2009
Week ending January 24, 2009: Gold starts to rebound,
but the 'global revolution' meme picks up strength to, along
with more layoffs and the usual trading noise by those who don't
see what's coming later in the year. What is that 'ship
grounding' stuff in the linguistics about?
01/19/2009 Week
ending January 17, 2009: We consider the "Patriot's
Paradox" (by avoiding the crash do we cause it?) and look at the
continuing decline in the markets as producer prices fall, but
only energy keeps the lid on inflation in the CPI if you look
closely....
01/10/2009 Week
ending January 10, 2009: After a good first couple of
days, the Dow ends the week down, unemployment jumps to 7.2% and
what's this about a 'problematic 2012"?
01/03/2009 Week
ending January 3, 2009: We lay out the annual forecast
for Ian Punnett of CoastToCoastAM, decry plans for a gas tax
hike, and tell the story of "The Ice Worm Cocktail..." So
starts another year, huh?
2008 Reports
12/27/2008 Week
ending December 27, 2008: Shooting breaks out in Gaza,
India and Pakistan eye one another, Dow looks to finish out the
year around the 8,500 level down almost 40% for the year and
George writes a Dear Santa letter.
12/20.2008 Week
ending December 20, 2008: The Bernie Madoff case
reveals a $50-billion (and growing) Ponzi scheme allegation, the
sales and unemployment figures continue to crater and so what
does the market do? Quick! Look surprised...
12/13/2008 Week
ending December 13, 2008: Economy continues to erode,
container shipments dropping. Our Earthquake Prediction
for Dec 12-15 looks doubtful, and a $50-billion scandal rocks
Wall St.
12/06/2008 Week
ending December 6, 2008: Property tax bills go missing
some places, foreclosures are up, unemployment hits 6.7% and it
looks like the financial mess will get much worse. So,
what does the market do? Rally, LOL...
11/30/2008 Week
ending November 29, 2008: The Turkey Day Rally pattern
is going strong this year, but after the turkey, the leftovers
of bad economic policy remain...
11/23/2008 Week
ending November 22, 2008: While the Obama
administration is being filled with 'same old' Clinton-era
leadership, the market drops another 3% and then some. At
some point, all the money being printed just has to come back as
inflation - gold may be climbing...
11/15/2008 Week
ending November 15, 2008: Another report damning GM
corn products, I make a pretty good midsession Wednesday
reversal call, and as the economy sinks, people are getting out
of boat payments by scuttling them some places.
11/08/2008 Week
ending November 8, 2008: The country selects a new
President, and George plots out a way to (hopefully) make some
serious money in the next pump and dump in the markets.
11/01/2008 Week
ending November 1, 2008: Despite the market rally
this week, Robin Landry figures (as do I) that the market seems
likely to go on to new lows over the coming couple of months.
Could be wrong but...
10/25/2008 Week
ending October 25, 2008: m Markets continue to grind on down
despite the interventionist moves from the Fed and Treasury.
Who said "Told you so!"??
10/18/2008 Week
ending October 18, 2008: Although we saw a brief
record-setting bounce this week, the outlook for the markets
remains guarded. Saturday, we got into the collapse of
shipping kfrom Asia to the US West Coast and what that could
mean. Also ahead: Problems for expatriate Americans
overseas when the Dollar slides...
10/11/2008 Week
ending October 11, 2008: Our long predicted 'crash'
shows up as the Dow losses a lot of ground and still the bailout
hasn't addressed the core issues of Main Street America -
'rescuing' bankers, not humans in general. Election year,
maybe?
10/04/2008 Week
ending October 4, 2008: "Is America on Final Approach
to economic disaster?" That's the theme the week before
the predictive linguistics predict a huge shift in language into
emotional release around October 7th.
09/27/2008 Week
ending September 27, 2008: The Treasury Secretary
declares an emergency and begs for $700 billion to bail out not
home owners, but bankers...
09/20/2008 Week
ending September 20, 2008: Our period of 'summer
ebullience' has come to an end with a very ugly market drop,
imposition of the financial equivalent of martial law and a
setup for the financial system to "take down" the lifetime
savings of average Americans.
09/14/2009
Week ending September 13, 2009: besides
throwing a few darts at our 'hot date' of October 7, we catch a
few other things, including the prequel to Hurricane Ike, and
some mighty odd behavior in the markets...
09/07/2008 Week
ending September 7, 2009: Turns out Wal-Mart price
announcements (+2.8% YoY, Same Store) are not corrected for
inflation, which leaves us asking "Where's the growth?" and
pressures mount on USA oil policies as the Georgia situation
simmers amidst Iran War rumors.
08/31/2008 Week
ending August 30, 2008: Things look like they are
about to get extremely hot with Russia. The presidential
politicking goes on and we inspect things 38 days before our
October 7th 'hot date'
08/23/2008 Week
ending August 23, 2008: Georgia continues being the
West's latest way to pimp war with oil and gas routes at stake
and yeah, if you own a fancy tracking stock and think it will
convert to physical gold or silver, you might want to go read
the prospectus more closely.
08/16/2008 Week
ending August 16, 2008: The highest this week, besides
a 'prequel war lite' in South Ossetia to the fireworks coming
this fall, was a friend who has written a book about the
mortgage mess who has allowed me to share parts of the concept
called "The Great De-Levering" a must own concept for coping
with what's just ahead...
08/08/2008 Week
ending August 9, 2008: We start a quest for a new word
to describe the current economic chaos, which seems likely to
build. Plus, more indications of big trouble ahead for the
economy this fall.
08/01/2008 Week
ending August 2, 2008: Big brother can now seize your
laptop at the US border, markets are on hold for a summer pause
before the fall decline we expect, and unemployment is going
which way? Up, of course...
07/26/2008:
Week ending July 26, 2008: Foreclosures are up, the
Durables flat except for military spending, and on top of all
this, an Apollo Astronaut says UFO's are real and they've been
watching us...
\07/19/2008 Week
ending July 19, 2008: Where it's explained how housing
prices have to fall nearly 50% in order to return to historical
norms, which means 2-more years of pain ahead, and how the MSM
soft-pedals inflation now running at 14% annualized.
07/12/2008 Week
ending July 12, 2008: IndyMac Fails - only to be
rescued next week, the metals are bouncing, and is this the base
from which the next summer rally begins? Time will tell...
07/05/2008 Week
ending July 5, 2008: The "Strong Dollar" mystery,
where'd that preholiday rally go? And, George does a little self
hair cutting to get ready for what's ahead....
06/28/2008 Week
ending June 28, 2008: The markets take another tumble
this week and take out a 34-year trendline on the Dow.
Jusat a few more points and the S&P will take out its trend and
the Bear Market will officially be here...
06/21/2008: Week
ending June 21, 2008: Markets take a 464 point header
this week - is this the lead-in to the larger decline ahead?
And George suffers a 'missing time' event...tres strange...
06/14/2008:
Week ending June 7, 2008: Cost of living is up at a
10% annual rate - unadjusted. Tweak it with adjustments
and look only at the "core" and where are we? Less than 2%
- which is why they say the things they do about
statisticians...Web bot project: More rains/flooding/hunger on
the way...
06/07/2008 Week
ending June 7, 2008: Unemployment takes a surprising
(to everyone except us) increase to 5.5% and the Dow responds
with a late week 400-point drop - the 8th worse in history.
In a self-assessment, we present a way to analyze your
portfolio, albeit tongue in cheek...
05/31/2008 Week
ending May 31, 2008: The world continues
'brinking' financially speaking, while the net seems to focus
this holiday week more on conspiracy theories involved HAARP and
the China earthquake - wondering if the US will be subject to
retribution...
05/24/2008 Week
ending May 24, 2008: The tolls from the quake and
cyclone battle at "71,000" and we call for a dollar crash week,
which sure enough turned up with a 1.7% currency move for the
week. Not bad...
05/19/2008 Week
ending May 17, 2008: We come up with a spectacular
'hit' for the predictive linguistics project with a killer quake
in China on top of the "tem winds" meme. Dollar setys up
for a crash, but not to worry - inflation is reported tame.
Sez who?
05/12/2008 Week
ending May 10, 2008: We forecast a big quake around
the Jenna Bush Wedding (got a 7.8 in China, but timing sucks, we
were off by about 32 hours). Tornados ('them winds')
ripped the South, and economic numbers looked poor as AIG and
Citi are both off raising more cash...
05/05/2008 Week
ending May 3, 2008: Not much movement in the economic
numbers, the food shortage meme grows and we get a new air
conditioning system for the ranch.
04/28/2008 Week
ending April 26. 2008: Usual economic droning on and
on but the big story is about limits on some kinds of food being
sold. Is encounters with scarcity showing up?
04/21/2008
Week ending April 19, 2008: Food prices continue to
rise in the face of claims of deflation, a mini-tornado hits the
lower part of the ranch, and silver & gold rebound briefly.
G-7 meets
04/14/2008
Week ending April 12, 2008:
GE causes a market stumbles, trade sucks and we get a letter
from the 'front' in the socioeconomic "revolution" now ge6tting
underway in the US due to $$$ issues.
04/072008
Weekending April 5, 20098: Unemployment takes a major
increase, and we wonder if the Fed's pouring of money into the
market's isn't like putting rocket fuel on a fire...
04/01/2008 Week
ending March 29, 2008: Monday, the Fed will make a
move to expand its powers beyond banking into regulation of
securities and perhaps more. Is this the "revolution/rebellion"
foreseen linguistically?
03/22/2008 Week
ending March 22, 2008: The war in Iraq drags into it's
sixth year as the death toll passes 4,000 but not to worry, the
Fed is going to save us with yet more rate cuts!
03/17/2008 Week
ending March 15, 2008: markets continue to deteriorate
and a banking crisis looms, and all the while the winds meme
builds as do others. CPI oddly tame. Admiral Fallon
bounced.
03/10/20-08 Week
ending March 8, 2008: Cracks appear in the Dow...jobs
numbers slide, and home equity drops below 50% for the first
time since 1945...
03/03/2008 Week
ending March 1, 2008: A strange ricin case out of Las
Vegas, Israel prepares for a 'holocaust' against Palestinians,
and the markets drift lower with production slowing amidst
recession denial.
02/25/2008 Week
ending February 23, 2008: A satellite shoot-down and
the presidential wannabes continue their antics.
02/16/2008
Week ending February 16, 2008: The
linguistics teams finds deliberately planted 'memes on the
internet, calls it 'memeering' , the markets are in neutral, and
while we await the Middle East blow up, plans to shoot down a
spy satellite sound slightly fishy...
02/10/2008 Week
ending February 9, 2008: Since where is a tax credit
in advance equal to a rebate? A couple of would-be leaders
drop out of 'the runs' and oh yeah, a war in the Middle East
draws nigh...
02/02/2008
Week ending February 2, 2008: The market comes back to
12,743 resistance. Now can it break through? And
bankers get another 50-basis point gift from the Fed that keeps
on giving...
01/26/2008
Week
ending January 26, 2008: Quick! Look surprised!
Fed gives ouit free money - or drops rates by 75-basis points in
a so-called 'surprise' move...Market gains whopping 108 points
for the week... A French bank uncovers fraud.
01/19/2008 Week
ending January 21, 2008: US equities sink, the
inflation pick may leave the Fed less room to maneuver, and the
coming week doesn't look too healthy, either...
01/12/2008 Week
ending January 12, 2008: The market continues its
rocky start to the year, the future doesn't look too good for it
either, and the bankers give unto themselves, not their usury
victims...
01/06/2008
Week ending
January 6, 2008: The stock market has its worst
opening week for many years and we give away a free sample of
our subscription report from Peoplenomics.com
2007 Reports
12/29/2007
Week
ending December 29, 2007: A Santa Rally fails to break
the markets out of their doldrums as we wait for the next wave
of financial news to come rippling through. And where are
the bank runs? With 4.83 billion a day being borrowed by
major banks in the latest reporting week, the answer should be
obvious: On hold; but for how long?
12/22/2007 Week
ending December 22, 2007: Not quite Merry, we
get a little Santa Rallky action, but our Bah, Humbug attitude
continues as Christmas sales continue light, but the happy-talk
is neverending. Good times are just ahead, indeed...
12/15/2007
Week
ending December 15, 2007: Stubbornly, inflation comes
roaring back, a bad thing that causes the Fed ability to move
interest rates down is now constrained.
12/08/2007 Week
ending December 8, 2007: New employment figures claim
increasing construction jobs (we LOL), while GATA files an FOI
request for gold swap data
12/01/2007
Week ending December 2, 2007: Fed wins first encounter
with danger zone from the all time high, but will their luck
hold?
11/24/2007 Week
ending November 24, 2007: Happy retail numbers: but
isn't it a little premature folks? Scott McClellan's ne
books pushes 'secrets revealed' and more
11/17/2007 Week
ending November 17, 2007: Citi Bank lowers wire transfer
limits, UK tries for more travel snooping, and the dollar
decline continues with stocks in denial.
11/10/2007 Week
ending November 10, 2007: We begin to see just how bad
the foreclosure problem could get, based on pricing in the
market right now
11/03/2007 Week
ending November 3, 2007: We slap finance writers
around for failing to note $850 gold in 1980 is more like $2,100
gold today, so let's use the word inflation in reporting the
price. And the market calms down after threatening another
upside breakout. Oil nears $100 as the Fed drops a quarter
10/27/2007
Weekending October 27, 2007: Gold, the Dow, and George
all took off this week: Gold nears $800, the Dow gets a good
bounce and George reports enroute Seattle
10/20/2007 Week
ending October 20, 2007: Another fairytale report on
CPI - and despite a 368-point drop on Friday, George maintains
he is a bull - for a short while longer
10/13/2007 Week
ending October 13, 2007: A top general questions the
direction of Iraq, and the foreclosure rate percs along at twice
last year's pace.
10/06/2007 Week
ending October 6, 2007: Claims of artificial
life, and another unbelievably good jobs report (quite literally)
as the market marches along. Strangest of all - George
turns bullish short term.
09/29/2007 Week
ending September 29, 2007: While the dollar was busy
this week setting new lows, an increase in earthquakes has us
starting and early watch for Big One #3 - which could be a
'double quake'
09/22/2007
Week ending September 22, 2007: The Fed in a surprise
move drops interest rates a larger than expect 50 basis points.
Tension release period ends, as we cycle into a building
tensions period for fall.
09/15/2007
Week ending September 17, 2007: Boolean
logic says 'no solution in the Middle East, Earthquake #2 of the
quavers and shakes hitsa Indonesia, and here at the ranch, I
show off my goat fence installer.
09/08/2007 Week
ending September 8, 2007: The market continues to look
shaky, layoffs are creeping up, gold is glittering, and oh yes:
Iran war drums beat louder.
09/01/2007 Week
ending September 1, 2007: A long Bernanke speech on
housing and the markets have a weak pre-holiday week. Web
bot project warns on accidents and such over Holiday.
08/25/2007 Week
ending August 25, 2007: The market bounces back from
its recent declines, but that doesn't change my worries about a
'crash window' from September 3 through 18/19th. Terra
intrudes with still more flooding. Yet, we still expect
even more!
08/18/2007 Week
ending August 18, 2007: The markets does just what the web
bot project projected - panic during the August 13-16 period -
and then we get a bounce. Can hardly wait to see what the
next panic window Sep 3-19 brings...
08/11/2007 Week
ending August 11, 2007: The market scrambles to keep
from collapsing in the wake of more disclosures about the
spreading toxic waste from subprime and junk CDO's
08/04/2007 Week
ending August 4, 2007: Markets wait for a good bounce
- but not thiks week as the Dow approaches 13,000 from the wrong
direction.
07/28/2007 Week
ending July 28, 2007: A new minimum wage bill takes
hold - and it doesn't even keep up with inflation. Market
Decline begins - is it th Big One? Likely not...
07/21/2007 Week
ending July 21, 2007: The Fed adds a $1.2 trillion
line item to a budget report, and the President gives his agents
sweeping confiscatory powers that are unsettling at best.
07/14/2007
Week ending July 14, 2007: Let's see...hmmm.. Dow and
S&P hit highs in nominal but not inflation adjusted terms, a new
oil report says shortages within five years and more on terra
intrudes to come.
07/07/2007
Week ending July 7, 22007: The new Employment report
is out, but again the CES Birth-Death model growth was more than
the entire month. Cliff & I did Coast2Coast, and it rains
in Texas - Bit time!
06/30/2007
Week ending June 30, 2007: Mexico eyes a 2% tax on
cash - except cash from overseas - a move which could drive more
illegals to the USA. And more unreal interpretations of
economic reality on Personal Income and Expenditures...
06/23, 2007
Week ending June 23, 2007: The market blows off a few
points as Fed Week arrives - otherwise, the pause before terra
intrudes.
06/17/2008
Week ending June 16, 2007: The Space Station troubles
likely mark the beginning of the "Big Troubles", not the least
of which is terra intrudes expected later this year.
06/10/2007
Week ending June 9, 2007: (After being hacked - a sort
of annual event) Lots of talk about peak oil, taxes, the
continuing war(s) -stuff we focus on around here
06/03/2007
Week ending June 3, 2006: The "flipped" arms race is
back in headlines and the camp[aign to demonize Hugo Chavez
ramps up as the War in Iraq goes badly and we need oil...
05/26/2007
Week ending May 26, 2007: Once again, I run through
how "perpetual war" really is a good thing for the economy. Plus
Hugo Chavez plays Simon Bolivar...or Danny Glover plays Bolivar
and Chavez plays...well, you read it and figure it out...
05/19/2007
Week ending May 19, 2007: We see a so-called "amnesty
bill" is cobbled up - ignoring that except for First People,
everyone in the Americas is a squatter. CPI up, too.
05/12/2007
Week ending May 12, 2007: The Council on Foreign
Relations magazine trial balloons a one-world currency concept
and we see more evidence that people are pulling out their
savings and putting food on credits cards just to make ends
meet.
05/05/2007
Week ending May 5, 2007: A DC Madam goes public - but
most clients are let of easy, the market picks up 200 points -
but the jobs rate moves up a tad to 4.5%. Oh, and the time
machine tells us something new about how time works -- Is the
"George Postulate" dead?.
04/28/2007
Week ending April 28, 2007: A close call for the
Saudis as a major terror ring is busted - keeps us out of gas
lines for now - and the markets roll on to record highs.
04/21/2007 Week ending April 22, 2007: An interview with Jim
Sinclair - and a record for the Dow -- that is, if you don't
count inflation...then it's a different tale
04/14/2007
Week ending April 14, 2007: More on prices - which
aren't reflected in our checkbook, and we grimly report that
flooding is on the way - fulfilling another web bot prediction
04/07/2007 Week
ending April 7, 2007: 15 UK Sailors who were held by
Iran are released, more economic numbers, and we see a report
from retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey on the outlook for Iraq
03/31/2007 Week
ending March 31, 2007: British sailors are taken
hostage leading to more market jitters. The tornado deaths in
Texas and Oklahoma may just be a warmup act - and more
incredible economic numbers...
03/24/2007
Week ending March 24: The Fed stands pat as housing
holds its own for one month and we watch the market put on a
decent-sized rally to fill some gaps down.
03/17/2007
Week ending March 17, 2007: Ides of March arrive:
Pressure up on White House, Housing in doo doo
03/10/2007
Week ending March 11, 2007:Emotional building period
"plateau" is reached this week - no big headlines just
continuing 'pressure' on the working peeps.
03/03/2007
Week ending March 3, 2007: A "prominent" person is
buried, so we watch for the "green death" to arrive - and it did
for the markets with the Dow down more than 500 points this
week.
02/24/2007
Week ending February 25, 2007: Mexico simmers,
inflation lurks while housing falls, and a stew of other
economics before our Ides of march changepoint.
02/17/2007
Week ending February 17, 2007:
Year of the Pig (or Golden Boar) begins for Chinese, Dow looses
8.6% from 2000 despite three records in a row.
02/10/2007
Week ending February 10, 2007:
Our best thought this week involves stopping calling countries
by name, and calling them by what their percentage of global oil
is - the USA is 2.0-2.2% for example, while Russia is 7.3%, Iraq
10.6% and Iran 11.6%. A paradigm shifter.
02/03/2007
Week ending February 3, 2007: We
brush up on fluorides, notice more odd weather, and that UN
Climate report says we're all dead in the long run, ansent a
little restraint. Fat chance.
01/27/2007
Week ending January 27, 2007: The
State of the Union (bored us), some banks that beat Wall St
(this excites us) and the outlook for gold and farmland is
bright (which we already knew....)
01/20/2007
Week ending January 20, 2007: More
cost of living numbers, but no real directional moves while the
Dow struggles higher and the broader markets balk.
01/13/2007
Week ending January 13, 2007:
US continues to "tweak" Iran hoping to escalate in order to help feed the war interests, and we see flooding and storming in the
nation's midsection.
01/06/1007
Week ending January 6, 2007:
UFO's are popping up in news - so what is there investment
meaning? Plus - gold took a moderate hit, but are we
worried? Not a bit - here's why.
2006 Reports
12/30/2006
Week ending December 30, 2006: With
the final day of trading done, looks like precious metals kicked
paper asset's butt. And who else reports this?
12/23/2006
Week ending December 23, 2006:
Inflation is still around - and more than $165 billion could be
at stake as sub prime loans are about to bite leveraged
borrowers.
12/18/2006
Week ending December 16, 2006:
A curious question about a spy case - was there a hidden message
involved? And for the Fed, pressure to raise, but they
stand pat - and then head for China.
12/09/2006
Week ending December 9, 2006:
Hugo Chavez wins in Venezuela - and that gets us back to
discussing the one thing more important than paper in this
economy -- oil!
12/02/2006
Week ending December 2, 2006:
Our time scanners apparently caught the Hawaii "9.5 earthquake
coming" hoax. The market declines a bit, holidays look
sluggish.
11/25/2006
Week ending November 25, 2006: The
market roars on to a new high - giving many investors cause for
Thanksgiving. And a Pan Pacific earthquake warning issued by the time monks.
11/18/2006
Week ending November 18, 2006:
While there was lots of economic news, the highlight of our
report this week is an urgent public advisory about a high risk
earthquake period we're now in covering the "pan Pacific" area -
and it could be as big as a 9.5!
11/11/2006:
Week ending November 11, 2006:
The Balance of Trade improves a bit, but lots of other reasons
to keep a close eye on inflation.
11/04/2006:
Week ending November 4, 2006: Dow
hits more pre-election highs, military papers call for the
resignation of SecDef Rumsfeld and gold makes a surge past $500
on its way to who knows where?
10/28/2006
Week ending October 28, 2006: The
Dow hits records, but we explain how securitization of debt
makes the idea of a true market advance ludicrous.
10/21/2006
Week ending October 21, 2006: Clean
up from Hawaii's "big quake" continues, the Dow closes the week
over 12,000 for the first time ever...and more...
10/16/2006
Week ending October 14,2006:
Politics are heating up as elections near, gas prices are being
pushed down and we get our long predicted early morning
earthquake.
10/7/2006
Week ending October 7, 2006: Things
heat up for the GOP, more job numbers, but look what the CES
Birth Death Model did to 'em!
09/30/2006
Week ending September 30, 2006:
Not only was the rate of GPD growth halved this week, but the
smell of global war is in the air as the world looks like
pre-World War One Europe in many ways.
09/23/2006
Week ending September 23, 2006: A
coup in Thailand - quick as you can say Bob's-yer-uncle, and
with options expiring Friday, we expect the downside of trading
to open.
09/16/2007
Week ending September 16, 2006:
The Balance of Trade is a $68-billion train wreck, but with
modest 3.8% YoY inflation, no one seems to really give a rip.
09/11/2006
Week ending September 9, 2006: Abrupt
Climate Change possible, Iraq War seen as "branding
failure", Mexico simmers.
09/02/2006
Week ending September 2, 2006:
Mexico's president turned back by his Congress, and the personal
savings rate in the US continues negative - a worrisome sign of
consumer spending power.
08/28/2006
Week ending August 26, 2006: One
of those "calm before the storms" weeks, we ponder whether
global warming will precede the "big chill", Housing burst
grows, and militarizing oilfields possible.
08/21/2006
Week ending August 19, 2006: Urban
Survival survives a site hack, a whirlwind tour of the US, while
question arise whether the British 10-plane bomb plot was real,
the administration appeals a wiretap decision and where's my
coffee?
08/124/2006 Week ending August 12, 2006: A
plot to bomb 10-planes is caught by the good guys. And
Newt sees "insurgency" in Connecticut
08/07/2006
Week ending August 5, 2006: Cantarell
and Ghawar are both past peak according to an industry rumor.
07/31/2006
Week ending July 29, 2006: The
religion and resource war spills into Lebanon, who is Leo Wanta,
and some talking points for my Thom Hartmann Show interview...
07/24/2006
Week ending July 22, 2006: A
couple of really remarkable bot hits come in: Cruisie ship/300
people face water and Purple Passions Perplex People. Plus, "A
Clean Break" strategy resurfaces in Middle East
07/17/2006
Week ending July 15, 2006: Senator
Cornyn wants US taxpayers to foot the bill for Mexico public
works, war breaks out for the umpteenth time in the Middle East
and the Fed Flunks Math.
07/10/2006
Week ending July 8, 2006:
Although in the background, housing prices continue to erode.
Also: new jobs numbers.
07/01/2006
Week ending July 1, 2006: Big
floods, were bots confused with the REAL England? And a
pre-holiday rally rescues the markets.
06/25/2006
Week ending June 24, 2006:
Morgellons disease goes mainstream, quake jitters continue, and
the Miami terror bust of 7 suspects is almost too conveniently
timed for the markets.
06/19/2006
Week ending June 17, 2006: We
increase our earthquake watch due to a web bot forecast, and the
Fed ponders whether inflation is back in force.
06/12/2006
Week ending June 10, 2006: Where
we talk about web bot forecasts of the five toes sequence
leading to the Great Quake of summer 2006
06/12/2006
Week ending June 3, 2006: Home
building in trouble, government wants access to your web search
history
06/05/2006
Week ending May 27, 2006:
First of the Summer Quakes arrives, convictions in the Enron
case.
05/29/2006
Week ending May 21, 2006: 12.68%
annual inflation rate, Morgellons arrives, and summer quakes
ahead
05/21/2006
Week ending May 14, 2006: Tensions
build with Mexico, markets look shakey, but what else is new?
05/15/2006
Week ending May 7, 2005: White
job changes, market at the brink, summer shakes arriving
05/08/2006
Week ending April 28, 2006: Silver
margins are jacked up about when the dollar starts to dive
05/01/2006
Week ending April 21, 2006: Inflation
hits a remarkable 8.7% rate - although it's well papered over)
04/24/2006
Week ending April 15, 20906: Chad
stared down central bankers, a rumored May 1 strike by Latinos
looms
04/17/2006
Week ending April 8, 2006:
Life in the context shift, more Libby on the leak, and markets
remain flat
04/10/2006
Week ending April 1, 2006: The
Economy is doing great - April Fools. and PCE flatlines again as
context shift swirls
04/03/2006
Week ending March 25, 2006: We fear
the JIT position of the country will contribute to shortages
when pro Mexico strikes arrive.
03/27/2006
Week ending March 18, 2006: Beside
ammunition being in short supply (some calibers) we start our
"shortage monitor" program
03/20/2006
Week ending March 11, 2006:
We see the possible arrival of the "context change" as shortages
in various items appear.
03/13/2006
Week ending March 4, 2006:
Financial rebellion lurks, the soft dictatorship, and military
prison camp rules discussed
03/06/2006
Week Ending February 25, 2006:
Port debate heats up but we expect no action. Plus tool
roads for the rich
02/27/2006
Week Ending Feb 18, 2006: Another
web bot hit: Two alpine lakes, slides, and government
instability - in the Philippines.
02/20/2006
Week ending Feb 11, 2006: Tagging
of people to enter English bars is discussed and the trade
deficit swells again.
02/12/2006
Week ending February 4, 2006: Web
bots call for emotional release event - we get Danish cartoon
flap - bots right again.
02/05/2006
Week ending January 28, 2006:
Market rallies - sort of surprising considering GDP rate of
increase is falling. Go figure.
01/30/2006
Week ending January 21, 2006:
Dr. Steven Rinehart offers a unique perspective, and see
size up the growing wall of worry
01/23/2006
Week ending January 16, 2006: We
see a meltdown ahead and inflation at the producer price level
looks like 11% inflation
01/16/2006
Week ending January 9, 2006: Web
Bot project right again - secrets revealed and all - worse to
come I'm afraid
2005 Reports
01/09/2006 Week
ending December 31,2005: Dow ends year with small loss,
Blame shifting in Spygate affair
01/02/2006 Week
ending December 24, 2005: Producer prices drop, show
inflation coming, and we worry about Christmas sales
12/25/2005 Week
ending Dec 17, 2005: Contradictory indicators: Current
Account inflation, CPI deflation. Go Figure...
12/19/2005 Week
ending December 11, 2005: Fire wipes out a major
British petroleum depot, housing bubble cracks appearing
12/10/2005
Week
ending December 3, 2005: We explain why DPI-CPI means maybe
just a beer if you're lucky...
12/03/2006
Week
ending November 26, 2005: Canada's onetime defense
chief talks about war with ET's. And Thanksgiving, of
course.
11/28/2005
Week
ending November 19, 2005: The BIG story this week is the Fed
gives up M-3
11/21/2005
Week ending November 12, 2005: Federal
Reserve to hide the evidence - M-3 to disappear. France
riots.
11/13/2005
Week ending November 5, 2005: That burning smell?
Oh that's France. and more happy talk from St. Al the Printer's
Pal
11/07/2005
Week ending October 29, 2005: Scooter Libby
indicted, but questions are hanging over the Bush
administration.
10/28/2005
Week ending October 22, 2005:
Hurricane Wilma's mysterious turns and trouble may be ahead for
Dick Cheney
10/10/2005
Week ending October 17, 2005: Rumors fly about a
grand jury investigating PlameGate and Refco takes a few hits
10/02/2005
Week
ending October 8, 2005: The first major
market dip in a while wipes out half a trillion in paper
wealth. More
09/30/2005 Week
ending September 31: 2005 We head back to
Texas with the economy looking poorly
09/25/2005
Week ending September 24: Among the
aftermath of Katrina and Rita: speculation about climate and
storm control
09/17/2005
Week
ending September 17: Gold breaks out to 17-year
highs and IRS ups the gas mileage allowance.
09/11/2005
Week
ending September 11: Despite Katrina impacts the
markets rally - is a top in or near?
09/04/2005
Week ending September 4: Katrina rips ashore,
ruining petroleum production and wreaks havoc in America's oil
patch
08/27/2005
Week
ending August 27: Hurricane Katrina gets ready to
come ashore as a nightmare storm
08/20/2005 Week
Ending August 20: our inflation forecast
of 13% looks better and Balance of Trade defect spikes
08/13/2005
Week ending August 13:
Web bots seem to fit the Cindy Sheehan case - see
following week, too
08/06/2005
Week ending August 6:
Consumer credit keeps piling up but that means
savings goes to zero
07/30/2004
Week ending July 30: Anthrax in the Dakotas,
North Korean plays us in talks
07/24/2005
Week ending July 24:
Heat records all over the place and the Yuan moves a tiny bit
07/16/2005
Week Ending July 16:
George has emergency appendectomy, producer prices come out
07/10/2005
Week ending July 10:
Where our intrepid reporter goes undercover to find out about
health care costs...
07/03/2005
Week ending July 3:
Wherein we rewrite the Declaration of Independence, plus
assorted real economic news
06/26/2005
Week ending June 26:
Cracks in the earth developing could mean something, and person
income growth slows
06/18/2005
Week ending
June 18: The web bots said "Summer Shakes" in an April 3
forecast. This week they arrived in force...
06/11/2005
Week ending
June 11: Greenspan before the JEC: More happy
predictions and mumbles
06/03/2005
Week ending June
3: The Jobs report and how the CES Birth/Death
model skews the data
05/28/2005
Week ending May 27:
We expected something big this week, but surprise -
nothing much visible!
05/20/2005
Week ending
May 20: Greenspan on oil and GSE's/Housing and Victoria
duff on Derivatives risk
05/13/2005
Week ending May 13:
Treason in Border Patrol - told to stand down on border
arrests!
04/29/2000
Week ending April 29: Fed
ups, danger lingers, markets ignore it all to rally a bit more.
04/22/2005
Week ending
April 22: CPI up, Producer Prices up, and we worry if
10,000 will hold (it does)
04/16/2005
Week ending
April 16: Is it Tax Day selling, or does the market
stand at the edge of a Great Abyss?
04/09/2005
Week ending
April 9: Congressman Paul Questions Iraq War, Bot's
decline week supposed to arrive
04/02/2005
Week ending
April 2: We buy some silver, gas prices to build this
summer, Pope's health a concern
03/25/2005 Missing due to archiving
error
03/18/2005
Week ending
March 19: Reasons for getting into food storage now,
markets set to go nonlinear.
03/11/2005
Week ending March 12: The annual Buffett report to shareholders, a new web bot run
is launched.
03/04/2005
Week ending March 4:
A well intended volunteer group could end up in a shooting
war with Mexican drug gangs in April; and the market reaches a
short-term peak.
02/26/2005
Week ending
February 26: We mark what feels like a global tipping
point, but we expect the market to rally a bit more before heading
south again
02/192005 Week ending
February 19: L.A. gets more rain than Seattle, - more
expected in coming weeks by bots
02/13/2005
Week ending
February 12: Big bergs collide, the north Koreans
threaten with nukes and Joe Granville predicts a declining market.
02/06/2005
Week Ending
February 5: The Pacific shake, sea level rises, but the
markets maintain their bullish bias! It's amazing!
01/29/2005
Week Ending January 29:
Our warnings about earthquakes/changes accentuated with some charts
and data!
01/22/2005
Week Ending
January 22: Earthquakes jump to alarming rates, and a
Canadian claims seeing through walls...
01/16/2005
Week Ending January
15: Is California starting to move (earth movements), Not One
Damn Dime protest, and more...
01/09/2005
Week Ending January 9: A Day of Protest on Inauguration planned; Mexico promotes
illegals with a comic book.
01/02/2005
Week ending
January: Killer Quake- ringing ears experienced in
advance. China eyes the Sudan.
2004 Reports
12/26/2004
Week ending
December 26, 2004: Is something breaking loose?
Major Earthquake strikes South Pacific, slow Christmas sales.
12/17/2004
Week ending December
17,2004: Putin's war on terror sounds more like Bush, and the Fed
does the expected with a 1/4 point hike
12/13/2004
Week ending
December 11, 2004: Kerik nomination to head DHS with
draw, Flow of Funds debt growing by 7+ % /Year
12/06/2004
Week ending December 4
2004: Tommy Th0ompson gives terrorist tips, Ukraine bank runs,
Planet X resurfaces
11/27,2004
Week ending November 28,2004: Iran backs down on nukes, but the real story is the
dollar's decline continues to accelerate.
11/20/2004
Week ending
November 21, 2004: Greenspan warns on Trade, the dollar
sags in a serious way, and the Russians have a hypersonic nuke in the
works.
11/13/2004
Week ending
November 14, 2004: Powell leaving, but promises to be
aggressive abroad, GAO calls for better economic indicators
11/05/2004 Week ending
November 7, 2004: Bush wins reelection as we predicted but the
dollar sets up for a major decline.
10/31/2004
Week ending
October 31,2004: It's almost re-election time - and we
offer a number of useful perspectives
10/24/2004
Week ending
October 24, 2004: Vortex xStream reading software released,
Weak Christmas forecast, and we go on Crash Watch
10/14/2004 Week ending
October 14, 2004: We explain that Hurricane Ivan did much more
damage than expected and how that will push oil further upward
10/07/2004
Week ending
October 7, 2004: G. Lammert's latest predictions, more
scalar weather, and the Energy Info Administration winter outlook is
grim
10/02/2004 Week ending
October 2, 2004: We predict oil to the moon and we ask
whether weather is controlled by scalar weapons
09/25/2004
Week ending
September 25, 2004: Web Bots forecast gold rise, oil
going back up, is Isle Tortugas missing? (No...)
09/18/2004 Week ending
September 18, 2004: Hurricane Ivan's threat to oil,
Regardless of election and the Draft is waiting in committee for
action.
09/11/2004
Week ending
September 11, 2004: A couple of more web bot hits come
true, including Clinton's heart problem plus private traders exits the
NYSE
09/04/2004
Week Ending
September 4, 2004: What to expect from the RNC, and why
no jobs impact from Hurricane Charley?
08/28/2004
Week ending
August 28, 2004: Sprott report on manipulation of gold
prices - plus, web bots apparently right on AA587
08/21/2004
Week ending
August 21, 2004: Google: a national "yellow pages"? Web bots
on RNC, plus $50 oil gets closer.
08/15/2004 Week ending August
14, 2004: Web bots right on Greek accidents involving
athletes, a Ebay'er sells the shirt off his back, PPI hosed.
08/07/2004
Week ending
August 7, 2004: Our "backward looking" future, Ashcroft's
failed attempt to bury forfeiture laws, and stocks to decline
07/31/2004: Week ending July 31. 2004: Will
Saddam live to testify? Latest on India's bank run, and which way do
we turn the air conditioning - up or down?
07/24/2004
Week ending
July 24, 2004: The Battle for 10,000 with Robin Landry's
view. Plus more on rotating bank runs - this time India!
07/17/2004
Week ending
July 17, 2004: Hyperinflation in the PPI? Plus,
pre-selling an Iran war and Sandy Berger's notes in his socks
07/10/2004
Week ending July 10,
2004: Arizona observatory down, Saudi production increase lies,
and the Yukos unraveling
07/03/2004
Week ending
July 3, 2004: Call for UN election monitors, a sour jobs
report, the inflation wave in the PPI numbers
06/26/2004 Week ending June
26, 2004: Web bots hit with Cheney's F.U. and more on how the
lies about housing sales are 'created"
06/19/2004
Week ending
June 19, 2004: SEC trying to limit short sellers through
policy and denial about the 9/11 Commission's finding of no AQ
06/11/2004 Week Ending June
11,2004: The U.S. Secret Army, Worst Dust and Drought Since
Depression (pic)
06/04/2004 Week ending June 4, 2004:
This is our report on mysterious naval
activity - why is everyone putting to sea?
05/28/2004 Week ending May
28, 2004: Letters from the securities industry and oh those
poor consumers.
05/21/2004 Week ending May 22,2004:
Petrocide, If Patton were President, and Security for the G-8 Meetings
05/14/2004
Week ending May 17, 2004:
Will energy
prices push us into an Argentina-like outcome?
05/07/2004 Week ending May 7,
2004: Will Powell try to exit? Will there be a
trucker's strike in June?
04/30/2004
Week ending April 30:
George makes a prediction of 9,500 Dow within 2-weeks. Daring and
dumb? Bold and brilliant?
04/23/2004
Week ending April 23:
A Fresh Web Bot run from HPH and Elaine & I head for Hollywood...
04/19/2004 Week ending April 11: Australia's Oil Grab
04/12/2004
Week ending
April 2: Ben Bernanke's Big Lie (Outsourcing is good!) and
unemployment goes up to 5.7% yet hypesters ignore it, cheering instead
04/05/2004
Week ending
March 26: What are Brit Cavers doing in Mexico? A
two-three week rally begins, IRS decision on Scientologists comes to
light
03/12/2004
Week ending March 19, 2004 Shell restates
reserves (again), Surprisingly bad PPI numbers and Tim B looks at the
72-year economic cycle
03/13/2004
Week ending March 13,
2004: How to hide inflation: Use surcharges!
03/05/2004 Week ending March 5,
2004: Consumer Credit Disaster, Jobs Disaster, ho hum...
02/27/2004
Week ending February
27, 2004: Greenspan: Cut Social Security
02/20/2004
Week ending
February 20, 2004: BLS begs time to cook PPI numbers which are
too bad to release yet...
02/14/2004 Week ending February 13, 2004: Global Minimum Wage & Ken & Barbie split up
02/06/2004
Week ending February
6, 2004: 10.9% Unemployment holds, and how
productivity really kills job creation.
01/30/2004 Week ending January 31, 2004:
GDP figures are hosed, but what else is new? Plus Bonesman 2
(Kerry) steps ahead.
01/25/2004
Week ending
January 24, 2004: A first ever election year crash?
Bonesman 2 to take on Bush, and we define Comstapo...
01/16/2004
Week ending January
16, 2004: Among items: China takes on the world's bond
markets.
2003 Reports
12/27/2003
Week ending December
27, 2003: Among item: CIA thinks the anthrax attack might be
foreign (terrorist) after all...
12/22/2003
Week ending December
22, 2003: Washington Mutual advises no cash or coin in safeboxes!
Our questions unanswered!
12/13/2003
Week ending
December 13, 2003: Among other things, banks limiting cash
withdrawals
11/29/2003
Week ending
November 29, 2003: FTAA Fallout & Dr. Stephen Rinehart's
Update
11/22/2003
Week ending
November 22, 2003: Hiding Amchitka. How USGS is
glowingly correct when reporting Alaska Quakes
11/15/2003
Week ending
November 15, 2003 weekly column
11/22/2003
Forbes Review of Urban
Survival - and counterpoint for the good sport of it
11/14/2003
Highlights of the
week's reports through Nov. 14 Just some odds and ends worth
noting Like Asian Naval build ups
11/01/2003 Famine, GD Pee, & Planet X
From the week’s daily updates
04/27/2003 *
Planet of the Hypes: Planet X & Robots
in our Future. Reasons to be skeptical of darned near
everything
04/20/2003 *
Good Math, Bad Markets: Can
Markets Be Modeled? There are sure lots of people
selling different solutions...
04/13/2003 *
Saturation Economics: After
you've bought an SUV and have three cars, what do you buy next?
04/06/2003 *
Practical Limits of Inflation: Why things will never go up
forever and why gravity still
works
03/29/2003 *
SARS Tracking Tools for
subscribers
03/24/2003 *
The High Price of War: Global Decision
Matrix? A different view of international economic conflict
03/16/2003 *
Prosperity? OK, Around Which
Corner? We still haven't resolve the mutual fund hoax,
but a bounce may come anyway
03/03/2003 * Time or Price? Is a bottom in for
now? The Feb. 30 date is intentional humor, BTW
02/23/2003 * The Counterfeit Solution: Why
the Fed really has no choice but to inflate the money supply
02/20/2003
Waiting for disaster?
-The web bots keep saying a maritime disaster, but when??
02/16/2003 * Prepared, or Paranoid? Sometimes that line gets a little fuzzy thanks to perpetual war
tal...
02/03/2003
Right Again?
- Was the Columbia disaster predicted by the web bots? Or is
something else "maritime" looming?
02/02/2003 *
Nuclear War: This Year? The
odds of nuclear weapons use continues to grow, and with it, the threat
to the economy
01/26/2003 *
Skull and Boners: Bush, Kerry, and
who else? Talk about the club of clubs!
01/17/2003 *
Corporate
Persona: What doesn't have a heart, but more rights than
humans? Answer: Corporations...
01/13/2003 Annual Forecast for 2003 - War? High gold prices? Or
a major rally - read the web bot forecast.
01/12/2003 *
Licensing the Web?
The Internet is hugely deflationary and it allows real
democracy - and that's dangerous!
2002 Reports
12/29/2002 *
Annual Forecast
- Part One: Problems with Iraq Occupation forecast. An
easy call, but who else said it?
12/22/2002 *
Rock Soup:
An old Danish Fairy Tale explains the world neatly...
12/07/2002 *
Quasi-Crystals:
The Next Plastics? Here's a high tech breakthrough with
curious properties worth watching
11/24/2002 *
A Science
Problem: If you are what you eat, are you part jellyfish
now?
11/19/2002 *
Travel Notes:
The intrepid reporter visits Long Beach and the container docks...
11/10/2002 *
Car Buying?
Me? I didn't buy it, but was shopping an eye opener
11/08/2002
Interview with a Genius - Cesare Marchetti - father of S curves (see
Dec 2001 article below)
10/31/2002 Independent Verification: Dr. Steve
Rinehart’s work shows we're on the right track.
10/25/2002
Sniper
Aftermath: How
close were the web bots this time? Decide for yourself.
09/26/2002
How the World Really
Works
It's not a conspiracy, but it's damn curious
09/19/2002 Gold
Break Out and the 30-years War Framework
Big moves are underway now
09/01/2002 Silver Fraud Alert + Economic Reasons why war
with Iraq is unavoidable
02/16/2002 Ahead, Darkly: Pollution, debased
currency and a collision with fundamental Islam ahead, what's to
worry?
02/10/2002
Two Months to Crash?
We might be early, but another mini-crash shapes up by summer
02/02/2002 The Scale of Crime:
You owe $10 its your problem: If its $10 Billion, it's the bank's
problem
01/27/2002
Constrained Systems: If the pendulum of a clock hits the
stops - how about the economy
01/20/2002
Depreciating Money
-
The literature suggests that if money is at rest (not invested) it
should depreciate. A question of velocity
01/13/2002 Crash Alert
The market
this week shaped up like it might hit a crash - but once again the Fed
stepped in with the PPT
01/06/2002
Bankruptcy?
Is the U.S. technically Bankrupt? Well, it depends on how you
read the numbers really...
2001 Reports
and Earlier
12/28/2001 S-Curves & Bots: When we look at cumulative markets, we
see trends that look like bacterial grow rates in Petri dishes...
12/22/2001 Web=CB fad:
Just like any
innovation, the web is going through its own boom and bust
cycle - just like CB radio
12/15/2001
Conspiracies
- Under rocks, trees, on phone ta[ps and black helicopters?
Nope. Just a bunch of money and power
12/08/2001 Matching '29 #'s Once again, time to line up 1929 numbers with today and see just how
the Replay of 1929 is progressing
12/02/2001
A Directorate 153?
Suppose there really was a worldwide conspiracy...
11/25/2001
LT Elliott Waves: A look at some long term trends in the
economy
11/18/2001
A New World Axis: The New World Order is really two
factions about power & oil
11/10/2001
On Use of WMD's-
Why we need to pay attention to Islamic fundamentalist writings
11/04/2001
Reality Ratio III:
When you look at earnings, consider the ratio of market cap to actual
sales. The numbers are shocking!
10/29/2001
Web Bot 2 Will the web bots be right a
third time?
10/27/2001
Skip a Depression?
- If we start a war right away, would that do the trick
10/19/2001 Future of Islam The first copy of Inside Report - + bin
Laden and Hitler compared
09/07/2001
Hoover II Spreaks
Was this the last chance to
get it right before the Tipping Point?
07/22/2001
The Real Agenda at G-8? Expansion of economic
slavery?
07/22/2001
Waiting to Crash the West?
Remonetizing Gold Guess what we just bought 7
more ounces of?
07/20/2001 Chaos & Complex Sets: A Tipping Point?
Are we locked in the dance?
07/01/2001
Electric Economics
A New Paradigm for Economics, a model for learning?
05/29/2001 Rechargeable Money No
a bank card hoax, the real deal. Then who needs banks?
05/22/2001
Printing Money: Weimar America What do you see when you
read money supply figures?
05/05/2001
You There, Howard? The hierarch of
decline: Why we'll have two - not just one - recession....
04/24/2001
Which of the Four Horsemen?
Nukes, bioterror, and no gas? Long term investing?
Right.....
02/10/2001
If this is the Titanic,
those must be Debtbergs A third Mazurok-Ure
Correlation outcome.
02/03/2001
Wings and Small Control
Surfaces A Mazurok-Ure Correlation
outcome: The
economic
airfoil
01/08/2001
It Maybe Wasn't Nixon: Gold? No. Mortgage
factors yes! The Mazurok-Ure Correlation.
01/02/2001
Straight Talk about Sex: Why, in the coming
year, this market is screwed.
12/22/2000
One Over Virtuous Cycle. If the reciprocal of good is
bad, this must be...guess what?
12/15/2000
Bush 2 as Hoover 2 in Depression
2. If this
isn't a replay of 1930, what is?
02/10/2000
Is there a Central Banker's Conspiracy? Maybe, maybe not. But
globalization has leveled markets in an odd way....
09/17/1999
Death By Dot Coms:
Our remarkable predictions about the Dot Bomb crack up -
subsequently correct BTW
02/10/1998
Method to Calculate the next Crash: Using history, ball park the next
Big One yourself!
11/15/1997
Long Wave Economics:
Is the fourth time the charm?
Undated Reports
11/10/1998
The Personal Planning Guide Do
you live life to win, or not to lose? ( a Word 97 document, 24
pages from 1998)
11/04/2003
Dangerous Beef: An
anonymously contributed paper on the dangers of beef in America
(Reader contribution)
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