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I don’t know if you’ve had enough coffee yet to be able to form up a question at this ungodly hour, but did you happen to catch the data out Wednesday from the Census and HUD New Residential Sales report? This is the poster child for “Train wreck…”
Sales of new single-family houses in March 2014 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 384,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Sometimes, I mean like every so often, you have to look at coincidences and ask “What does it all mean?”
Yesterday morning ( 8 AM) I posted an article for Peoplenomics subscribers called “What Ever Happened to “Peak Oil?”” Pretty interesting article – and it supports what both comments here (and from Oilman2) have been saying: Peak Oil isn’t gone, it’s just a jagged peak.
So there I was, outside, working on the Never-ending Project (the sun porch) and who calls?… Read More Now
10-years to dark is about it. Maybe less. By my reckoning, depending on the resource wars. Your not hearing about it because some greedy bastards are planning to bend you over, but good on the way to the reality of Peak Oil. Peak Oil is real, so if you’re patient, what is going on with the stock market is just marking time until really bad impacts of a modest economic recovery show up. Then energy prices are set to double thanks to some energy traitors in Kansas and the cost of money. What comes with higher interest rates, a growing appetite for oil, and oh yes – the Ben Dover part: a freeze up in how many new rigs are going out to work oil. There goes production and shortly after, the Dollar.… Read More Now
You ever walk into a casino? There are carefully controlled aspects to it you seldom think about. But, just as one example, there is never a clock around. That’s because (for obvious reasons) casinos don’t want you knowing what time it is.
Similarly, in the financial markets, the little matter of “What Time is It?” is of more than passing importance.
If, for example, the stock market is headed for new highs, which some of the data would suggest (like the stronger than expected leading indicators), the people who run the markets (the commercials) would love nothing better than to load the boat ahead of time – buying when stocks are cheap. That way, when stocks run up, they will sell at higher prices and keep the casino going.… Read More Now
Mr. Ure is seriously losing weight here lately. I won’t be so dumb as to put up numbers but I will say that our recent visit here at Uretopia Ranch with my friend Howard Hill was instrumental.
How so? Well, Howard recommended a book… The Gabriel Method: The Revolutionary DIET-FREE Way to Totally Transform Your Body
What makes Jon Gabriel’s book so cool is that it doesn’t start with calories, sitting around and being a slug, cutting our sugary drinks, or any of the “normal” starting points. What he does that’s different is he starts with the psychological reasons why some people “turn on their fat storage systems.”
Sure enough, when I started doing some of the exercises in the book, what came through were some leftover mental thought fragments (the kind that can “program” you, if you don’t consciously dredge them up and smash them with full-bright thinking and dealing with them.… Read More Now
No, I don’t joke about serious matters like WW III. And I’ve been telling you for a good long time because it when when our “killing cycle” research suggests that we’ll be due for some truly gory headlines.
This idea of a cyclical “clock” to news events is hardly new: The idea has been around since men were walking around without iPhones and the whole business of astrology was a well-established fact of life long before electricity. And if figured into all the major “monumental projects of history” – things like Pyramids, and Machu Picchu.… Read More Now
Remember last week, we had that reader in India who had gone bike riding…and whose bike lock key had disappeared? Looks all over the place, but it’s like the missing key dropped out of our reality? Well, guess what’s back…
Hi George,
The missing bicycle key turned up, carefully disguised as a dust bunny under the desk in the room NEXT DOOR to where I had emptied my pockets.
Cheers,
Jean-Philipe
long-time reader in sunny south India
This “thing” about keys is really interesting. It’s because they have HUGE significance down at the archetype level. You know, the one Jung was all over?… Read More Now
Own energy, own the future: I was sitting around Friday, trying to noodle out what is likely to happen in Ukraine next week and how that would play through in global markets when a novel thought slapped me awake. I do some of my best thinking in semi-snooze mode, you see. Sure enough, when I looked back on a Peoplenomics report from 2001, the pieces began to click into place…how it all fits together: Putin’s buddy-buddy talk down in the Bush ranch late 2001, stories about New World Order… and bingo! We may have a larger game and Donetsk in play. We’ll run some numbers and you’ll see what I mean, perhaps, but not without some good strong coffee and a few headlines to shake us awake, first…
But what Friday isn’t good, if you’re on the five-day treadmill? So with a semi-holiday this morning, and stock and bond markets closed, there’s little of economic data to prevent mind-rot, so we turn to the next best time: Religion.
Not that there’s not plenty of dough to be made there. I figure my odds of scoring a bizjet would have been significantly higher if I’d opted for theology over business administration. Why, even if the base pay were the same, the church gig would still be a better deal just on a tax basis.… Read More Now
One of the more confusing holidays of the year is before us this morning: Good Friday.
Stock and bond markets are closed in the US, but elsewhere around the world, it’s a different deal since not everyone buys in to the Christian-Judeo view of things. Still, this weekend’s confluence of Easter happening in mid Passover has left folks confused.
On the federal side, the ultimate arbiter is the federal office of personnel management which has their list here. Feds get 10-scheduled and some personal time, if I recall. Comp time, if memory serves, too.… Read More Now
There’s not really much to talk about ion markets this morning. The Dow put on a marvelous short squeeze Wednesday but in the after math this morning, look for the Dow to give back some of that as the day wears on. The reason being it’s a three day weekend for markets and there’s a good chance that the Ukraine situation could change for the worse (much worse) by Monday if Vlad Putin gets is T levels too high.
The unemployment claims for last week came in about 8,000 lower than expected, which convinced the futures that the world was not ending just this minute, so we slid back to about an even opening level.… Read More Now
Not too often that I seek reader input on project around the ranch, but we’ve been busy getting the new sunroom and the new audio/video room ready to “button up” with sheetrock.
And so the question of the morning is: Between Lowes and Home Despots, who’s got the lightest-weight 1/2 rock for the ceiling?
I know this is a rather esoteric kind of question, but it’s the little decisions that make a difference in home improvement projects. Given a choice between wrestling around the heavier sheetrock or some of the new (lighter weight) material, this seems like a no-brainer. Also, the lighter rock is supposedly less susceptible to sag when using 24-inch centers on the ceiling.… Read More Now