January 26, 2013 — After our morning jaunt through a few headlines to warm-up the brain cells, this morning we will do some rudimentary “future seeing” by setting up our own system of data collection using off the shelf tools. Does it work for valuing companies and investment vehicles? Well, no reason why not. Depending on how much time you want to invest in the project, of course…
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January 23, 2013 — “…psst…wanna make north of 20% with low risk?” Back to our ‘core” this morning…getting rich. The economy – more or less – sucks here lately. And although there are occasional ways to make something other than bank rates of interest, most of those come with a fair amount of risk. Still, there are a few ‘sneakers’ left – and IF we don’t get a global coastal event, once Elaine and I get back from summer travels this year (with Panama Bates taking point at Uretopia in our absence) we will likely wade into this investment ourselves. As usual, more on the sport of “making money” – a topic that never goes out of style – after we turn over a few headlines and look to see what’s under them.
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January 12, 2013 — Reality is funny stuff. It’s how a person chooses from a wide assortment of sensory inputs, to assemble a rational framework to deal with their surroundings. As in the case of gun (or civil) rights, much of what is held as core belief set may, upon inspection, be found to have its roots in parental upbringing and message frequency in media…all of which is played as a fine harp by those expert in persuasion block principles. So in order to construct a little different ‘reality’ this morning, I thought it would be instructive to revisit our fictional Directorate 153 Project, which like the (allegedly fictional) Report From Iron Mountain
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January 19, 2013 — As you may recall, since I’ve mentioned it a few times, that I’m in the process of writing my next book (concurrently with finishing the update to “How to Live on $10,000 a year, or less” [4th edition]. The new book is “Cradle to Grave: Everything’s a Business Model” and it is an unabashed rethink of what the sheep have been taught…things like the history of the Women’s Movement. This week I’ll give you a short chapter first draft on exactly this poiont and present statistics that show the main beneficiaries of the women’s moment may have been…MEN and corporations. Whether this was a good thing (furtherance of human rights) or just a business model (more jobs competition) designed to hold down labor costs and wreck the nuclear family, we can debate all day. Which we can after first delving into a few warmer-upper headlines to get the old blood pressure up. With some help from that hardest working woman of all…Mrs. Olson.
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January 16, 2013 — This morning we open the mail bag and there are plenty of ‘forbidden topics’ kinds of questions that we don’t necessarily want to be looking at or talking about in public. So this morning, for subscribers only, some answers to questions that people are asking – hard ones – that we normally don’t mess with. After our usual dose of morning headlines, of course…
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January 9, 2013 — I had a chance this week to arrive at something of a truce with a ‘liberal’ friend who is very much in the anti-gun camp. By sharing our concerns back and forth we’ve hammered out some ideas that may have some merit. Then, there’s a short recap of last night presentation to the local ham radio club – some thoughts on emergency power systems for ham radio operators should the ‘stuff’ hit the fan. This is an important issue for a lot of people besides hams – like seniors and COPD victims who have to use an oxygen concentrator, for example. But, as always, we’ll start off with a couple of cups of coffee on charts and headlines, since darn near everything depends on the operating environment around us…
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January 5, 2013 — In the wake of the 7.5 quake off Southeast Alaska overnight, we recheck not only our earthquake recovery plans, and I also did a quick check around the country to sense what’s out there. And we’ll talk about a very personal indicator…which even my wife Elaine is coming around to believe in. But first – no change to our morning routine here – a check of overnight headlines and a detailed check of what our trading modelis telling us: Change is at hand…
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January 2, 2013 — I’ve had so many notes up on the computer that now that I’ve gone paperless they’re all going to have to turn into reports. So this morning we look (yet again) gun control, calls to overthrow the Constitution with a replacement, a check of famine prospects, plus we pencil out the date when China will overtake the USA as biggest global economy. Hint: Sooner than you think. First, though, let’s all wander off to the headlines and have some of that “The Economy is fixed” Kool-Aid being served up in Washington this morning where the Fiscal Cliff Kabuki – Phony Budget Cut Act is just getting out… Lace up your can-kickers…this is harsh…but watch markets rally like mad today. Until someone besides me figures out the spending bill may be illegal…
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