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2008 Reports

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 "revoloution/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