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2009 Reports
(YTD)
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 "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!
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