Not suprisingly, I guess, a lot of people are pretty down on the US these days and calling for economic malaise — with prognostications running from “slower growth” (Bush administration) to “Greater Depression” (most of the tin-foil hat economic blogsters). While, there seems to be an “argument” between [Continue]

Just a quick break from the workday to follow up on my last post. In my last post, I pointed out that I had a “sense” that things were getting ready to “turn”….meaning the trends: commodities higherdollar lowerUS financials lowerUS stock market lower (in general) …were all getting ready to reverse for a [Continue]

Tried to drive out to Punta Del Diablo the other day and just gave up after several hours on the road and starting to lose the sun. We cut about an hour off the trip by going to Paloma instead. interesting little town with an amazing number of restaurants. It must be very busy with tourists during [Continue]

FIRE, which is some acronym that stands for Finance (loans), Insurance & Real Estate — the heart of the “service economy” I guess….Apparently, the only place where regular Amercans were making any money anymore….at least until things cracked up. Well, remember when I said that there was a good chance that fubarrio [Continue]

Excuse my absence from posting anything lately. It’s a bit ironic, because I actually have quite a bit to say. It’s just a matter of trying to organize it all into some sort of coherent thought process that someone could reasonably follow. Now, THAT is going to a take a little doing….but here it [Continue]