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November 2023: They NEVER SEE IT COMING!!! Because they don’t do data & it’s deplorable…

“The striking thing … the economic data have been surreally good!” (source revealed below) Principles I’m a fairly large individual … standing at roughly 6’3” 255lb; a 52” chest, 36/38” waist depending on the cut of pants with veins popping from my forearms, it’s safe to say I have an athletic build. Over the years, many have suggested that…

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Q3 2023: Short…The Establishment!!!

“The war on inflation is over. We won, at very little cost.” economist @PaulKrugman A crumbling narrative Our opening quote comes from “Nobel laureate”, “Distinguished” Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Op-Ed columnist for @nytopinion, Author + more … just ask him, I’m sure he’ll tell you … Paul Krugman in a…

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September 2023: TRAPPED…There is NO easy way out!!!

Last month we discussed the importance of understanding the details in the data quoting Twain, “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” … we noted that it’s not the data that lies, but those who manipulate it. This month we’re going to piggyback off a few of our more recent notes for as the data…

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August 2023: Der Teufel steckt im Detail!!!

“Der Teufel steckt im Detail” While nearly impossible to pinpoint with 100% accuracy its origin, historians suggest it was the controversial German philosopher and poet Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) who uttered the above phrase in the late 1880’s … most likely a variation of French novelist, Gustave Flaubert’s (1821 – 1880), “Le bon Dieu est dans le…

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June 2023: Data vs. Price action… A stellar record is on the line!

Addicere… The above word may look familiar to you, not because you know it’s meaning, but the meaning of the word that’s derived from it?! ‘Addicere’ is Latin for “enslaved” or “bound to” … foundationally, it is root of the word, ‘addiction’. Merriam-Webster defines the word, ‘addicted’ the following way: “exhibiting a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for…

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May 2023: “This Race is NOT Always to the swift”

We began our 3Q2022 note off with an Aesop fable … “The ass &his driver”. To my surprise, some readers were unfamiliar with both Aesop and this particular “fable”. Though, as we noted then: “The beauty in these fictional tales resides in their elegant simplicity.” Given the “disconnect” between current economic conditions as defined by THE DATA vs. recent…

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Q1 2023: The oldest allegorical symbol in alchemy…

“The ancient Egyptians understood time as a series of repetitive cycles, instead of something linear” ~Joobin Bekhrad, December 4, 2017 Ouroboros … … is commonly defined as: “a circular symbol depicting a snake, or less commonly a dragon, swallowing its tail, as an emblem of wholeness or infinity.” While the first known ouroboros was found on a “golden shrine” in the Egyptian tomb of King…

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March 2023: “UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot… nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” ~Dr. Suess

“UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” The Lorax by Dr. Seuss UNLESS Each year at my children’s school, the older kids participate in a “poetry teahouse” where students choose a poem, commits it to memory and recites it while standing before peers, teachers, and parents alike. While the…

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