by diastole-admin | Feb 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
Hello from Snowmageddon Connecticut, with especial hellos to anyone else who is caught in the bomb cyclone. 15” of snow in my yard with drifts up to three or four feet against the house, and it’s still coming down. My power is on, but occasionally flickers. This...
by diastole-admin | Feb 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
Happy Lunar New Year! It is now the Year of the Horse, and we should all celebrate the Spring Festival for the next 15 days, as the Chinese do. Catch you later! Or now. Now also works. We got a couple of important data points last week. First, the January jobs report...
by diastole-admin | Feb 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
Markets diverged last week, with the Dow Jones Industrials (old-fashioned!) closing above 50,000 for the first time while the Nasdaq (tech-heavy!) finished its fourth straight week of losses. The disconnect was caused by AI, of course, when Anthropic, an AI company,...
by diastole-admin | Feb 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
That dratted groundhog saw his shadow this morning and predicted six more weeks of winter. My garbage cans are already buried in drifts, and my car is frozen in the garage. But compared to lots of people’s problems, my complaints are picayune. Good luck to everyone...