Or they’re the drowning man who wants to throw you off the ship and take it for themselves.
10 yr back below 4.5%, down 4 bips or so
Not sure it will stay that way. The dollar is flat, maybe softening or maybe not…
SM futures were down a bit more earlier, but it’s hard to see the SM down with slightly weaker rates.
Oil down too – sitting at $89.
PM’s remind me of a ship, stranded on a sandbar and half full of water. Nowhere to go.
Ipso
If your on the cost of Washington a big storm heading your way. Maybe SNG too and Oregon even Calif but particularly Washington and all those trees to but the waves so watch out.
More gas statistics I remember.
When I started driving in in California in 1957 gas was 15 cents per gallon.
When I left Alaska in 1975 Gasoline had just increased to $1.00 per gallon.
When I arrived in BC Canada in 1975 gas was only 44 cents per imperial Gallon (5 quarts) or 33 cents US equivalent.
Yesterday gas in BC Canada was $1.89 per liter which equates to about $7.50 per US Gallon or $9.45 per Imperial Gallon..
No consideration has been given for exchange rates which have reversed from about 1.35 one way to 1.35 the other during that time FWIW!
FWIW…
James Kunstler is on a real tear this week.
Once fringe “conspiracy” vapors are suddenly very real and solid.
The Covid crap rolls on.
Buygold
Gas prices in California where I’m at is about 5 dollars plus or minus. More than DC that caused it thanks to taxing which Newsom increased.
Those close to the border can get it for 1.4 a gallon in Mexico although in their currency it’s expensive.
Keep that in mind because Gruesome Newsom is still in heat over the White House seat.
Supposedly vetoed a bill that would give teachers and the state the right to steal children from their parents who don’t affirm any delusional ideations about transgenderism they’re getting from these schools. Then hand them over to the so called medical industrial complex profiting of it.
So he still has aspirations.
At what point will states break from some city’s and further grouping to succeed as states.
Shorts in many sectors are topping today or close per indicators perhaps temporarily. But downward pressure on the SM still looks strong.
Then we have congress threatening to shut down the Gov. over the Demos endless spending of our tax dollars at any chance they get but is it all for show.
The market and its slow walking is boring right now.
I’m just planning some stocks ahead of time even if I get in a little early.
10 yr set to breach 4.5%
Dollar starting to get some traction. More of the same, but we’ll see whether they can flush some SM shorts today.
Copper shares heading south, not sure what copper is doing, but I’d assume it’s down.
We watch another day go by, endlessly drifting lower. SM just picked up some steam to the downside, not sure why. Maybe because it’s 70% overvalued?
Believe it or not, gas was down $.13 in our area last week from $3.65 to $3.52. Not sure why.
Just bring the collapse of everything already. This gets boring.
Maya
I know nothing about them, how they work or if the color blue doesn’t ignite. However I didn’t believe it either because I saw enough of the pattern of the fire, the winds blowing trees bending almost to the ground and witnessed first hand how fast fire can come down a mountain like a rocket and even faster than the eyes it can see carry embers until you see fire around you wondering how it got there. I read one of the survivors say the same thing: He didn’t even see the fire come down it was so fast they didn’t know what hit them but all of a sudden there was fire all around him and he knew to put a rag in his mouth the had in his back pocket. The only reason I saw it was because I was on the ground a distance away from the at 15 yrs old walking home from school with better than usual hearing and heard strange crackling sounds almost like fire crackers at the top of the mountain and looked up to see it come down like a jet and sounded like one too. It was terrifying. I was right in its path but on the ground and brush cleared up to near the homes behind me except for a few things suddenly on fire I don’t know for sure if it was as fast as blinking your eyes once or twice but it was that fast.
Yea I’ve seen a fire tornado but only on video.
If it was this Dew it wouldn’t of happened that fast to ignite everything at once then the fire would of been sporadic.
goldielocks @ 21:21
Blue lasers did not burn Lahaina, Maui. That conspiracy theory sucked in a lot of otherwise smart people. But NOBODY figured in the amount of raw power it would take to get a laser thru 185km of atmospheric attenuation with enough burning power arriving on the ground to accomplish the ‘wonders’ of burnt Lahaina. Some really smart, and skeptical, friends and I figured the power needed is in the MEGAWATTS. It would take a nuclear power plant in orbit to drive such a laser.
Now… such weapons DO exist, but they are ground-based with a big powerplant backing them up.
Wind driven firestorms can, and do, make all kinds of strange actions that are just not intuitive to the standard mental image of a ‘big fire’. So people make up sh!t to explain what they do not understand. Ever seen a fire tornado? In one video of Lahaina I saw one house untouched while everything around it burned to the ground. And the house was NOT blue. The blue umbrellas were commercial grade heavy, and probably have a tag stating they are ‘fire resistant material’ as some local fire codes will require. And it all depends on how the winds whirl.
Maya This is not to make a joke of the atrocity that happened in Hawaii

But the Dew Direct energy weapon some believe caused the fires that only affected the area they wanted to turn into a 5 minute city’s that apparently passes over the color blue.
SPAM Shortage Looms
“”Spam Strike” Looms After Hormel Minnesota Workers Reject Contract Offer ”
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/spam-strike-looms-after-hormel-minnesota-workers-reject-contract-offer
OH NO! Hawaiians consume more Spam than anything else, except rice. When Islanders find out “no more Spam Musubi” there will be a panic buying spree that will put the toilet paper wars to shame. Get your canned meat (?) now before it’s all gone!
We have a bigger parasite to worry about
That is deadly and will kill the host. Politicians They want to hold the economy hostage so they can say we just had to do it.
Being prepared
For their next Covid variant is the best defense against any mandates masks and shut downs they may try to pull, Including the vaccinated.
Overton
Well I listened to Campbell. He’s absolutely right. The prices are out of sight and been saying that myself. It would be abuse and ignorance to expect kids these days to have to leave their parents home with no where to go. Even if they did work they’d need a car, insurance and a place to stay which none of it they could afford.
If kids wind up on the streets your indangering them to being a victim of a crime or even getting involved in crime to survive or drugs at a time they would be vulnerable to taking them.
Young are dropping out of jobs but not sure why. Some think it’s them, that they don’t fit into a society where you just work have no life and still have nothing. They don’t understand what’s happening isn’t right and not supposed to be happening and being caused by these politicians and neocons causing this mess and mayhem that have to go.
When people in real estate like Campbell are telling you how bad it is and it’s really bad, then it’s bad.
MetalsGuy
When I ordered 100 over a year ago there were no problems with US customs ( no charges)but remember it went thru NYC and the customs force was xtra thin. They had some sort of guarantee for a new shipment at no charge if it got lost. I know people ordered in Canada and got it however , I ask around this year.
Maya
Bubble packs you can also keep track at how many are there.
They started using them in long term care and rehab hospitals because they were getting all this foreign help to keep wages down and fill in shortages but they started piling in and they weren’t giving all their meds out so they started using bubble packs. I remember working in one asked to go there twice to straighten out issues but for wounds. I was in a group of people and a consultant came to me ask me how can we prove their not giving the meds after a RN over heard one of them saying he just throws it in the trash. They were even throwing out papers on new order then saying a person never did them getting the wrong people in trouble including labs they needed attention. “ lazy” Pretend there busy working doing nothing. I told the consultant to due labs check their levels. Levels proved they weren’t giving them. People got fired others got warnings and I had a lot of people angry after me lol
In Calif or Texas anyways
You can order ivermectin and antibiotics much cheaper at trusted Mexican pharmacy’s but it takes awhile to get it. I haven’t done it but know someone from Texas who has and loaded up on antibiotics and prednisone along with ivermectin along with a few other things. You just can’t order pain meds on line without a prescription.
Overton
Also beside crime in Southern Cal and San Francisco and street drugs they have people parking on private streets that also know when you come and go from your place. One guy who left southern Cal posted that he rented a apt upstairs with a view with a patio and in the morning he’s watch homeless come out of their hiding places in the bushes like zombies.That day or night they would watch for a opportunity to use their patio electric socket to charge their phones and you better keep those doors and windows locked.
If your selling your house and have left it, it would be best to have a trusted house sitter or wind up with squatters living in it.
Overton
I didn’t read it but he’s in real estate right?
so far anyways it’s way over priced. Especially coastal areas. My nephew in southern Cal is currently selling his condo for a little over 400k My mothers house on the cost in Carmel which has pricy unique homes with a ocean view from a safe distance from the patio but because Carmel’s quite hilly the patio hangers about three story’s high on a hill and wouldn’t want to be there in a quake that when she died my step father lives in now sadly alone but initially hers, had doubled in price in probably the last 5 or so yrs.
If you sell and buy new or Refi when rates were lower you’d get that but if you didn’t do it before priced ran up before interest rates changed you’d be paying more in taxes with the current prices and Calif has the highest taxes and insurance. Even car insurance. It used to be if you owned a car and had full coverage or comprehensive plus a good driving record your insurance could go down through the years. Not any more, instead it keeps going up because Calif caused it to be that way. Apparently that causes people not to get insurance like heath care cost did so you better have full coverage rate or at least uninsured added as my daughter learned.
Questions
1. Isn’t the first and primary concern of the military to protect our borders?
2. With the current demos in office which job is more dangerous and likely to get you killed protecting this country ? Being in the military or being a cop on the street?


