Bruce Henderson is a former Marine who focuses custom data mining and visualization technologies on the economy and other disasters.
As most of the readers here know, my team has been working with new technology to extract, refine and exploit information that is all around us. We have named that technology Boomerang and one example of it is an application called Hardtack. We are approaching the 1 year anniversary of full scale data gathering with […]
Tomorrow is “Super Tuesday” as they call it, the one day where the majority of the nominating delegates for each party are chosen on a single day. This year it’s larger than ever, with several states having moved their primary voting up to February 5th to play a relevant part in selecting the party’s presidential […]
A year ago there was a great deal of disagreement on this nation’s housing bubble, with the people invested long in real estate insisting that it was just “fair value” and that prices would continue ever higher, carrying those “wise” enough to get in at historically high costs to greater riches. To keen observers, the […]
For those of you who did not see the story on mortgages in last weekend’s 60 Minutes, they revealed America’s first glimpse at a trend that is a serious threat to our economy; people intentionally defaulting on their mortgages. This except is from Minyanville’s professor Kevin Depew’s Five Things You Need To Know: (my comments […]
From the New York Post’s page 6 section, this gem of a cartoon that sums up the effect of this week’s endorsement of Illinois Senator Obama by Senator Kennedy, while at the same time lampooning Kennedy and Clinton. With the Republican race now looking more and more like the Mac & Cheese express, I once […]
Thanks to co-worker and friend Rob Wade for sending me this great video of someone getting a back seat ride in an F/A-18. During my days in the “short haircut club for men” we would sometimes take people up in the back seat of our RF-4B’s, though most frequently it happened when we were outside […]
The DoD has begun to discuss high level elements of a project to build a hypersonic UAV system, currently working under the name Falcon Blackswift. The details that have emerged thus far are quite tantalizing. From Wired: According to the few details available on Blackswift, Lockheed Martin’s famed Skunk Works shop is the main contractor […]
I know that the president and the congress have been hard at work trying to perform some kind of economic defibrillation to make sure the US does not slide into recession. At present it looks like Uncle Sam is going to be handing out packages of “free money” to everyone in the country except rich […]
Today is a perfect day to share some facts on the up side of finance. As is usually the case, even in an ugly market not everything is always all bad. For example we are once again to going take a look at Hardtack data on price per square foot. This time we review the […]
Republican Turnout Problems – A Super Tuesday Story
I was amazed to find this bit of data over at Time’s blog: Here are the numbers just for the 19 states where both parties had elections yesterday Obama/Clinton voters: 14,460,149 McCain/Romney/Huckabee voters: 8,367,694 Or, 73% more Democratic voters than Republican voters. A lot of this is huge Democratic numbers in New York and California. […]
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