Bruce Henderson is a former Marine who focuses custom data mining and visualization technologies on the economy and other disasters.
Ok, I am probably an old, partially insane intelligence junkie. But I wandered across this site that is devoted to old Soviet era propaganda and motivation posters. These things always fascinated me (the modern ones from China and North Korea still do), and this site, as you might expect, has one of them each day. […]
October is Wall Street’s least favorite month. The big drops in points tend to come in October, and it seems that the Wall Street insiders are smelling something coming in the wind. From Bloomberg: Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) — Skittishness over the U.S. stock market’s record-setting rally is reaching a crescendo among options traders who are […]
A few weeks ago the Fed massively cut rates, essentially stepping in to free up money that the banks and large investment firms could not or would not. Most observers would expect that the credit crisis had largely passed, and in fact the press trumpeted such. In my opinion all they did was kick the […]
The Federal Reserve on Friday reported that consumer credit rose at an annual rate of 5.9% in August, the biggest increase in three months. The increase in consumer credit was led by an 8.1% increase in revolving credit, which is the category that includes credit cards. Non-revolving credit, which includes auto loans, also rose at […]
Last month a watershed event took place in Iraq. During a raid near Sinjar, an interesting Al-Qaeda figure, Shiek Muthanna, was killed in a raid. This fellow was in change of bringing foreign fighters into the country to execute operations against US forces and the Iraqi population. While it is always a great day when […]
Attention all evil geniuses and wannabe super villains, I am guessing Villain Source is just for you! Ever wonder where the super evil go to scheme and plot? It could be here. Look at some of the wonderful advice that you can find: THEY’LL KNOW. NEVER BLUFF WITH SUPERWEAPONS. If you’re going to freeze London, […]
Japan is a wonderful and fascinating place. It has a long proud tradition of a warrior culture, that at the end of WW2 was invalidated and pushed to the far corners of Japanese society. Japan was all about peace and happiness. With a huge US presence in multiple bases across Japan, the people shifted their […]
Word from the New Scientist that a group of researchers are working up a detailed SETI search on a nearby star that is specifically selected because of it’s similarities to our sun. From New Scientist The star, called HIP 56948, lies a little more than 200 light years from Earth. Its size, mass, temperature, and […]
Sometimes I think that all wit and humor has been driven from public discourse through poltical correctness and mindless subjugation to political and social “causes”. Then I wander into something like this (From a source I usually don’t think highly of). From The San Francisco Chronicle – A reaction to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claim at Columbia […]
Inflation – American Consumers Fighting Back
If you believe some of the negative financial press the American masses are a fickle mob of spendthrifts that mindlessly blow everything they have and then some without a care. In contrast to that, I offer a story from the Wall Street Journal: Food Makers Struggle To Pass On High Costs High commodity prices have […]
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