By Paul Sankey
Published on January 25, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Greetings, Presumably you have power, if you are reading this. Good for you. I bought an emergency power pack yesterday: “Anker Portable Power Station SOLIX C300, 288Wh LiFePO4 Battery, 300W (600W Surge) 140W Two-Way Fast Charging, for Outdoor Camping, Traveling, and Emergencies (Solar Panel Optional)” so we should avoid an outage. Or get a three day outage that renders that wee power block absurdly under-sized. It cannot run a heater, for example, you need 1,000W …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on January 18, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Hello All, Mid-January… these are the hard yards on Wall Street – no let up until mid-April. It was the New York winter that broke the Occupy Wall Street protestors in 2011, and they wimped out in November. We workers kept grinding. Wintry mix today in Brooklyn Heights, brisk weather is forecast for Tuesday: 14° low, or -6° to Europeans. MLK Day Federal Holiday tomorrow, which seemingly nobody in Houston follows, at least not in …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on January 7, 2026 at 9:53 AM
My 6am morning coffee run this morning was shrouded in a Dickensian fog, dark figures in dark coats, streetlights almost candle-weak. It was hard to not find that meaningful in today’s bewildering markets. The Fog of War (a great film, highly recommended, on Kennedy/Johnson Defense Secretary Robert McNamara). The first surprise was not the removal of Maduro and his wife, but the lack of positive momentum for María Corina Machado, who had appeared to be …
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