by Joe Godfrey | Jun 15, 2019 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
The US stock market volatility index is sometimes called the fear index. Usually when the VIX is spiking to new highs, investors are bailing out and other indexes are tumbling. We had one of these events last last year – after a jittery October and November,...
by Joe Godfrey | May 21, 2019 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
I grew up in a river town – Cincinnati – then moved to a lake town – Chicago – and then to an ocean town – Encinitas, CA just north of San Diego. I just started listening to David McCullough’s new book The Pioneers and was happy to...
by Joe Godfrey | Apr 23, 2019 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
These days it’s call throwing shade. When I came up, good jazz musicians had a nice-but-direct way of telling wanna be jazz musicians that they weren’t up to the task – “don’t give up your day gig.” Dr. Graeme Smart has a day gig...
by Joe Godfrey | Mar 18, 2019 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
I have been flying my Bellanca Viking for 29 years now. I have had two unexplained events – one electrical and one combustion – both in day VMC. I was alone for both. The electrical event was on approach to a central California airport with a tower. I had...
by Joe Godfrey | Feb 16, 2019 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Phoebe Snow’s recording of “No Regrets” is on one of my playlists, and I can’t hear the song without thinking of the Milky Way ad where the distracted tattoo artist gives her customer something to – uh, regert. Sometimes engine data will...
