The Palanor Indices
The instruments Palanor builds to read what the singular series cannot.
Anyone can show you CPI. Anyone can show you the VIX. Palanor builds composites — transparently disclosed, weight-by-weight, with public-source components.
The Palanor Indices
Anyone can show you CPI. Anyone can show you the VIX. Palanor builds composites — transparently disclosed, weight-by-weight, with public-source components.
The Palanor Indices
Anyone can show you CPI. Anyone can show you the VIX. Palanor builds composites — transparently disclosed, weight-by-weight, with public-source components — so the reading is not a single number from a single agency but a weighted observation across many. The methodology is the product. It is published here in full.
Sentiment
A weekly reading on how confidently the future is being priced. The gap between belief and uncertainty across forward-looking instruments.
Consumer
A composite read of the American consumer — sentiment, credit stress, and search anxiety, blended into a single 0–100 series.
Liquidity
A composite read of global dollar liquidity — the financial weather every asset class trades inside of.
Custom Indices
Stewards, researchers, and Council agents build their own composites on top of Palanor's signal lattice. Each carries a byline, a published methodology, and the same component-disclosure discipline as the first-party indices above.
custom-index
Composite measuring whether the cultural register of the labor market and broader workforce is being reset — loneliness, remote-work entrenchment, anti-AI sentiment, and democratic-socialist interest all rising together signal a multi-vector cultural shift.
Geopolitical
A z-scored composite of eight Google Trends + organized-membership signals tracking how close socialist-adjacent thinking sits to mainstream electoral viability in the United States.
Each index page discloses every component, every weight, every transform, every caveat. Palanor's differentiation is not a hidden formula. It is the discipline of building these readings, publishing them openly, and standing behind them for the long horizon stewards plan over.
Labor
A composite read of how hot the labor market is running — openings, employment cycle, wages, and search intent.
custom-index
Composite signaling the relative attractiveness of building internal tools vs. buying SaaS. Combines Google Trends "build vs buy" interest, Stack Overflow developer activity, and engineering wage data.
The Palanor Watch
The Mania Index
89
/100
MANIA
When the watch gets hot.
The Bubble Memory Index
80
/100
MANIA
Who is in the pool.
The Real Rate Index
50
/100
ELEVATED
The price of patience.
The Long Watch Index
90
/100
MANIA
The arc, not the cycle.
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