Two weeks plus one day from now, do you know what happens? Mercury Retrograde! Here is why this is important, so follow along: When you are young, still think you are immortal and untouchable, you hear stories about “Mercury in retrograde” and you think: “Aw, that’s a load of horseshit.” Middle age is when your mind … Read More

This morning’s Peoplenomics opens with ChartPack: Launch Time? Markets have the smell of launch fever in the air, but that does not mean we are throwing caution overboard. The SpaceX buzz, oil/Iran headlines, and the coming Fed meeting all arrive at once, and our 1929 comparison work still leaves room for a push higher into … Read More

Even the paranoid in today’s (somewhat insane) world need a day off, once in a while.  This may be a good candidate – provided nothing silently or invisibly inbound from left field, or appearing as a flock of black swans doesn’t decide to land and spoil our most mundane of Friday outlooks. We will start at … Read More

Hell of a drop in the markets Wednesday. While futures pricing hinted at a possible “dead cat bounce today” let’s cut the bullshit and tell it “like it is.” The quality of life – as measured by after-obligations, true disposable income – hasn’t been moving much. America offshored its industrial base under the eyes of … Read More

Back in January, I did a Peoplenomics piece called “The Digital Anasazi,” looking at how once-great civilizations actually come apart. Not usually from one battle, one bad leader, or one bad economic number — but from too many stresses thrown into the blender at once. That is why today’s subscriber work updates the “news between” … Read More

Today’s “Urban Nav Check” will be nose down, all the way. At least, until it isn’t. Markets Likely to Discount Data Warring Belief Waves have their own set of rules  One of which is that when a Big Belief is under attack, all news may be ignored. But, only for a while.  Today’s poster child data … Read More

Navigating the over-hyped world isn’t too hard, but you need to understand that the picture doesn’t come into focus unless you look through the right lens. We like the long historical down to close-in data.  And here, we can see it clear as hell.  They – the financial powers that be – the pricks who … Read More

Most people think artificial intelligence means robots replacing humans. Not in our greenhouse. Our AI gardener doesn’t carry a shovel, pull weeds, haul water, prune tomatoes, or pick cucumbers. What it does do is remember. It remembers soil conditions, fertilizer applications, temperatures, flowering patterns, planting dates, expected yields, and the thousand little details that leak … Read More

Because we cover so much, and Wednesday’s PN headline last week didn’t focus on it, here’s what one of the PDFs inside the PN report read: That “change vector call” got real this week when NBC picked up the story from an X-post: Only days after we began asking whether server statistics were pointing toward … Read More

This weekend’s Peoplenomics may be one of the strangest—and potentially most important—research reports we’ve published in years. It begins with an AI (Alexa+) making an apparently meaningless mistake during an evening conversation. Instead of correcting it, we treated the anomaly like a scientist would: not as an error, but as a clue. What followed became … Read More

There is almost too much to cover this morning, but I want to cover the most important parts so if I get a little “texty” and “bullet-pointy” please hang in because there is a ton-o-useful about to slap your screen. Forget “news” for a minute.  This is raw future condensing into locally real. Frontier Operators and … Read More

Today’s UrbanSurvival column begins as a piece about information overload and “News Rehab,” but underneath it is really a piece about attention economics. That’s a much bigger subject. Paint The Tape! Dow — and the rest of the market — finally broke Bull Fever Wednesday as the Belief Wave that has been setting statistical records … Read More