Peoplenomics is a packed one. Reader reaction to Department 546: The Ancient Children has been terrific — including one fellow who says the book cost him most of a perfectly good Monday because he couldn’t put it down. Book One remains free to subscribers, and Book Two — the conclusion — is finished and should … Read More
Markets are still “backing and filling” as the approach of inflation data (CPI from U.S. BLS) pops tomorrow. For now, there looks to be “hope in the hinterlands” – those regions where massive corporates don’t own it all – yet. Today’s poster child for hope? A press release: WASHINGTON, D.C. (Aug. 11, 2026) – The NFIB Small … Read More
Here’s how our Sunday news distillation ended: “Watch Quake Risks August 12 brings a total solar eclipse across Greenland, Iceland and Spain near the Perseid meteor peak. Skip the Internet hype and think instead about land tides, crustal loading and stress. Coffee gone. Shop calls. Today? M 7.4 – 5 km S of San José … Read More
Most of our Peoplenomics content is hard-edge, nonfiction, forward-looking economics and strategic planning with contingencie3s and preparedness agendas. Today? Hot times and laboring computers under the A/C bubble and created something new. I do love to write, so here is my newest fiction piece. An antiaging/conspiracy/legal techno-thriller. If you don’t have a $40/year subscription, the … Read More
Let’s go through the market simplifications first. Middle East is still a mess. However in our WW III is for weekends, so as not to topple the globalist financial empire, we should have some upward bias to markets. However… Last week’s Jobs data was on the skimpy side. So, our back-of-the-envelope says odds shade toward … Read More
A busy Sunday with coffee, so I’ve been tuning the automated news-surveillance fleet again — this time for faster reading. The structure remains 4/19/45: four major stories, up to 19 inside-page items, and at least 45 source scans. That gets me to the shop sooner. News Compressor: ON 1. Israel rejects Trump Gaza plan. Prime … Read More
Most people imagine World War III as a sudden event barrage: missiles, collapsing markets and armies moving everywhere at once. But what if modern great-power war is learning to move much more slowly—through drones, sanctions, energy pressure, shipping disruption, cyberwarfare and the steady depletion of money, weapons and political patience? In today’s Peoplenomics we look … Read More
“You are cleared for higher – at or above 67,000 – expect handoff around Labor Day.” If markets operated like FAA Air Traffic Controllers, that would be the cockpit communications brief. But not referencing altitude; instead it’s the Peoplenomics Aggregate Index. On that backroom version of “market radar” here’s what was showing before the job numbers … Read More
What Time is It? That’s one of the foundational questions we get into on the Peoplenomics side of the house ($40/yr), along with “getting the most” out of whatever system we’re all presently swimming in. So – if you’re wondering “Where’s the gain from the Iran War, and what does “win” look like in Ukraine?” pay attention. … Read More
The world financial system is beginning to carry the unmistakable scent of Global Synchronized Inflation—GSI. When every major government has access to the printing press, national problems can be papered over together, and that may be exactly what is pushing U.S. and global markets toward a possible late-summer blowoff. This morning’s ADP numbers offer the … Read More
We have a planned power outage this morning, so the column is super short and to the point. I will update the trade numbers around 7:30 AM Central. Markets Attempt Upside Breakout Markets closed Monday with the Dow up more than 700 points to a record, S&P 500 and Nasdaq also strongly higher, as oil … Read More
RRBS? Yes. Domain-walker shorthand for “re-rolled bull shit.” A sad but useful lesson is why we built a useful toolset, threw out ads, and began measuring coherence and not revenue at UrbanSurvival. The Backstory: A reliable reader offered a link in our Comments section Sunday to an article to a low cred website which was … Read More
Reader Note: Although ShopTalk Sunday has retired, I still caffeine-load and uptake change vectors. I use an assortment of tools (yes, including AI). Hundreds of sites & sources are scanned (OSINT – open source intelligence) and machine-compiled. It tends to be less emotionally draining, more fact-oriented, and helps us to keep one step ahead of … Read More