If you sneak out of work early today, you won’t be the only one. Millions will head out for what’s functionally the real start of summer, regardless of what the “official” calendars might claim about June 21st. The price of gas is over $4-bucks now in a lot of places, and in New York over … Read More
First, do the household stuff. Then do the necessary work (Peoplenomics for tomorrow, for instance). Then revise the UrbanSurvival website, and THEN do some fun stuff on eBay and in the shop… The first few items are not too exciting: As soon as the column is done this morning, it will be time to jump … Read More
Hard to make an educated guess at markets over the next few days. You see, there’s a calendar versus the cycles versus the news battle to be considered. The calendar view suggests that often (but far from always) the markets will get a pop to the upside because of rampant optimism. America is still here … Read More
We’ve had some fun on the Peoplenomics side of the house, kicking around the pluses – and minuses – of Going Rural. Some subscribers (like Mark) make some legit arguments against it on points like airports. Besides, Big Cities is where the money is. But, my point is a lot of those shiny deal points are … Read More
This morning, a look at why there is a case to be made for many companies to “go rural” and get out of Big Cities. This is not just about socialist-leaning cities like Seattle – where they want to go after Jeff Bezos for slowing down Amazon expansion due to city plans to slap a … Read More
Pencil in the Dow closing up 50 as a likely target and take the rest of the day off. There’s damn little to drive things higher, or lower, from here so it’s hardly worth watching. As you know, I have an odd way of looking at markets. I look at an Aggregate. Usually, it’s a … Read More
One of the highlights of our trip up to Tulsa (other than the Tom Jones concert in Monday’s column) was to learn my friend Robin Landry – besides being an investment ace, also had a serious film career in college. If you click over to YouTube here, you can see the 1972 movie 30 Dangerous … Read More
The Futures this morning point to the Dow moving up 230-points, or thereabouts, at the open. But, before you run out and buy into the long side, a couple of words of caution, if we may? For one, no matter how impressive the intraday run is, we need to see an even higher close before … Read More
Always wanted to do another concert review. Here it comes… Back in the day, when Ure was a rock & roll newscaster on the AM side of the late KOL in Seattle (which went on as KMPS), it was Patrick McDonald who did the concert reviews. Pat was so good that he became the head … Read More
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A quick note this morning that should come as good news to the bulls. Despite the HUGE longwave economic mess we’re in, the latest H.6 Money Stocks report from the Federal Reserve shows how the Fed has deftly reduced their money print rate at M1 to prevent the market from prematurely peaking. And as the … Read More
This morning as Elaine and I head for the Tom Jones’ concert in Tulsa tomorrow night. Elaine’s thrilled about the trip, but a bit less so with my planning. Since selling our old Beechcraft, I haven’t been able to get “flight planning” out of my mind….Besides, I go for the woo-woo. (Continues below) Something … Read More
In long wave economics, our main forte, we are in a lazy holding pattern. The market could continue on up, but to do so would require the recent highs of the past week be exceeded and we don’t see that at the open this morning with Dow futures down 25 and broader indicators saying it should … Read More