For subscribers, click over to: https://peoplenomics.com/inside/pod1.mp3 For logon issues, see the Subscriber Help sections on the Peoplenomics site. If you’re not a subscribers…why is that? Happy New Years from the East Texas Outback… George, Elaine, and the cats (Zeus wants a mention, damn cat…)
Just out Housing numbers: YEAR-OVER-YEAR The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 3.3% annual gain in October, up from 3.2% in the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in at 1.7%, up from 1.5% in the previous month. The 20-City Composite posted … Read More
Some 2019 restrospective in the first section this morning. But, if time is short for you, skip down to “Today’s Real News” – a big headline and you can’t miss it. New post around 8:15 with the Housing data, so check back. We’ll serve-up this morning’s “rasher of news and comment” but first, a few … Read More
If this was a sci-fi flick, rather than (nominal) “real life” someone would say “Aye, sensors on full, extended- range, Captain …” We have no idea, of course, where the next financial photon torpedo will come from. Although launch sites in Hungary, North Korea, China, and Brussels are all suspect. We do have a handful … Read More
Since we’ve been writing about “UrbanSurvival” long before any of the “Johnny-come-lately’s” on the web (starting in ’98), our views on what’s “adequate prepping” have moderated a bit, over time. Here are the simplest, cheapest, and best ways we can think of to increase your personal preparedness in 2020. Spend $10-bucks a person on bottled … Read More
Even approaching 71, no shortage of learning to do – much of it involuntarily. Life keeps changing and one needs to “keep ahead of it.” An interesting example is the growing complexity of DAW (digital audio workstation) software. Occasioned by our upcoming first Peoplenomics Podcast which is estimated to be out New Years Eve. Fortunately, … Read More
No, you don’t need to know Morse Code to be an effective ham radio operator. SKN comes on New Years Eve. It’s “Straight Key Night.” We’ll get into that, in a second. First a pitch for learning Morse code. Light signaling (silently), having another way to communicate in event of a stroke or voice stifling … Read More
A couple of items on the stock market, best taken visually. One is the overall view of how periodic advances and declines in the stock market line-up in similar ways. Nice way of saying “All collapses are self-similar” to one degree or another… OK, so.. When is “The Top” Here? This is a “What number … Read More
Sure, there are a number of “economic stories” we could lead with this morning. But, weekly variances in mortgage applications at a time when part of the nation has been in the deep freeze and it’s a holiday week to boot? Seriously? Of, later on, yet-another forecast of “investor confidence” will be out…but we don’t … Read More
First, a Merry Christmas and a very happy New Years, particularly our Peoplenomics.com subscribers. While we won’t have a long report this morning, we wanted to keep everyone updated on how this “replay of 1929” is going and toss around a few “where does it all end?” ideas. The short answer? When the people who’ve … Read More
This being Christmas Eve Day, we have a lot to cover so I’ll keep the commentary light and the information density high. Market’s Nearing Peak? But when it comes, no one will know. Main thing to hold in mind is that when you look back a year ago, and see that the market lows came … Read More
Breaking: Durable Orders Crumble From the press release: “New orders for manufactured durable goods in November decreased $5.0 billion or 2.0 percent to $242.6 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced today. This decrease, down two of the last three months, followed a 0.2 percent October increase. Excluding transportation, new orders were virtually unchanged. Excluding defense, … Read More
Life in the city is grand. Everything convenient, all services close-at-hand. Yet there’s something special about holidays in the woods… Let’s start with the food part. Since there are only two of us this time around, we’re not doing a big meal for Christmas. Honestly, it looks like a toss-up between a couple of slabs … Read More