Million Mile & 100 MPG Cars. In today’s chapter we take on some of the most vexing design-balancing problems of all. Though not limited to cars, the design tradeoffs are easy to understand and they translate well to other transport modalities such as ocean-going vessels and airplanes, as our quest for “Good old-fashioned American Quality” … Read More
Tons of ham radio operators will be planning for your Hard Grid Down (HGD) and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) laced future this coming weekend with something called Field Day. Sponsored by the American Radio Relay League (https://arrl.org) the event had its roots in 1933 when a bunch of hams decided to “take to the field” with … Read More
On the positive side of things, the Fed meeting kicks off this morning and we don’t expect them to lower rates for a month or two. If that’s in the cards, we don’t expect it until the July meeting, or later – like in the fall. We may really need it, then. And Dow futures … Read More
In his book “Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life, marketing whiz Rory Sutherland makes the observation (a couple of chapters in) that a survey showed nearly 70 percent of people would take a pay cut proportionate to getting two more weeks of vacation per year. Do … Read More
The Trouble with McMansions. Today with launch into some interesting aspects of trying to nail-down just what “quality” is in homes. No, it’s not 2″ deep well-padded deep splush white carpet. First, though, a couple of headlines and a look at the charts. Bean up and on to our…. More for Subscribers ||| SUBSCRIBE NOW! … Read More
We start off with the ultra short course on survival gardening today because it could become an important issue one day. If You Don’t Have a Green Thumb, read on: Lots of people tell us they don’t have one. We usually beg to differ. There is a simple checklist that can keep you out of … Read More
We begin this morning’s epistle with a note about children in newsrooms. For, when a big story with significant historical echoes (;like the tanker attacks story) is breaking around them, the young ones, lacking experience and context, often miss the point. And, so it is, we rely on the US Naval Institute (here) to provide … Read More
The late Washington-state Senator Henry M. Jackson told me – in about 1970 or 71 “Keep your eye on the Straight of Hormuz.” When it closes, the world will get involved in a Middle East war that could quickly escalate to global and nuclear. Fast forward to overnight: “Two oil tankers struck in suspected attacks … Read More
Big report today: Well over 5,000 words plus 29 graphics so it may load a bit slow… What we have is a complete step-by-step on how to put in some home deep water culture (DWC) hydroponics and a big discussion in the chart section about whether the G-20 is driving global stock prices, or whether … Read More
Forensic economics for breakfast today. If any of this makes your head hurt, Ure right, it should probably have been put on our Peoplenomics.com subscriber site. We’re putting it up here because we really don’t wish to be right in our outlook. Let’s start up with a few basics: The big selling point of Bitcoin … Read More
Prediction and “the News” are on the menu this morning. This follows both a major financial story – namely, the temporary solution to the Mexico tariffs being levied – and an incredibly interesting vivid dream that was posted to the Peoplenomics subscriber side Saturday morning at our usual 8 AM posting time. This was some serious … Read More
OMG…hard to believe this. Yet Another Building Collapse. Yeah…so this happened on Sunday in early afternoon in New York City and is headlined on WABC as “Partial Building Collapse in Manhattan…:” This may only make sense to Peoplenomics subscribers, but I had a “building collapse dream” on Friday night (early Sat AM). This was (I … Read More
Got to say, with the unrelenting censorship of views on a certain large social(ist) media platform, a lot of moderately conservative types to conservative liberal types can be found here freely discussing a lot of interesting topics. Invasion by Mexico, them wanting states back (Revolcion 3.0) and the ICE dumpings in cities that are far … Read More