1st: A Dough-Check Dow futures aren’t rising: Down over 100 with 60 min. to the open. Driven mainly by virus fears. Oh, and no-go on dough from the slow… We Warned You of This! For months we’ve been saying “Once past the Election, lawmakers in the District of Corruption would return to their well-trodden path: … Read More
Learning From Our Kids When you creep up into your 70s, one of the things you wonder is “Gee, if I were younger, how would I live in today’s world?” I’m fortunate. I consider the offspring: One daughter is a mental health counselor, working on a masters. The other daughter is going up the food … Read More
There are lots of us – old men of the web who have been writing about pendency of collapse for 20-years (or longer) – and a quiet consensus is beginning to form. It’s not evident unless you either subscribe to a lot of specialist future-oriented publications, or whether (as many newsletter writers do) you simply … Read More
Job & Trade Data Federal Employment report: “Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 245,000 in November, and the unemployment rate edged down to 6.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. These improvements in the labor market reflect the continued resumption of economic activity that had been curtailed due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) … Read More
TCDC’s Arrive A brief explanation on Peoplenomics, but condensed here: We’ve deployed some new tools to hone our trends-driving focus a bit on the things that matter most in the information space UrbanSurvival transits. One involves “Tag Cloud Driven Columns” [TCDC’s] because – as a mere human – it’s too easy to become distracted from things … Read More
One of our readers requested we turn a carefully tuned eye toward some of the longer-term outcomes of CV-19. Among the question is “What is it doing to the divorce rate?” We can already see a wide swath of “social destruction” because of the virus. Yet, in the longer term, is it possible that “What … Read More
You DID Pay Attention, Right? It seems to happen every month, but on which day is only semi-predictable. And the amount of month-end sell-off is uneven, as well… Still, as we have advised Peoplenomics.com subscribers, there is usually a day toward the end of the month when Big Money squares up with Banks (and whoever). … Read More