’23 and Thee

The human genome is in the driver’s seat and that’s not something to look forward to in the coming year.  2023 has a ton of very dangerous trends converging in H1 (Q1 + Q2) and the odds of continuing to sink into a Second Depression are high. A look ahead including a longer-range planning view … Read More

Closing the Books on 2023: Not Very Good

A little “mood setting” is in order. Too many years as a rock & roll (and country) newscaster doing mainly mornings, teaches music first, then news. Perhaps “Wrap it Up” by Sam & Dave would work?  Or, perhaps, the “Long and Winding Road” would be better?  Well, to each their own. For us, Abba is more … Read More

Year-end Mini Rally – Reasonable Outlook for 2023

The market today will be starting (based on early futures) with a modest upside bias.  Which is due after the “downstroke” of the M that we posited earlier. Our outlook continues to expect a major decline in over-priced housing over the next six-months. Not to Be Conspiratorial But… My consigliere and I are both very worried … Read More

Global War in ’24?

Right.  But is that hours or the year 2024?  This morning we consider the structural problem of “quantum futuring” and ponder our simplistic views of probability over time contained in our language and thinking styles.. We don’t propose any novel new ways to approach such profound Truths – as what lays ahead for the upright … Read More

Housing Rollover Slowballs

As we’ve been telling you, with Housing loan rates in the 7.9 to 8.1 percent range (depending on military service, credit scores, lenders and yada, yada, we know that net cash to sellers is going down.  So, it’s only reasonable that prices would be along in kind. “NEW YORK, DECEMBER 27, 2022:  S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P … Read More

Decoding an M Week?

This might turn into an “M” week. That is, up at the open today (if futures hold – housing will pop first) but then petering out after the commercials get back from stuffing presents.  That may lead to the “downstroke” of the M’s middle around tomorrow and into Thursday.  But a pre-holiday frosting rally can’t … Read More

Breaking Insanity: Too Scary to Contemplate

With the WEF promoting their global corporate-communism style agenda – buzz worded as “stakeholder capitalism“ (where corporations extend the evil concepts of the Citizens United case worldwide), the failure of the Ultra Rich con to ramp Covid into Global Governance under corporate auspices failing, the next Big Fear Sell is edging toward nuclear war. Someone’s … Read More

2023: Our Post-Civilization Planner

Since I’ll be on Coast-to-Coast with George Noory, and since markets in the U.S. are taking this Boxing Day off, what better time to sit back with a fresh cup of coffee and ponder the three major agenda items that all 8-billion humans face a week from now when New Year’s Eve shows itself. The CLOCK IS … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: Cold Weather Lessons

Well, it all worked out: Styrofoam covers over the foundation vents.  These will come off when the weather warms to keep radon accumulation now. The “grow room greenhouse” worked great and even when it was on the backside of 8F for a few hours, we were holding over 40 in the greenhouse.  Tomatoes will still … Read More

Anti-Aging Playbook

Our Merry Christmas present for you is a list.  Of more than 30 distinct protocols and lifestyle actions that may extend your Life. This list will be made public on the UrbanSurvival.com website on Monday prior to my Monday night appearance on Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory. But since subscribers go to the “front on … Read More

Silpidity, Chill, Slide, Durables & Incomes – Whee!

It was a chilly 9° F when I began my commute to the palatial UrbanSurvival office today. The cross-country commute (65-feet from the greenhouse to shop door) was not quite as miserably cold as up north of us: My 74-years-in-the-making “news nose” did find one angle on the cold I haven’t read before:  The CO2 … Read More

Christmasy? GDP Figures, Dueling War Stats, Winds of Cold

The (super) early Futures pricing wasn’t showing much oomph prior to the GDP figures and the Chicago Fed data just out.  GDP first: “Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 3.2 percent in the third quarter of 2022, in contrast to a decrease of 0.6 percent in the second quarter. The … Read More

eBook: Planning to Build a House (Part 1)

You do know the “worst of times” is when you might actually have time for a big project, right? With the problems in the economy unfolding in the wake of last week’s Fed decision; and with more financial concerns about the period ahead, we step out of our usual “let’s make some money” reports to … Read More