Here at UrbanSurvival.com, we like to be ahead of the trends. One of the ways we do this is by working 10-14 hours per day, seven days a week following pertinent trend-evolving news. The other way is sitting back with a solid generalization process in order that we truly understand the business implicates when a … Read More
Normally, I wouldn’t begin with an “I told you so…” But this is a BIGGY. Because it’s a splendid example of how you can sit out in the backwoods of East Texas and figure out things long before the rest of the world. In the beginning, there was Social Media. It sounded like fun, although … Read More
My buddy JB Slear, who’s my commodity guy, made an interesting observation here last week. He was asking if I had noticed a general decline in the amount of mail people are sending – and that includes junk mail. Frankly, I hadn’t given it much thought, but when a commodity broker (who has a 10-foot high banana tree in his living room, by the way) takes time out from trading and writing his traders column – well, that set me to thinking, even if it was the weekend. After going through some exercising of the brain cells and such, a startling fact arose: JB was Right!
Peoplenomics readers will remember our December 18, 2013 edition where I called into question whether social media would be around any longer than CB radio, Pet Rocks, or Hoola Hoops. Of course, all three are still around today. It’s just that they are no longer manias like they were, each, once upon a time. My concern about “social” was simple: I wondered whether it was much of a business model because it’s time-circular.
I moved most of the “hard news” (BS political crap) to the Coping section this morning since a keen insight into America’s death-dance deserved further elucidation. There really isn’t much to elucidate about. Trump still Tweets too much. Go read ‘em here. One a day (reviewed by staff in advance?) would be fine. Dances With … Read More
If my brain is still functioning (a matter of some dispute, I’ll admit) we should have Facebook earnings out after the close today. Not always, but often enough, when a company announces a new way to raise revenue a week or three before earnings, there is a reason. Might be an unspoken message like “If … Read More
Without giving away the whole story the problem for most of us is how to collect and assimilate sufficient information (when making investment decisions) so that we are not investing our life savings in a crooked game. Let’s just say the term “crooked” means investing where: a) Insiders have significant advance information or b) When pending orders are used by high frequency trading outfits to “front-run” trades and skim a bit off every legit trade or c) When significant information asymmetry is involved in release of information such that only certain classes of investors know about pending price moves, management decisions, or other key variable before us “dumb” investors.