Extreme Summer, 2022 Edition is slowly moving towards conclusion. Nowhere near fast enough for us, though. Our kitchen was attacked by ants this week. Elaine came over to the office sputtering “Hoards of ants have invaded the kitchen!” Sure enough, yes they had. However, hardly the end of the world. Essentially, they were along the … Read More
With our book on do-it-yourself home power now up on Amazon, most of the week here was focused on the next book – The 100-Year Toaster. Not surprisingly, no one has yet bought a single copy of Power in the Second Depression. It’s free on the Peoplenomics.com website in the Reader Bookshelf section. The 100-Year Toaster … Read More
Ever get tempted to buy one of those inexpensive Chinese model sailing ships on eBay? Great value – way cool. The one on the right there is a good value if you want an introductory project to real model-making skills. $11.33 each plus $3.36 for a SpeedPAK from China. The seller is m.cloud-2 out of Shanghai. … Read More
When TSHTF a lot of people will be in the dark wondering “What happened?” A few years ago, we presented a multipart series on keeping the lights on and the beer cold as economic collapse came stumbling across the world. Today – in 160-pages of downloadable PDF eBook for subscribers, a discussion of D.C. power … Read More
The market is set to continue its slide today ahead of the inflation report as CPI will be center stage tomorrow. In fact, as of 6AM today, our Elliott and trend channel view of the market looks like this from November 8th of last year right up until this morning: Pick a Fake Money! There … Read More
Wednesday morning get braced: the Consumer Price Index (inflation gauge) will be released. Sure, this morning is quiet and all. But many pieces are moving just below the surface. Dow futures down 150-ish. Like Elon Musk blowing out of the Twitter acquisition this weekend. As we’ve been following this, looks to us like there are … Read More
Who needs Russia and Ukraine when drought is coming and famine is in the wings? As so often happens, our political tools in office are trying to fix the barn after it’s on fire and the horses are gone. The world needs water – because without it, kiss off crops and light the fuse of … Read More
Economics is much like meteorology, we reckon. Today’s report is as much for me (personally) as it is for subscribers as we line up the “match points” between the Great Depression and what’s evolving. Rather interesting exercise to try next time you can’t sleep and it’s 2 AM. Really ought to try it. Many have … Read More
Our Daily News-to-Use Consumer Tips first. Amazon has a 47% off deal today on broad (chisel tip) black Sharpies. Four pack under $5 bucks. Why? We get the odd box from Amazon and elsewhere around here. So we have taken (when not burning trash) (burn ban is about due, thanks to fire risk out here in … Read More
There’s not a hell of a lot to yammer about this morning. So let’s! We could talk about real estate changing hands in eastern Ukraine I suppose: Russia-Ukraine war: Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk being ‘levelled’, says Luhansk governor, as Russian shelling intensifies. Real estate values seem to be dropping? Or, we could talk about the Israelis … Read More
Play before Work, I always say. (But never actually do.) Where is the Welder Review??? There’s a “dog ate my welder” story in here… Today was scheduled to be a review of that Chineseum knock-off of the Smith Little Torch. That one retails on the Zon for (take a look). While the Chineseum was under $25-bucks – … Read More
(Part 1 of today’s report. Part 2 (Housing report) will be up about 8:15 AM Central) Time to pick up the remnants of the 3-day weekend and roll back to the job – if you’re not yet in one of the Dole Classes. Let’s do a little Future Tripping and lay out some of the … Read More
[Exceptionally long (for the free side). But go ahead, take some time and relax with it… Holiday, and all.] Today’s coffee klatch of day-traders and tool sluts is now in order! Our usual dose of news, but then back out to our shop as the weekend enters its final hours. (Gimme a chorus of “Damn!) … Read More