Holiday! Personal Income, Equity /= Equality

The biggest “news item” around here is the “down time” over this 2,3,4, or 5-day weekend for the Fourth of July celebrations.  Around here – living in the 56th largest county in Texas – at 1,078 square miles – most of it heavily forested in pines and mixed hardwoods – our biggest concern is fires.  … Read More

Corporate Profits, GDP, New UI Filings & Joe’s CPAP

Sure, Joe Biden gets a lot of things wrong.  BUT, when it comes to aging, the latest chapter in the American Political Psychodrama about Biden’s age seems headed into the ditch. You see, Joe Biden’s been wearing a CPAP machine and…so what? More than 8-million Americans use one of these devices.  Continuous Positive Airway Pressure … Read More

Seven Paradoxes of Technology

We’re focused today on the subtle – but world-wrecking differences – between Numerical Accounting and what we’d label Natural Accounting. OK, it may seem like an odd place to attempt changing the world from, but go with me on this for a second. Natural Accounting is about all possible measurements.  Climate, resource depletion, impact of … Read More

Good News About Nuclear War, Survival Shopping

If you think the flight of the Wagner Group’s leader from Russia ends the chance of nuclear war this summer, maybe you haven’t really been asking the right questions. Think back on your history.  And in particular read on the Trojan Horse – Wikipedia. Was Wagner Group a….. WW III Question Stack A starting point … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: Ham Radio Field Day Weekend

Ready for the Internet to Collapse? Of course not.  No one is. I mean picture a world where… Credit cards no longer work. Food and groceries can’t be delivered. Trains don’t run. Fire, medical, and police dispatch may not work. No social media work. Your bank’s offline until….who knows? Oh, and you’re locked in whatever … Read More

Charts Whisper a Grim Future

IF (and is still iffy) the top of Wave 2 is in – and the market continues sliding into a major Wave 3 Down – certain aspects and timing about Future become clear.  Because while there was much hype Friday about a “coup in Russia – like it was good news in some way – … Read More

DC Mud Wrestlers – Markets Getting Shaky?

CFNAI and the new Unemployment filings in a sec.   Top of the Day for us – and it is funny – trust me – is the latest… Wave of Irrational Congress It was just lovely to read and watch: Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Boebert a ‘Little Bitch’ on the House Floor.  Other reports were very similar … Read More

Life on Holiday “Hold”

G2 wandered through at quarter-to-four AM – on his way to “Cheat the Devil out of some Souls” in emergency medicine – some people actually have to work today… “Pretty much how it works, Dad.  Looks deceptively easy from the 30-thousand-foot level…” He was referring to a flowchart I’d been pondering: While difficult, it’s not impossible. Review … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: Buggy 3D Prints at Invention Alley

A short rap on Mental Topologies is a useful (Big Brain People) prequel today. “Regular” understanding of IQ as a semi-Gaussian normal distribution” among humans is oh so terribly flawed I could just wet myself. See, dimensioning humans (rendering concepts down to 2D) is hopeless Reductionism for the mentally short-changed. Multispectral Humanity becomes apparent as a … Read More

Biden’s (Internet) Hostage Crisis?

Digital preparedness has been one focus on the UrbanSurvival.com site this week.  Now the “reason why” is coming into focus with headlines today like U.S. Energy Dept gets two ransom notices as MOVEit hack claims more victims have been crossing. Normally, were it a corporation, there would likely have been a major uptick in Bitcoin … Read More

Market Rally? “Double Holiday Weekend” Driving…

In fairness – although no one has a clue about that, anymore – the market had already rallied to a potential key-reversal level Tuesday and Wednesday.  What many simply forgot was the old saying “Beware pre-holiday rallies.” One holiday is “unofficial” – Father’s Day  (like Mother’s Day), as notes Wikipedia: “The single most common date … Read More

Remedial Econ: War in Wave 3 Down? Retail Sales, Trantifa

Start time:  03:25 AM Ure is up early because the scent of Money is in the air.  Too early to be certain, so were glued to the “events horizon.” (news flows) Big Money on the short side of the market may arrive shortly because of where we are in long wave economics. “Where’s that?” Retail … Read More

Cause Economics

Two remarkable events are tabled this morning. Our BrainAmp spreadsheet projected Wave 2 Fibonacci high was hit at Tuesday’s close (within a point).  And in the other, we are increasingly concerned that non-banker socioeconomic tools are wresting control of our economic future away from those entrusted to manage it. Pretty serious stuff. Plus, we’ll look … Read More