This whole “Woke” thing is on the rocks. But, sadly, not giving up without a fight. Case #1: Lightfoot Out As we told subscribers: “Woke Got Fired.” As The Hill reports: The Memo: Lightfoot is latest Democrat to fall to anger over crime. Nor will Lightfoot likely be the last. We hear from people in Oregon, … Read More
While in the shower Monday morning, one of those “Doh!” moments hit me. I won’t spoil the (deep) thought, but it explains nearly 100 percent of what’s going on both socially and economically around the world today. If you want to understand news headlines, read Joseph Tainter. Which we will lay out – vastly simplified … Read More
You could almost hear the ice breaking under the weight of bloated markets this week. But the REAL trouble is apparent in this morning’s ChartPack where our rhymes with 1929 work says things are likely to go polyphonic. Plus, we’ll kick off with a “woo-woo” commentary – first person – and tell you about one … Read More
Wherein we put on our Casino hat (which looks suspiciously like green eyeshades) and take a whack at beating the House. Because there are times when crossing trends do matter. Even though we botch specific bets badly (don’t ask about being stopped out Tuesday) we still love matching wits with the Odds. Of course, more … Read More
As the Global brinksmanship continues, some useful thinking about Warstyles is due. While it’s said that “generals fight the last war over again” we see with the recent Party Favors War (PFW) that the guests in the Next War will have a considerably different UX (user-experience) than previous encounters. So much has changed, and more … Read More
At times like this – and the extremely dangerous period from next week through June – managing risk will be of paramount importance. The U.S. economy looks good on paper. But as many have reported recently, it’s actually too good when labor participation doesn’t seem to add up. Toss in holding Social Security and Medicare … Read More
Although we are able to snipe occasional lunch money in this pig of a stock market, the amount of real Truth out there is getting harder to find. Data! Market futures slipped a bit on this. Meanwhile: Do I believe Labor Department data “Series Id: LNS12000000”? Because if you did believe it, you’d be agreeing … Read More
On the surface, this promises to be a fairly quiet week, data-wise. The news flow is less than inspiring, because the “shoot down” of the Chinese weather or surveillance balloon has turned everyone in Washington into even bigger Buffoons than before. Sounds impossible, we’ll admit. Tomorrow we’ll get a taste of international goods pricing, but remembering … Read More
Fine tuning of prepping is in the works following the major ice storm in East Texas this past week. Today, a discussion of what we got right and what we got wrong. Very interesting “school” the universe provides! Plus, in our ChartPack, that alternate count of the (Elliott) wave structure from a few weeks back … Read More
Check back for the Housing report in a few minutes. Employment costs and more in a sec, too, (scroll down) but let’s start lightly… Quoting Ure You know why we don’t put our Peoplenomics.com content out in the public eye, right? Because we offer some really useful ideas over there. Here’s an exact quote from Saturday … Read More
A “two brains are better than one” report for Subscribers today as G.A. Stewart of The Age of Desolation website and I go looking for the methods behind Nostradamus. Which only sounds quirky until you realize just how much of humankind’s future is laid out before us in a multiplicity of formats. Some as ancient … Read More
Where to make the Ure family’s last stand? Or, what’s the future of Big Cities….really? These get to be very important things for a head of household to consider. Families being teams, there’s no time like the present to “step out of time” and look a ways down the railroad tracks toward what’s ahead. Many … Read More
I’ve been doing a lot of work on Ure’s personal taxes this week. It’s the time of year when a collection of red folders come out and various tax forms go into the folder after being entered in the “tax working directories” with backups, data dumps, and the odd spreadsheet. The best single tool anyone can … Read More