UKR: Bio Lies, a Novel Plot and What Goes Up Goes CPI

You may not have much of a memory when comes to bio-weapons development.  Maybe it was “burned out” of you in the Covid debacle. Yet there exist many claims that the US has – through corporate proxies – engaged in bioweapons work in Ukraine and other FSU states. For example, in 2018 a detailed report, … Read More

The Knowledge Preservation Crisis

If you aren’t up to speed on corporate knowledge preservation. you may not be prepared for this weekend. That’s when, according to reports, Russia will be making many changes to its Internet.  And that means the whole information-space theater of war is about to be wiggled.  Could things break? If you have already transitioned to … Read More

Trade and NFIB Data, Guillotine Trading

Although the US market broke to lower (recent) lows Monday, our optimism about America seems likely to be buoyed.  At least, so say the early futures. I’ve discovered a new method of investing, lately.  It’s called the guillotine trading method.  Works really simple:  You invest, market promptly heads the other direction, and you’re account balance screams … Read More

$2,000 Gold, Screaming Oil, Dimming Prospects

Our future is Fertilizer.  Which takes a bit of explaining. When I said, a week or so back, that the market was rotating into position where a “make or break” was due – and a visit to the bottom of an obvious trend channel becomes likely. Today – and maybe carrying into tomorrow – we … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: Shop & Garden Notes, Tools

Mood-setting and motivation:  Russian war in world’s ‘breadbasket’ threatens food supply | AP News Let’s talk first about Design Creep. Although we have yet to eat a single plant from our 20-foot by 10 add-on Garden Room off the recording studio, it has sure been a pleasure in terms of “build.” Honestly, some of the … Read More

The Depression No One Sees (Yet)

My discussion (premature to the narrative) of a 55 MPH speed limit in Friday’s Urban column caused some consternation.  “Oh, Ure has sold out to the Dark Side!” and sentiments like “Ure’s an idiot – we did that already…” we typical. My intent was not to disavow speed.  I’m an adrenaline junkie from the get-go.  … Read More

OSINT Friday: Jobs & Growth, Nuke Power Play, Odessa

We can frame today’s report this way: “Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is an intelligence that is produced from publicly available information and is collected, exploited, and disseminated in a timely manner to an appropriate audience for the purpose of addressing a specific intelligence requirement.” Although Life under Joe (Biden, not Stalin, at least not yet) seems superficially … Read More

FinCrazy: Job Cuts, U.I. Filings, Productivity

Since we have FinTech, and Fin[whatever], why not FinCrazy and FinNuts? Evidence abounds.  It just ain’t called that – yet.  Trust me on this: FinFuk will be a word in 5-years, or less. High Level Downers We – hapless souls caught in skin bags for this adventure – watch as the world devolves toward a … Read More

PWP: Personal War Planner

A broad-spectrum discussion of war today:  Causes, motivations, and public reaction.  But more importantly of all, personal anticipatory activities that can improve the odds of living through this most stressful of periods. In addition to a little “news from the front” what we’ll focus on will be broadly applicable when the “next shoe drops.”  That, we … Read More

Social and Economic War Gradients

There really isn’t too much interesting news flow today, except for The War, of course.  But even here, the stories (like Hollywood Halts Releases In Russia, Including ‘The Batman’) strike us as childish.  Just like throwing out good vodka. You see, the real story here – as seen from the East Texas Outback – is … Read More

Bordering Madness, Trade Data, Jobs Week Roulette

We held onto a short position with our personal Gambler’s Stake over the weekend.  The core logic of which was the topic of the ChartPack on Peoplenomics.com.  The main idea, though, came down to “playing the Gap” between the U.S. Aggregate Index Oscillator and the Global Oscillator. You see, Friday, the Red (US line) screamed higher … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: Automatic Algorithmic Gardening?

War?  Victory Gardens?  Biden Gardens? We’re in the timeframe when a “survival garden” such as we began working on in November of last year, may not seem so far-fetched, after all. The parts have continued to roll in for the highly experimental automatic veggie garden. Another small piece of the project this week was the … Read More

A “Big Moves” Trading Indicator

There is always opportunity in the midst of chaos, even with our Aggregate Trading indicator.  We used it to spot in advance the big move which would come later in the session. And we took snapshots of how it evolved over time. Very useful indicator. This morning, we discussion not only this useful tool, but … Read More