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Not an especially long report this morning, but decidedly important. It’s because of how world event and markets are shaping up over the coming30-days. This morning, after a few headlines, a detailed look at the charts and what they may be telling us about “future-yet-to-come…” More for Subscribers       ||| SUBSCRIBE NOW!       |||   Subscriber Help Center

When comes to prepping, people write all kinds of hogwash on the net.  Sure, I could sight-in a Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifle it I had to.  Or, I’d call my friend Steve who teaches the fine art of “reaching out and touching” when he’s not senior-level IT’ing. On the other hand, people don’t put … Read More

The Consumer Price Index is out just now, but before we get into it, a couple of “core” problems to be considered so you take the data in context. The first point has to do exactly with the “core.”  The Federal Reserve uses a variant of the CPI called “core.”  It’s the increase (or decline) … Read More

The stock market is already AT NEW HIGHS – it just hasn’t hit the news yet because individual indices – like the Dow – have not confirmed. That’s where our Peoplenomics.com subscribers have a leg-up on other investors.  You see, we use something I developed long-ago to get at the Truth of Markets – which … Read More

Yes, that’s right – the Blow-off Top may be here – and it could be a doozy! So we have a couple of things on this “Make Money the Old-Fashioned Way” checklist today:  In the short-term, an “averaging top” idea.  Then an in-depth in our ChartPack with some of the “Golem” notes.But then, in the … Read More

I recently sat down for a few minutes with a young man – just going off to college for his medical profession specialty –  to coach him a bit on how to succeed in the world of higher ed.  Two things were the focus of our talk:  Speech and the “mechanicals.”  Those are the “business … Read More

In my 2012 book, “Broken Web The Coming Collapse of the Internet” I made a remarkable assertion. When America gets into the next economic Depression (just ahead, wait for it…) there will be a massive government drive to take over the Internet.  In fact, to emphasize my thinking at time, here’s a piece of… Chapter … Read More

“What’s a PWoP?”  [ PWoP, N. pronounced pee-wop] That’s shorthand around here for People (or Person) Without Purpose.  And, it’s a mighty-fine topic to take up on a Monday morning when so much of the daily news-flow, here in the summer doldrums, is like reading an amateur’s attempt to re-write the always-entertaining Hints from Heloise.  … Read More

We’re coming up to the time of year when people begin to unload motorhomes – cheap.  Fair-weather RV’ers look at depreciation and the cost of insurance and maintenance in winter.  Best deals?  Likely after deer season.  First week of January, or shortly after in many states. I have been watching the prices of them closely … Read More

“The What?” Art of Making Money, of course! Since we are still in the lazy part of summer – and we expect the market to be screaming to new highs in the coming few weeks, we will focus  – as all natural-born gamblers would – on the art of taking money from the house. After … Read More

Short course in business:  6 P’s. Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance. If you are new to the idea of “prepping” rest assured the field is infinitely large and totally overloaded with mostly useless crap – especially on the web.  I say this, having started UrbanSurvival in 1997.  In the 20+ years I have been writing … Read More

One of the things beaten into my head in grad school back-in-the-day was to always look at Standard Accounting Ratios (SARs). A fine example is when looking at long-term data, you don’t go back and look at how many people were working last month, or even last year.  You go back and pencil out the … Read More

We find ourselves in an interesting kettle of fish today with the markets taking the Fed decision Wednesday NOT to move rates as a negative.  Forget the fact that most experts were predicting no move.  That doesn’t matter to a world “on edge” about the Middle East, trade discussions, and, oh yeah, the ongoing left-wing … Read More