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I came in from the shop, where I’ve been going through the woodpile.  As I explained last week, this is not something to be taken lightly. There are now four kinds of wood in the Ure household. One is scheduled for construction projects.  This wood is generally, or more feet in length, free of nails, … Read More

The headlines are an odd assortment this morning:  One of the big ones features the Dow showing a 119 point rally in the works, per the futures, as we hit the pixels. But beneath it all, we see some signs of weakness not to be under-estimated.  While it’s too early to talk about damage from … Read More

193 pages.  181 footnotes. 4-weeks of every waking minute outside of Urban and Peoplenomics.  And now the BIG problems begin. Dimensions Next Door will not be ready for proofreading for a couple of more weeks because the book laid out some directions to potential intellectual property (patents) and I need to get them done and … Read More

The recent outbreak of weather (and seismic) events, forest fires, and so on, has us thinking about the best use of money. If you have prepped as long as we have, the cases of ammo, buckets of food, barrels of water, and all the rest is really overkill. But if you’re one of those people … Read More

Gosh, yesterday I was telling you how there was a case in current market action for there to be some recovery in the markets and, should it all hold how we could go on to new highs. That would be based on “good news” which was being priced into the market. Then something happened in … Read More

I have offered for years that one of the sure-fire markers of the arriving Second Great Depression will be the increasing regulation of the Internet. When it comes, and I spelled out the case for it in one of my books (Broken Web) that it will have to, one of the first area’s I’d like … Read More

The Wikipedia entry sees all, explains all, about this morning’s column: “Carnac the Magnificent was a recurring comedic role played by Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. One of Carson’s most well-known characters, Carnac was a “mystic from the East” who could psychically “divine” unknown answers to unseen questions.” Thing is, based … Read More

With my consigliere due to show up at Uretopia in less than a month, we have gone into the “deep cleaning” mode around the ranch.  If my writing has been slightly unhinged lately, it is likely due to the big domestic changes underway. The good thing about living on a 40-foot sailboat for 10+ year … Read More

We will often use the “thinking tool” of a purely hypothetical trans-governmental entity we call Directorate 153 in order to frame certain discussions that would seem highly improbably, absent a cohesive organizing force. Once you get used to the concept of our “run-away think tank” ensconced in the hill just off to the side of … Read More

The reason economic depressions have such a common ending (War) is rather simple, when you think about it:  They kill people and break things. Credit the US.mils with one of the finest examples of military “Truth in Advertising” as you’ll find. With our shared future looking more like an economic depression to come,  as soon as … Read More

Since this is a “holiday” I wasn’t going to do a column this morning.  However, because of world events, tomorrow’s column may be a Peoplenomics subscribers only report, depending how the global markets look when I get up (far too early) Tuesday. Although our trading outlook has been bullish both in the short-term and long … Read More

This snip from Wikipedia will fill you in on all the historical groundwork to this being a holiday and anchor our following discussion: Beginning in the late 19th century, as the trade union and labor movements grew, different groups of trade unionists chose a variety of days on which to celebrate labor. In the United … Read More

A buddy of mine asked about buying a commercial “solar power source” for camping.  You know the story, got a new trailer, don’t want a big noise-maker. After I jumped up and down and screams “Don’t do it!” at the top of my lungs, it occurred to me that a lot of people in Post-Harvey … Read More