News

Yes, there is some good news about debt.,  With the help of some input from my friend Jas Jain, we take a look at why Reaganonomics worked and why a Trump version of tax cuts could would be a disaster. Then we explore the one way Trump could “thread the needle just so…” and come … Read More

We open this week, as expected, with the markets set to open about flat. That much was fairly predictable. What is NOT predictable is what will happen next. Well, except for the Gallup Consumer numbers this morning and the Fed-Speaks going on this week. Still, it’s all really just foreplay compared to the September 20-21 … Read More

“Devil makes work for idle hands,” it is said. So I dutifully started to clean out the UrbanSurvival/Peoplenomics office Saturday. And by the time last night rolled around, little looked any different, but at least there was a Big Plan that was coming into view. You see, a lot of preppers have very little to … Read More

It’s a fine pastime – I mean if you don’t have friends, hobbies, schedules, kids, housework, a yard, oil change, or other real chores to do – trying to figure out the “next Big Thing” that will show up in the MSM news flow. Should be something big enough to cause panic, a sucking of … Read More

Seriously somber stuff to discuss on Labor Day, no doubt. But we are not as humans doing a credible job of either measuring the machines to humans ratios, nor are we tracking the machine thinking ratio to human thought ratio.  WTFU:  This is described by a single word.  Blindsided. And no, that post on FB … Read More

These two developments hardly seem like a good reason to get up at oh-dark-thirty on a semi-holiday morning, but I’ve never been a particularly smart fellow, when comes down to it… By about lunchtime, despite the electronic markets being open, in the surviving brick and mortar stock and bond joints, you should be able to … Read More

Since almost everyone has plans for the three-day weekend – which marks the nominal end of Summer in ‘Merica – I thought you’d like to see how it breaks-out using our Seven Systems of Life approach to things. As you’ll remember, these are Food, Shelter, Communications, Transportation, Energy, Finance, and Environment. This last is more … Read More

Reader Note: A reminder that we will be posting only one (all-purpose) column on Monday because of the Labor Day holiday and market’s being closed. We may do a Sunday Special if something strikes us as particularly interesting…so come by. First Whack at Jobs Every month, we go into the big Casino of finance and … Read More

Oh boy…time to call the UrbanSurvival Board of Directors into special session. If you got this far, you’re on Board so consider attendance mandatory. Elaine and I want to redo the kitchen. We have four different ways we can to this and I want to get some input on this: Option 1: We keep the … Read More

With Labor Day almost here (yeah – is it time yet?) we have to take a look at a pharmaceutical dispensing industry where everything seems to be going wrong on the employment front.  Useful to study, too because it’s the road a lot of other industries will be following and as such, is a useful … Read More

Economic Theory has it that when people have confidence, and when they have low interest rates available, they will form  family units and buy housing. So naturally when we read this morning’s housing data, that’s the kind ofs thing that rolls through the back of the mind.  What’s missing? HOME PRICE GAINS IN JUNE CONCENTRATED … Read More

Oh boy…lots of moving pieces around here, Life lately has been like falling into a blender. Moving Approaches? Panama and his wife are nearly ready to close on their new home – a very nice place in town and close to everything. That – and the arrival of cooler weather – will result in a … Read More

It was more of the same this weekend:  The major money center banks of the world and the monetary policy folks getting together at Jackson Hole Wyoming.  A fitting place where the world Hole figured prominently has to be one of the finest winks out there from Universe. That aside – and while the banks … Read More