Hype in Mire Monday – Sketchy Week Ahead?

Why, looking at the early futures (Dow +200) you’d think that the skies were about to part and the rally into the close Friday might continue. ‘fraid not. But, the good news for old day traders is that the markets always “swing” so there’s usually a lunch money trade, or two, lying around.  Still, it’s … Read More

Rethink: Time vs. Price

No question, Price is the big factor in day trading.  But when comes to Futuring, prepping, and staying the hell out of harm’s way, time signals in the market are where it’s at. Paradoxically, higher price prediction confidence rises, the lower time confidence drops.  This incestuous relationship buggers up everything from military intelligence assessments to … Read More

April Collapse Odds Climbing – Ports Disaster Unfolds

Earth Time Piling Up:  A large cluster of bad ju-ju is presenting its leading edge, just now.  We see it across many of our “Seven Systems/Domains” model and it seems the next 60-days will be key to our future. Regardless of your partisan leanings (*they’re mainly a marketing division, anyway) the list of existential challenges … Read More

Immortality: The Investment Problem

Life Extension has a hard limit defined by personal income over time. Wife Elaine nailed it at breakfast Monday when she said “You can’t have one without the Other.” Life extension mainly costs money and investments usually cost time. Today, we’ll look at this balancing problem.  And begin to draw an odd kind of outlook … Read More

Ex-Im, PhillyFed, Housing Starts & the BreakCiv Problem

The curse of George Ure is ALWAYS being too early.  I booked a small loss Wednesday because of misjudging the start of what may be the beginning of the stock market shaking off the recent banking mania.  Although, in fairness, Arnold’s “I’ll be back…” line is likely to be apropos. The future is always clear … Read More

The Gamer’s Guide to the Afterlife

I was wrong when I thought my book Packing to Die: Suitcase between your ears” was done.  It turns out that upon reflection, there is still a chapter missing. Maybe even a missing “next book.” Which we will rectify today with an additional chapter that will be added to the book (on Kindle) in the … Read More

Weimarica Monday: Ure’s Lunch

Surely, you remember the position of Germany in the Weimar Republic debacle following imposition of reparations on the Kaiser’s former Germanic republic. It’s a period of many lessons, not the least of which is: Reparations exacted from unwilling people tend to blow up. Reparations often blow in a hyperinflationary manner.  (Money has to come from … Read More

Profitectomy: Slip-Sliding Away

Been a fine, if not damn near dandy week, here in the East Texas Outback.  The time of year when “green up” happens – as the wild lands look greener than Ireland. The bank balances are greening-up nicely, as well.  Because we have a useful kluge of a lot of technical gibberish and simple visuals … Read More

Woke Desperation, Market Sags

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

Market Risks Rising

It has taken a little longer than expected for Wave 3 down to begin clarifying.  Even so, the bearish case into collapse, a second depression and global war is not fully “locked and loaded” yet. But we are getting close. Because it’s a three day weekend, our focus today is mainly on the charts.  Evens … Read More

Yellow Scale 3 – Fat Tuesday Fears

No.  We will not tell you here how to build a differential trading model, though on Peoplenomics.com for subscribers, sure. Instead, we will only give you the Big Picture based on early Futures prices today.  The grim news today is that IF the market closes at the early futures pricing, THEN we are increasingly likely … Read More

Football Does Our Work

Since the world is freakin’ crazy, it’s easy to find ways to entertain the herd of sheeple.  Pro sports is one such tool. I mean, when you think about it, Sports is a HUGE made-up monetization.  While there are some values (*teamwork, practice, striving for excellence) most of it can be learned from watching a … Read More

Extreme Risk Periods

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