Saturday’s Peoplenomics is a full plate. The new ChartPack looks at whether markets still have enough coherence to make one more run toward Labor Day, while the News Compressor hits the fast-moving risks in Hawaii, Hormuz, Ebola, earthquakes, weakening U.S. consumers, war fronts and an increasingly bubbly AI buildout. Then we get into the subscriber … Read More
Let me huff the whiteboard marker for a sec. (ah…all better!) Let’s begin – before “rolling retail” with a short economics discourse for the tuition-impaired who had to really work, instead. First bullet point: In economics, the phrase “shopkeeper economy” most precisely refers to a theoretical model developed by Daniel P. Murphy (2013). It describes … Read More
Peoplenomics is still down – when it returns will depend on what happens in Phoenix next. …your hosting server (az1-ss4-redact) in our Arizona data center) is currently affected by an active incident involving elevated ambient temperatures at the Phoenix data center facility. This platform-level issue is causing reachability and performance issues for servers on that … Read More
“Ah, my fellow digital teamsters”, I announced to the AI flock today. Not needing coffee, they were quick on the uptake: “Good morning, George. Digital Teamster has a damn nice ring to it. Not assistant. Not chatbot. Not “AI companion.” Digital Teamster: shows up before dawn, knows where the tools are, remembers what we were … Read More
Peoplenomics is a packed one. Reader reaction to Department 546: The Ancient Children has been terrific — including one fellow who says the book cost him most of a perfectly good Monday because he couldn’t put it down. Book One remains free to subscribers, and Book Two — the conclusion — is finished and should … Read More
Markets are still “backing and filling” as the approach of inflation data (CPI from U.S. BLS) pops tomorrow. For now, there looks to be “hope in the hinterlands” – those regions where massive corporates don’t own it all – yet. Today’s poster child for hope? A press release: WASHINGTON, D.C. (Aug. 11, 2026) – The NFIB Small … Read More
Here’s how our Sunday news distillation ended: “Watch Quake Risks August 12 brings a total solar eclipse across Greenland, Iceland and Spain near the Perseid meteor peak. Skip the Internet hype and think instead about land tides, crustal loading and stress. Coffee gone. Shop calls. Today? M 7.4 – 5 km S of San José … Read More
Most of our Peoplenomics content is hard-edge, nonfiction, forward-looking economics and strategic planning with contingencie3s and preparedness agendas. Today? Hot times and laboring computers under the A/C bubble and created something new. I do love to write, so here is my newest fiction piece. An antiaging/conspiracy/legal techno-thriller. If you don’t have a $40/year subscription, the … Read More
Let’s go through the market simplifications first. Middle East is still a mess. However in our WW III is for weekends, so as not to topple the globalist financial empire, we should have some upward bias to markets. However… Last week’s Jobs data was on the skimpy side. So, our back-of-the-envelope says odds shade toward … Read More
A busy Sunday with coffee, so I’ve been tuning the automated news-surveillance fleet again — this time for faster reading. The structure remains 4/19/45: four major stories, up to 19 inside-page items, and at least 45 source scans. That gets me to the shop sooner. News Compressor: ON 1. Israel rejects Trump Gaza plan. Prime … Read More
Most people imagine World War III as a sudden event barrage: missiles, collapsing markets and armies moving everywhere at once. But what if modern great-power war is learning to move much more slowly—through drones, sanctions, energy pressure, shipping disruption, cyberwarfare and the steady depletion of money, weapons and political patience? In today’s Peoplenomics we look … Read More
“You are cleared for higher – at or above 67,000 – expect handoff around Labor Day.” If markets operated like FAA Air Traffic Controllers, that would be the cockpit communications brief. But not referencing altitude; instead it’s the Peoplenomics Aggregate Index. On that backroom version of “market radar” here’s what was showing before the job numbers … Read More
What Time is It? That’s one of the foundational questions we get into on the Peoplenomics side of the house ($40/yr), along with “getting the most” out of whatever system we’re all presently swimming in. So – if you’re wondering “Where’s the gain from the Iran War, and what does “win” look like in Ukraine?” pay attention. … Read More