Our current ShopTalk project is coming along just great. It’s the 10 X 20-foot vegetable garden add-on to the side of the recording studio. This week, I got serious about the “finishing touches” and – if you worry about radioactive leftovers – here are some of the design parameters that have fallen into place. Although … Read More
The flavor of global socialism driven by computational engines is on the verge of break-up. Not only based on events in Ukraine, but due to the lack of workable global governance to resolve regional issues. Read: Ukraine, Taiwan, Syria, and so forth. This morning a few comments on how this could go – plus its … Read More
Enough of Ure’s long-winded scribbles. Standby to learn something. Today, absent much economic data to drive the mania, we’ll lay out the (simplified) Kondratiev War just ahead. And explain why you are confused. One step at a time. There is a “War Cycle” Socioeconomics is a not as “clean” as digital (on-off, high-low) logic. It’s analog … Read More
You may not have much of a memory when comes to bio-weapons development. Maybe it was “burned out” of you in the Covid debacle. Yet there exist many claims that the US has – through corporate proxies – engaged in bioweapons work in Ukraine and other FSU states. For example, in 2018 a detailed report, … Read More
If you aren’t up to speed on corporate knowledge preservation. you may not be prepared for this weekend. That’s when, according to reports, Russia will be making many changes to its Internet. And that means the whole information-space theater of war is about to be wiggled. Could things break? If you have already transitioned to … Read More
Although the US market broke to lower (recent) lows Monday, our optimism about America seems likely to be buoyed. At least, so say the early futures. I’ve discovered a new method of investing, lately. It’s called the guillotine trading method. Works really simple: You invest, market promptly heads the other direction, and you’re account balance screams … Read More
Our future is Fertilizer. Which takes a bit of explaining. When I said, a week or so back, that the market was rotating into position where a “make or break” was due – and a visit to the bottom of an obvious trend channel becomes likely. Today – and maybe carrying into tomorrow – we … Read More
Mood-setting and motivation: Russian war in world’s ‘breadbasket’ threatens food supply | AP News Let’s talk first about Design Creep. Although we have yet to eat a single plant from our 20-foot by 10 add-on Garden Room off the recording studio, it has sure been a pleasure in terms of “build.” Honestly, some of the … Read More
My discussion (premature to the narrative) of a 55 MPH speed limit in Friday’s Urban column caused some consternation. “Oh, Ure has sold out to the Dark Side!” and sentiments like “Ure’s an idiot – we did that already…” we typical. My intent was not to disavow speed. I’m an adrenaline junkie from the get-go. … Read More
We can frame today’s report this way: “Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is an intelligence that is produced from publicly available information and is collected, exploited, and disseminated in a timely manner to an appropriate audience for the purpose of addressing a specific intelligence requirement.” Although Life under Joe (Biden, not Stalin, at least not yet) seems superficially … Read More
Since we have FinTech, and Fin[whatever], why not FinCrazy and FinNuts? Evidence abounds. It just ain’t called that – yet. Trust me on this: FinFuk will be a word in 5-years, or less. High Level Downers We – hapless souls caught in skin bags for this adventure – watch as the world devolves toward a … Read More
A broad-spectrum discussion of war today: Causes, motivations, and public reaction. But more importantly of all, personal anticipatory activities that can improve the odds of living through this most stressful of periods. In addition to a little “news from the front” what we’ll focus on will be broadly applicable when the “next shoe drops.” That, we … Read More
There really isn’t too much interesting news flow today, except for The War, of course. But even here, the stories (like Hollywood Halts Releases In Russia, Including ‘The Batman’) strike us as childish. Just like throwing out good vodka. You see, the real story here – as seen from the East Texas Outback – is … Read More