Connecting to Energy. Amped without trying is on the table this morning. Life as a Film School, too. Along with F-Stops and Tapestries unfolding through Life. As our preview of my book “Packing to Die: Suitcase Between your Ears” continues. Of course, before we begin, we’ll size up the week’s bounce (which looks to be … Read More
Used to be that if you wanted to get a bead on how the economic future of America was holding up, you could jump over to the U.S. Treasury website that offered (updated often) the U.S. Public Debt to the Penny. No more. If you go to that site these days, you’ll be politely informed: … Read More
We do some mighty strange stuff around here. One of which – and we’ve been updating at least weekly since the Internet bubble suffered a blow-out in 2001-2003 – is comparing the present day to the last major collapse. In our work, we’re going into this week (equivalent to Nov. 12, 1930) from here: As you … Read More
(This is the post that “blew up” UrbanSurvival last weekend. We can’t be sure, but this was the last thing I posted; rewritten from memory…) Summer Shop Tips The weather here has been into the 90s now for a couple of weeks. With it, the amount of time spent in the shop, not to mention the … Read More
Besides a stock market with a “case of the wobblies” much else in moving now. Although only notes, it will give you ideas on how – in a sense – the world might be seen as “almost ready to wrap up…” Before this, some headlines, too. All of which makes for a brainful of speculation. … Read More
Since Field Day is one of the world’s first True Prepping events, we figured a special edition of Urban would be interesting, even to non-ham radio types. Of course, there will be enough “secret sauce tossed in” to make sure Old-Timers (I was first licensed in 1963, lol) learn a few tricks along the way. What’s … Read More
Apparently, the Casino is on rockier ground than we thought. Because this is how it looked half an hour into today’s session: We will be updating the 1929 comparison chart on the Peoplenomics site tomorrow. In the meantime, though, whether this is a small down wave to set up for a summer rally? Remains to … Read More
After the Internet Bubble collapsed in 2000-2004, we came up with a “better mousetrap” way of looking at Markets. Instead of looking at a single stock, or a single index, we decided that the “right way” to size up any (global financial) Casino would be to keep track of the TOTAL HANDLE. That is, how much money is “in … Read More
Before we “go deep” let’s get the housekeeping “news” items out of the way. This being summer, we don’t want to work too hard, too fast, of course…, Sweat is for hourlies. Data Points Weekly unemployment new filers look like this: Pay attention to the yellow highlights since these haven’t been buggered up with “seasonal” … Read More
The Suitcase Between Your Ears. This is not a “warm and fuzzy” book. BUT it will force you to come to terms. Not only with Death – we all go there, eventually. We’ll focus on the opportunities that surround us in Life. As the “method” school of acting wonders, then “What’s my motivation?” Dandy question … Read More
Wow…,finally caught a break and it was Good News! (OK, and a little bad.) The UrbanSurvival complete recovery is coming along. Really, really well. Except for one tiny detail – the images associated with old reports on this site have gone MIA. Still, it’s a huge triumph of some really great programmers. And if you can stand the … Read More
Data Days don’t come much larger than this. I mean holy smokes. Gives the Fed enough cover to hide behind any rate decision tomorrow. Let’s roll through them one at a time: [Also will be posted on Peoplenomics in case your DNS hasn’t caught up, yet…] Retail Sales First the visual: Then the gory details: … Read More
Most people miss the whole point of “reading the news.” Your “average news consumer” isn’t sure what they’re really after. But some consultancies (Magid, I think it was, way back in the day) taught “Health, Heart, and Pocketbook” as key editor story-selection criteria. The A.P. also did some research (I was on their Broadcast Association … Read More