Instrument Check! Takes me back to my flying days. Checklists Galore! And they work great for keeping a lot of variables arranged for safe travel into an uncertain future. Checklists facilitate something called RKA. We don’t talk about it much here (*more on the Peoplenomics subscriber site). It means Rapid Knowledge Acquisition. When you couple … Read More
What We Said About Currency Early Futures on a ‘do-nothing’ Monday gave us an ideal example of how to discern whether Forex (foreign exchange/currency trading) was in the ‘drivers seat’ or whethere value mattered any more. The answer is not particularly encouraging. We noted on the Euro to Dollar chart from Kitco that the dollar … Read More
Site Work Done — (Yes???) Done!!! (?) OK, Frisbee – check it out. UrbanSurvival should be loading a bit faster now and says on all the fancy software ‘meters’ it’s working. Links seem to be there, people comments and remarks are appearing…and so forth. It will take a little time to move around the web, as … Read More
Odds of me getting the major speed increase, CMS platform change – on UrbanSurvival done this weekend? Zero. Reason? Competing priorities which (frankly) are more fun. This morning we have three “topics from the heart.” All centered around that which we do that makes us human. Other than crows (and a few other animals) humans … Read More
Wednesday will be “Issue #1,000” of Peoplenomics. Time to pull 20-odd years of study into something for posterity. Or, was that posterior? The only thing to rival the insanity of the Digital Uprising and quickly emerging Digital Mob Rule is the political process. Not much of a choice. If you haven’t taken the time to … Read More
Retail Holds Up One thing about being at home: People are changing their lifestyles around to cope with the still spiraling Covid-19. You can almost feel it around here: More “chair time” means a new chair. New chair? Well, you need a new chair mat, right? Long as we’re at it, new keyboard..new…well, you have … Read More
Many Data Points Let’s go back to what we told our Peoplenomics.com subscribers Wednesday morning: “Options Week Slaughter?” Dow Futures already down 310. On top of the Wednesday decline. (I’ll try not to pull my shoulder patting myself on the back, lol.) With markets up 7% (in our Aggregated view – +225% annualized) we were … Read More
A change of pace today as we look at a couple of historical oddities. Feels like a fine time to “get unstuck” from the pre-election frenzy. Because if you’re like us, this has become pretty sickening. Still, we stick to our long-term roots in cyclical economics as the ChartPack reveals some interesting information about what … Read More
Dueling Data Again Making Sense out of this ‘flipped out’ world is our fascination around here. Because at every turn, there are red flags the Bull market ignores. After new economic data, the Dow futures were down half a percent, but with online fever going around, NASDAQ futures were up 8-10ths of a percent. The … Read More
Stimulus – The “Reality Gap” We’ve been warning you for months not to expect a second economic stimulus until after the election. Although the market is on pins and needles – waiting for a rally on any hint of breakthrough – we’re as sorely cynical as ever. CNBC’s been running with U.S. stock futures little … Read More
Yes, Better BBQ! I promised a while back that I would write a review as soon as we got the new infrared BBQ rolling and I got some steaks under my belt. (By the look of it, there’s a lot more than one there, already!) As you can see, the Master Chef snapped this after … Read More
Can we simple humans out trade the machines (made in our own image), anymore? It’s far from a theoretical question in markets like these. By many measures (rational ones, like price to book and prices to dividends) markets are at “lifetime extremes.” But, you wouldn’t know it. Sadly, as we’ll see in charts this morning, … Read More
Are You Pulling My Lever? Mostly useless crap in the headlines today. We will be interested to listen to Rush Limbaugh’s show today because word is president Trump will be doing a Town Hall. Trump was on Hannity Thursday. As usual, the press doesn’t go over his content, or bother reporting his views. Like “Pence … Read More