Been a few days on my To-Do list. So, I wanted to job down a few notes about what’s changing in the craft of writing. This is a long answer to long-time reader & subscriber Sam B up in the Grand Junction part of Colorado. He inquired about me writing up an update to my … Read More
I am an idiot. We are giving away too much, again. While much of the publishing industry is trying to figure out how little content it can deliver for another dollar, we’re determined to see how much thinking we can do for $40/year. What’s on deck today? We begin with the CPI numbers and what … Read More
Let’s Start with “What a Sailor knows.” When I was sailing, having lived aboard a sailboat for more than ten years, the operation of waves and wavelets—particularly how they can stack or cancel—became crystal clear. In a regular seaway, there’s a dominant wave train. All lined up, these might range from one-inch ripples to 12-foot … Read More
Softly and Uply are the key concepts early today. Because, as we anticipated on the Peoplenomics.com site this weekend, the real action should come late-week. European bourses were up early. Asia was a different story: The KOSPI was down 3.65% overnight. This South Korean index traded around 9,150-ish not long ago (late June). But as of … Read More
One of the joys of retirement is that I have organized our home/lives to be based on a workstation concept. That is to say: The first 20 minutes was a shave, hot shower, and tossing my laundry into machines. A shy 15 at the coffee drinking, blood pressure taking, and red LED for eyeballs recliner. … Read More
Hurricanes spinning, tankers getting shot at, Washington arranging Russian diesel while sanctioning Russia, and Wall Street celebrating. Welcome to Saturday, where the headlines are the atoms, but the real trouble begins when they form molecules. Today’s Peoplenomics News Compressor connects the dots between energy, warfare, consumer confidence, and financial markets. The wiring diagram isn’t pretty. … Read More
The problem before us couldn’t be clearer. As long as we have a debt-dependent, interest-based economy, we have a built-in addiction to growth, pure and simple. Not because interest mathematically requires perpetual expansion, but because the institutions we’ve built around borrowing, lending, taxation, and investment are rewarded when tomorrow’s economy is bigger than today’s. There … Read More
Blame Engineering isn’t a featured sport in America, yet. But out here in the (peace and quiet of the) woods, the headline evidence piles up that the sport is expanding. The working clip file runs from AP’s presidential buck-passing to CNN’s blame-the-messenger framing, POLITICO’s inheritance argument, and Carl Cannon’s reminder that Biden had his own … Read More
Markets, Media Rut, and the Missing Frame? One of the mysteries of modern investing is why everyone waits breathlessly for the Fed Minutes. By the time they’re released, the meeting is history and the decision has already been made. Useful rearview mirror? Sure. Windshield? Not so much. In today’s Peoplenomics, our overnight BlinkLab scan finds … Read More
As we anticipated in last week’s Peoplenomics ChartPack, the market is now in position to break higher despite headwinds. Some of these include falling presidential polls, diesel being a question mark, and the whole intergenerational “Is there some point, here?” Friction, Folly, and Life In case you didn’t know, Amazon’s Prime Big Deals are on … Read More
Things move slow—and then fast—in modelspace. When we told you several years back that it was time to build on-site food production—even something like a sun porch container garden—you probably laughed your ass off thinking, “My, that old man Ure in the woods of East Texas has really lost it!” Then, when we began using … Read More
If you haven’t figured out what “Mondacious” means, go look at a calendar and get back to us. This week is mostly a nothingburger – which is fine with us. Dow futures are down 51 early, Ess and Pee down less than 6. And honestly, with the week’s load of Treasury buybacks, we’re glad to … Read More
A new leather recliner showed up this week. One picked up about 4-5 years ago just isn’t cutting it, so a new one. Problem is, it came via FedEx and they don’t move things into living rooms. As it turned out, I didn’t see the truck on the security cams, either, so I couldn’t go … Read More