Today, I wanted to go through some of the books that I have read this year or which are still on my reading list. People ask “What do you read? My thinking has always been that if you are going to be an interesting writer, you need to read extensively across a broad number of … Read More
There are a lot of very interesting news items this morning. We’ll cover most in short summary form since a pages-long treatment of each gets boring. Its also useless in terms of payback on time invested. In keeping with the “excess bandwidth” discussion on UrbanSurvival Friday, we note already the passing of former president George … Read More
Having a guest here this week has been most instructive. Since our guest is a tax attorney, not to mention an extra class ham radio operator, and a genuine expert on the economic longwaves, it’s great to have a “fellow traveler” to this place to kick things around with. Thinks like “the future” and where … Read More
It may be worth watching the news several times this weekend because the world is going into “Turn on the Blender Mode.” At the macro level, there is a meeting of the G20 in Argentina. There’s more, but the top of the Wikipedia entry on point begins with… The G20 (or Group of Twenty) is … Read More
Oh no you don’t. We don’t offer financial advice – and besides, yesterday was a very painful day for me, personally. It was one of those “zigged when we should have zagged” kind of days. Honestly, I don’t think we’re completely out of the woods, yet. But, the good news is that whever we’re going … Read More
With my consigliere landing this afternoon to work with me a bit on the upcoming Annual Outlook issue, I thought it would be useful this morning to kick around some of the specific data we’ll be looking at. After we dodge a few bullets in the news headlines and scroll the chart by you, along … Read More
“Axioms of Work?” “You really going to write from Work to Sous Vide cooking?” Uh, sure! Read on… In the event you missed it, one of the joys of UrbanSurvival is our elevating art of algorithmic thinking. In other words, since we are busily doing exactly what the Bible (and other religious texts) prohibit (making … Read More
Just out from Case-Shiller/S&P/CoreLogic et al… NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 27, 2018 – S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices. Data released today for September 2018 shows that the rate of home price increases across the U.S. slowed for the second … Read More
Time for us to check you into Reality Rehab. The Trump Bump wasn’t supposed to happen. It was the Clinton Bump – except that voters didn’t vote the Manipulation Ticket and actually voted the Anything Else ticket. Still, we’re not getting what we voted for. The “Trump Tax Cut” – truth be known (though why … Read More
(Thank our Peoplenomics.com subscribers who have made this kind of research possible – or, better yet, become one yourself!) As we have been telling our subscribers for a few weeks now, there is ONLY ONE CHART THAT MATTERS RIGHT NOW: This is not investment advice – it’s just a lineup of where things are this … Read More
As I was sitting quietly contemplating some of the major problems of physics (“Why do composite resistors have much Johnson-Nyquist noise figures than think-metal film varieties?”) it struck me that a useful column for the end of a weekend would be to round up a few things that haven’t found their way into our regular … Read More
This morning we scrap our usual format (headlines, charts, in depth report) to lay everything out in as much context as possible. This is not alarmist – at least in the usual sense: We are not saying the coming week will be a disaster. But, the odds bump up from the non-zero region far enough … Read More
OK, the turkey is done, in the fridge, and now you have a nice weekend to begin frittering-away time until you can put on the yoke of capitalist oppression again Monday… Rather than waste time – the one truly limited supply item in Life – might we offer a sampling of really useful prepping ideas … Read More