At the Corner of Insanity and Sleaze – Stability Take a Hike

We do more than “cyclical economics” around here. We watch the winds of change. And today? Those winds are spooling up to hurricane-strength. Because Donald Trump’s biggest enemy may not be Biden, the DOJ, or the Deep State… It might be Donald Trump. Evidence Piles Up All it takes is a quick scan of the … Read More

Here Come Ai/Science Based Religions

I warned you – when it gets hot, that’s my prime writing time. Escape from the Texas heat and Brain Growing.  So this latest book? You want to hear about it? In Theomachine: AI and Science-Based Religion, we  weave personal anecdotes—from a chilling teenage encounter with a reptilian entity to decoding breakthrough dreams—with profound explorations … Read More

CPI, 3TM-4RS, and it’s Almost Hydro Time

Too early to put it all in the Decoder Ring? 50-Cents and a boxtop  to Battle Creek not working? Consumer Price Index is just out.  (Impacts) Trump Talks Too Much – Ray Rocks Russia Sanctions I’ve been head-down in my new book about coming Science-Based Religions. Which previews  Ai Theomachines in tomorrow’s Peoplenomics. Toss in a … Read More

Eyes Forward – America’s Rearview Problem

We’ve been chewing over the BPA — no, not the plastic kind, but the Biggest Problems in America. Sure, made the lists and checked them twice; pretty much know “who’s naught or nice…” Unless you’re a judge, or a prosecutor with a grand jury, or a national-level lawmaker, your “range of motion to repair” things … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: Energy Channeling Secrets

No.  We are not going to sit around after hot yoga and do “Ooouuummms” all day.  We’re not doing chakras, we’re into another kind of energy – the sort you write checks for. Energy of three types, in fact. Moods in soft space of the living room while the telly is on. How to get … Read More

End of World or End of MAGA?

As you may have guessed (being upright and fogging mirrors) we have two stories on the hot board this morning.  One has those distinctive Biblical overtones.  The other is more like a daytime soap gone off the rails. It’s all worth going through, because both will be dispensed with so we can jump into some … Read More

W.O.E.S. (World On Edge, Soon) – Mow Man

Friday wrap-ups are easy to write these days. You start with a list of the week’s major events.  Then you close your eyes and just sort of “see it” as a cartoon. “What would today look like with a hit of windowpane in the Ovaltine when I was a kid?” This ain’t Hanna-Barbera, but you’ll … Read More

Amazon Proves It: Consumers Done — ATR: YAB in Works

Great to see the “signs and portents” lining up.  And with a nod to Andy, indeed the world is right on schedule. Like one of those childhood puzzles, where you had to slide boards with holes in them so a marble could drop through, we have arrived where holes are aligning now and the “through-drop” is … Read More

City-States in the Cross-Hairs

Last week we gave Peoplenomics readers a first look at our book Downsizing.  Today, a follow-up chapter. This one deals where to live and we go through a lot of choices. Key thing is the logic and seeing how the modern city-states work and how states are slowly having their powers diluted through local option … Read More

Martket Roulette: Small Biz Steady, Tariff Tantrum, Uprisers

The early futures today were…what’s the word?  Confused about where to head next. Seasonality: One possibility is that the rally will be back from break in a minute and will stampede higher toward Labor Day – a traditional “late summer high” pattern. Fundamentals:  Somewhat stable, which could telegraph sideways for a while.  This morning, the NFIB … Read More

ShopTalk Sunday: Old Man, Hot Welds, and a Rack

NOT that kind of rack; listen up old men. Today we’re walking through how Mr. Ure slapped together some primer-coated solar rack extensions — in the kind of heat that’d melt a possum’s tail. If you’ve ever had to work in blistering temps but couldn’t wait on weather, there are some field-tested hints here to … Read More