Nice Rally, Now what?

We have been holding our breath for the market to hit one of our long-projected highs.  To be sure, we got there Wednesday (picture in a second) but I would have liked to have seen it faster.  Like a month ago. This is one of those “big uglies” in economics that no one likes to … Read More

Coping: Seasonal Calendar Issues, Camping

I’ve been looking at the calendar a lot lately.  Coming up sooner than ever, it seems, on “the holidays.” In Texas, holidays include the opener of the bow season for deer, opening of the youth season for deer (where an amazing number of 6-7 year olds are leased and immediately become expert shots with a … Read More

Bracketing All-Time Highs

I touched on this morning’s topic on the UrbanSurvival site Tuesday. Where will the high for this market hit? This morning the details.  You see, it raises very interesting technical questions:  Do Elliott Wave principles apply to Aggregated Market data, for example? And in our Focus section: A comparison of the 1929 stock bubble run-up … Read More

Trump as Hoover II: Top Approaches

We have been delighted this morning (since 4 AM!) to have found an upcoming “area of agreement” between two very interesting wave counts.  As you may know, we have a spreadsheet on the Peoplenomics.com subscriber site that we call the “brainamp.xls” What this little gem does is it lets you put in any two points … Read More

Coping: With Winter Coming, Shop Projects…

I came in from the shop, where I’ve been going through the woodpile.  As I explained last week, this is not something to be taken lightly. There are now four kinds of wood in the Ure household. One is scheduled for construction projects.  This wood is generally, or more feet in length, free of nails, … Read More

How Much of a “Relief Bounce?”

The headlines are an odd assortment this morning:  One of the big ones features the Dow showing a 119 point rally in the works, per the futures, as we hit the pixels. But beneath it all, we see some signs of weakness not to be under-estimated.  While it’s too early to talk about damage from … Read More

Coping: With the Book-writer Within

193 pages.  181 footnotes. 4-weeks of every waking minute outside of Urban and Peoplenomics.  And now the BIG problems begin. Dimensions Next Door will not be ready for proofreading for a couple of more weeks because the book laid out some directions to potential intellectual property (patents) and I need to get them done and … Read More

A $100 Prepping Plan

The recent outbreak of weather (and seismic) events, forest fires, and so on, has us thinking about the best use of money. If you have prepped as long as we have, the cases of ammo, buckets of food, barrels of water, and all the rest is really overkill. But if you’re one of those people … Read More

Damn Weather Whipsaw: Market Slide Ahead

Gosh, yesterday I was telling you how there was a case in current market action for there to be some recovery in the markets and, should it all hold how we could go on to new highs. That would be based on “good news” which was being priced into the market. Then something happened in … Read More

Coping: Problems of the Open Web

I have offered for years that one of the sure-fire markers of the arriving Second Great Depression will be the increasing regulation of the Internet. When it comes, and I spelled out the case for it in one of my books (Broken Web) that it will have to, one of the first area’s I’d like … Read More

Carnac of Markets

The Wikipedia entry sees all, explains all, about this morning’s column: “Carnac the Magnificent was a recurring comedic role played by Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. One of Carson’s most well-known characters, Carnac was a “mystic from the East” who could psychically “divine” unknown answers to unseen questions.” Thing is, based … Read More

Coping: 29-Acres of Organizing

With my consigliere due to show up at Uretopia in less than a month, we have gone into the “deep cleaning” mode around the ranch.  If my writing has been slightly unhinged lately, it is likely due to the big domestic changes underway. The good thing about living on a 40-foot sailboat for 10+ year … Read More

Directorate 153: "Operation 30"

We will often use the “thinking tool” of a purely hypothetical trans-governmental entity we call Directorate 153 in order to frame certain discussions that would seem highly improbably, absent a cohesive organizing force. Once you get used to the concept of our “run-away think tank” ensconced in the hill just off to the side of … Read More