You ever wake up on a Monday morning and the only thing on your mind is food??? That’s me today. Und zo…. Although we have house guests (and I am getting a lot of serious work out of derr Major) not too many people, guests or Elaine, seem anxious to get up and hit the … Read More
Regardless of age, with luck you will have to face the two toughest questions of retirement: When to actually retire and then how to find the “right” place to live. Thanks to a Florida reader, this week we look at the problem as an email exchange with the reader where we kick around some of … Read More
Step 1. Pour yourself a big glass of water. Step 2. Down 2 ibuprofen or aspirin. Step 3. Three hits of Boost Oxygen. Step 4. Continue reading. The U.S. Department of “Cozy” Step-wise: 1.Over here (on Real Clear Politics) is a story about Megyn Kelly going after DNC whozit Donna Brazile for alleged question leaking. … Read More
Some discussion about the joys of Structured Thinking seems like a fitting end to the week. Been chatting back and forth with a long-time reader in what will turn into a Peoplenomics report this week: The Topic is Retirement: Should I Go or Should I stay? Got my tax bill advance in the mail this … Read More
Yeah – it’s all a distraction. As we explained in our Peoplenomics.com report Wednesday, we have much bigger fish to fry, not the least is which is the potential for nuclear war over the U.S. ongoing efforts to change out the government in an independent country against whom we have not “declared war.” The debate … Read More
If everything went according to plan, my buddy the retired Major from Gig Harbor will just be stirring as he and his wife arrived at Uretopia Ranch last night. Last, as always, and now done with kibitzing until past midnight. They’re on a stopover enroute to a medical conference in SoCal next week. And we … Read More
Want something to worry about – I mean other than the big “Hillary Out” in the Enquirer (on news stands today)? We do a lot of modeling and test-fitting of bits of news – then let the mind wander to see what might be on the horizon. This morning we offer a shockingly comprehensive “piece-fit” … Read More
Gather ‘round the electric chair, kiddies. Uncle George will read ja the data just out from BLS. Rent and gas are up, like you didn’t notice. “The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.3 percent in September on a seasonally adjusted basis, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the … Read More
With the election close, and with a big dust-up at Mosul, and with the US threatening to directly confront Russian forces in Syria, we have to realistically stop and assess the odds of nuclear war. This leads to a number of very interesting scenarios, depending on which side seizes the initiative. On the one hand, … Read More
Whistling by the graveyard, yelling at the tide, or talking sense to someone with a closed mind: It’s all the same thing. Denial. We start this morning two headlines that everyone should be thinking about, though few will outside of UrbanSurvival readers. There’s no new Pokémon to be birthed from the effort, after all. Still, … Read More
Roll up your sleeve. Time for another Reality Inoculation…. It was an odd conversation, as most of ours are around the ranch: Elaine and I were thinking back to the “times of old” when men could open a car door for a woman without being sent to Chauvinist Hell. When people said “Please, yes, thank … Read More
Eventually, this concept will have to emerge from the lab and into the light of economic day. But this morning we lay out an interesting treatise on how the Fed revealed in Janet Yellen’s Friday speed that they are “perception limited” by conventional economics. Long article this morning, so three cups may be needed. More … Read More
Remember yesterday’s column, where I explained why the market would drop? This morning I can write the reciprocal column without even having to put on the thinking cap. Shall we? I could say Hillary is leading in polls and that might be enough, since all big Money Men are dems (Buffett et al). But there … Read More