“You’re WHAT?” IN so many words, my most normal daughter was telling be she and her spouse would be heading to Las Vegas to take part in a Zombie Apocalypse Tactical Op Training Session. Oh, one of those… I tried to sound hip but it wasn’t going very well at all. With good reason, too. … Read More
We’re working in the wrong business – that is, if you happen to work in the private sector, like I do. That’s because in the FedGov, employees get 10 holidays per year. Those of us schmoes in the private sector are lucky to get five. And this is before federal employees count “compensatory time” – … Read More
Depending on your coffee load, you may (or may not) remember my mentioning last week that I had the “earthquake tireds.” For whatever reason, I am one of those people who is very sensitive to earthquakes in advance. I get terribly tired and all I want to do is go back to bed and sleep. … Read More
With a “shock poll” out showing Donald Trump is back up in the polls and inside the margin of error, we see this weekend pervasive signs that the liberal attack dogs have been set lose. They are desperate trying to find some way – hell any way – to hold on to the Gravy Train … Read More
Free speech? Pahleeze… Not something the anti-Trump people seem the least bit interested in. Witness the report about how Trump donors were spit on and such. Meantime, the MSM Trump=-haters, like the Washington Post are tripping over themselves to say the worst possible things about Trump trying to address black people’s issues. Yet here is … Read More
Nope, we’re not going for the all-time crudeness award here. What we are doing is putting a new phenomena under the microscope to prove 8-billion people loose in the world don’t have anything else to do other than make-up new and exciting ways to take money from you. This is the stuff big government and, … Read More
Wasn’t it just a week ago that we of the non-MSM press was being raked over the coals for pointing out that the payment of $400 million to Iran was paying for hostages? “Oh, no, no…” said the apologists for President Useless. Yet now, here we have the Obama administration via stooges at State admitting … Read More
Our first serious prepping note is thanks to my darling wife. While we were on vacation, she was driving and misjudged a turn into the carport where we were staying. No damage to the carport, but a $1,200 ding in the old Lex. Problem: While the dealership in Ft. Worth could have had the job, … Read More
A buddy of mine – and a bond-dude here in Texas in a big city that gets a lot of raise and has stupid-high property taxes – has been a wee bit skeptical of something I have been forecasting for months. Yet here we is: Bonds going nowhere and stock at new record highs. Means … Read More
So here we go again…looking into the future. As long term-term readers of Peoplenomics.com know, we are set – in the long wave economic scheme of things – to move into the war period along about 2020 to 2015. My consigliere is betting in 2022-2024 if you are looking for a tighter bet range. In … Read More
You don’t want to misprice risk – that’s one of the key ideas in the July Fed minutes just out. Several suggested that the Committee would likely have ample time to react if inflation rose more quickly than they currently anticipated, and they preferred to defer another increase in the federal funds rate until they … Read More
I’ve been hard at the charts this week and what I have to share this morning is enough to cause any sane person to consider dropping out of the presidential contest. 2017 mas “major ugly” potential. You see: Whoever “wins” may be looking down the barrel of a 25-30% market decline (or worse) in 2017. … Read More
Yes, boys and girls, we go off on the sacrilegious track once again, due to too much coffee and too many headlines. For those just tuning-in, here are the rules of the game: We go to the UrbanSurvival News Headline Scanner. Here. I select 5 headlines and try to guess their source. Then you do … Read More