It was a chilly 9° F when I began my commute to the palatial UrbanSurvival office today. The cross-country commute (65-feet from the greenhouse to shop door) was not quite as miserably cold as up north of us: My 74-years-in-the-making “news nose” did find one angle on the cold I haven’t read before: The CO2 … Read More
The (super) early Futures pricing wasn’t showing much oomph prior to the GDP figures and the Chicago Fed data just out. GDP first: “Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 3.2 percent in the third quarter of 2022, in contrast to a decrease of 0.6 percent in the second quarter. The … Read More
You do know the “worst of times” is when you might actually have time for a big project, right? With the problems in the economy unfolding in the wake of last week’s Fed decision; and with more financial concerns about the period ahead, we step out of our usual “let’s make some money” reports to … Read More
We are beginning to wind down into the holidays. Tomorrow, though, a very useful Peoplenomics report on estimating small house/microhome projects complete with spreadsheet to do the heavy lifting, As a “mood setter” for this kind of project (son G2’s planning his build this spring) it’s useful to look at three things. Overall direction of the … Read More
I don’t know where the idea of the “Silver Bullet” came from. Perhaps, it was the Lone Ranger in the youth of Boomers. There was a lot of “silver” in that teevee series. Lemme see: Jay Silver Heels played the BF Tonto. The original masker rode the (high-ho of Hi-Yo, or “Hi ho’”) Silver four-legged vehicle. … Read More
Detailed User Note and Follow up first: User Theme is now adjustable. That little “crescent moon and stars thing” in the lower right of the screen. If that icon is black background, you are in Normal (light) theme. If the icon is white background, then you are in dark mode. People like me who have … Read More
[Reader Reminder: Use the light symbol, lower right to change screen colors from night to day. Helps many of our visually challenged readers (like me).] Is there a Black Monday, or Tuesday, in our future? Today, we not only do the “usual” Saturday ChartPack for subscribers, but we also leap the high board at the … Read More
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A week from now, we will be thawing turkey and telling you about coldzilla or freeze-my-geddon. But this morning, we are stopping at the accident scene on Wall Street on the way to real work. STAT! Broken Neckline We made something of a big deal in our Wednesday Peoplenomics® preopen report about the (then) pending head-and-shoulders formation that was … Read More
Excuse the long title, but oftentimes, we poor writers need to make a list when there is a lot to cover. Days like today…with a lil ADHD in the air… Now, park your sensibilities and come with me… Retail Really Matters Can’t run a country on political payoffs and war-making, can we? Just out are … Read More
Several events have reminded me recently to “write up a useable guide to reliability.” Because, with the world quickly going to hell in a Fed basket, we not only need to plan for contingencies, but contingencies on top of those! Which is why – with the Fed announcement some six hours from now (as I … Read More
Alright. Keep your shirt on and shit together. Here’s the CPI everyone’s been waiting for: 7.1 percent and 6.0 all-items. “The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.1 percent in November on a seasonally adjusted basis, after increasing 0.4 percent in October, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the … Read More
Another Monday in the Great Game of Life kicks off with a reasonababble writer on the sidelines holding up a stack of Monday cue cards. Tuesday Data Watch We see the Biden administration lobbying of the Federal Reserve ahead of their rate increase decision Wednesday. As Treasury Sec. and former Fed chief Janet Yellen is … Read More