8:55 AM/ 14:55 UTC just worked YB9GDP on 14.021 CW. That’s Munawiril down in Lomok Timur, Indonesia. The reason I mention this (for preppers) is to demonstrate a couple of things:  First, his code speed (hand key) is 16 words per minute.  Easy copy once you lock on to his “fist.” But the second point, … Read More

Once you know that there is essentially no difference between what the social conventions call “WORK” and what some of us call “PLAY”, then term “workstation” becomes interchangeable with “playstation.”  [Sony lawyers notwithstanding, but our use is in the generic sense, not the product anchored wordmark (2 cap letters), and there is plenty of prior art.  … Read More

Another look over my shoulder as we use “alternative means” in our quest to beat markets.”  And as you can tell from the title, this experiment is in progress until Monday. See, when markets are making big, powerful moves, you don’t want to get in the way of them. And since the Fed has made … Read More

Yes.  Global Systemic Collapse is coming into view. We’ve all sort-of known that the world has been living on borrowed time.  But, like that Library book you kept forgetting to return, we have skipped the actual doing something about it.  “Such a small daily fine, after all.” So, we have cheated, cajoled, polarized, and differentiated to the … Read More

Yeah – we’ll get to the Producer Prices in a minute.  But first a general survey of how well things are not going for America right now. Phony Money and Weather Drive We might as well start with the overnights elsewhere and the future’s pricing here because – as you know – the whole premise … Read More

The companion to the mini ebook “A Life of Gods” on time and task management is unveiled this morning.  This one deals with workstations and workflows.  My thinking is that once something shows up as a task, we need the “power tools” to dispatch it to the “done list.” A good bit of theory is … Read More

Want to know Ure’s System?  What did I tell you Monday?  You were paying attention, right? “No major economic news (other than opening bummer!).  Which, if we get lucky will not turn until tomorrow.  It’s the “How Bad Today?” part that’s hard to gauge.  Which is why we’re not in the Casino.” But you know … Read More

Disinflation is being screamed in commodity prices this morning. Could the Fed Chair be right? Transitory?  Lots to cover to sort this out. If you feel like (pardon this) your economic nuts are in a vise?  The explanation takes a minute but it’s worth your while. We do appear to be Replaying 1929 (the premise of … Read More

There you are.  One morning, America is going along all normal (like) and then suddenly flick.  With nothing more than the eerie sounds of silence (with a nod to S&G) we pass back into the 1800s as a space-based weapon of unknown origins takes down the grid and the internet. Calmly, you survey the panic building … Read More

With the stock market in the biggest losing streak in decades, we are beginning to see what may be the outlines of systemic collapse filling-in around the edges.  There’s a bunch of trouble out there and a short survey of problems immediately ahead seems appropriate grist for today’s review. In order to brace yourself for … Read More

“Roll out the whiteboard and hand me one of them markers to huff, wouldjah?” We begin with “refried markets” for breakfast. In case you slept through Thursday’s column, here’s the part you could have taken seriously, this chart: And, what did I tell you this picture of the pre-open gap Thursday might herald?  (I have … Read More

The whole “investment world” is Mad as a Hatter.  Worse. I would have figured on a day when the price of Oil was up better than five percent, the Supreme Court leaking “secrets“, more money coming for war in Nukraine, not to mention Buyedem proposing the largest family-busting income tax hike since LBJ wending its … Read More

A synthesis of goal planning and time management styles.  Since no one has “enough time” in the world, most “time management approaches” don’t focus enough on how things end up being scheduled in daily life. Apologies in advance – this morning’s report is a 60-page .PDF but after we go through MBO, Pomodoro, and all … Read More