Just out from Case-Shiller/S&P/CoreLogic: “YEAR-OVER-YEAR The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 12.0% annual gain in February, up from 11.2% in the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in at 11.7%, up from 10.9% in the previous month. The 20-City Composite posted … Read More
More coming for subscribers to our Peoplenomics.com site tomorrow. But if you want to “sense future” a bit, roll with this CNBC video via MSN which look at what roaring commodity prices may bring. A bit of strategy discussion tomorrow. Meanwhile, though, the Biden stock market is the strongest opening role since Dwight Eisenhower took … Read More
“This here is what’cha call a “target rich environment” to kick-off the week. Early Futures Don’t Tell The Dow Futures were up 8,, the S&P down 4-1/2 and the NASDAQ down 40. But with better’n two-hours to the open. Useless since no consensus there. This week (Palm Sunday week in Orthodox, Easter Sunday next weekend) … Read More
We used to spend $600+ per year on pest control. Now? Less than $150 and a little bit of time. Pest Control and Time This is a dandy example of the UrbanSurvival philosophy in action: Select the lowest cost Vendor. And remember, you can be the Vendor! Begin by remembering that your time is worth something. You … Read More
Couldn’t resist: From LOOB: I Got a request for peanut butter cookies from a cake mix from an old friend that asked me to share it. so here it is.. thank god for my daughter who first turned me on to making cookies with cake mixes.. they are the best.. although when shopping for cake … Read More
Our Saturday ChartPack teases some interesting problems for the coming week. What we cannot possibly know, however, is how the Fed will response to increasing pressures. Toss in the “weak” Russian stand-back from Ukraine and several other low intensity conflicts and a historical parallel to World War I appears. Yep, complete with a Spanish Flu … Read More
Although we had a good-sized pullback in the market Thursday, it’s far from conclusive which way this pig-of-a-market will fly. The green and blue traces Mr. Artist (lol) has penciled in seem to be indecisive today: The blue track is currently favored and the (crude, amateurish) small numbers lay out the Elliott possibilities for the … Read More
Reader Advisory First: Three changes in our operations here to be aware of. First. I have made a few tweaks in appearance and performance of the various websites that keep me busy. As of this morning, our Google Page Speed ranking for Urban is 87/97 (mobile/desktop), Peoplenomics is 100/100, ComputationalFuture is 98/99 and Ultra-Make is … Read More
An exercise in Future Forecasting comes into view. We take a concept from our “Invention Day” last Sunday and explore whether we can make a reasonable future forecast based on changing differential growth rates. If that sounds daunting, don’t run away and hide. Because, dear reader, you too are living in the Land of More. … Read More
This being Adolph Hitler’s birthday, we have a natural inclination to be especially on guard against evil and its followers this week. And although we still h0ld that events which [MIGHT] lead to WW III will not happen until Orthodox Easter (May 2), what concerns us now is the degree of coming ripples in the … Read More
“Effective News Reading” may be our “tag cloud” this week. Since there is little “economic news” this morning, I’ll subject you to a “free-form ramble.” Because there is a major shift in Future possibly approaching. Please don’t take this as an “anti-news” piece. More like? Analysis from the subconscious. Distilled – yet only partly clarified. … Read More
A garden note to begin with. I have been happy with those “poo pots” for starting plants in. However, one oddity this week. Went up to the garden to water only to discover that an animal had dug out a couple of them and had taken a bite out of the container. I suspect a … Read More
There is only one way out of Depression: Destroying savings. However, there are two ways to go about that. In this morning’s report, we lay out what looks to us like a coming hyperinflation. It has some amazing implications for life and investing. We’re moving into the economic Twilight Zone. Where things of no value … Read More