President Biden by Nightfall? Multiple data points are considered today by any American investor this morning that will shape our future.  An “Unfortunate Series of Dominoes” to play off the Lemony Snicket phrase. Beginning from then, we can outline the nightmare like this: Joe Biden has jumped to 253 Electoral votes overnight.  Donald Trump is … Read More

Stand by for America to “fix” a bunch of non-problems. As we awaken to a “revolution lacking but a match” it looks like lawyers – not voters or rational humans – will decide our next president. Rather than our typical drill-down into some important aspect of life, we instead focus today on a collection of … Read More

“Best President Money Can Buy” A report on  CNCB caught my eye while the coffee was kicking it today:  A hat-tip to CNBC.  Because in their article “Here’s the final tally of where tech billionaires donated for the 2020 election” they out that 98 percent of tech chiefs threw in with the socialists democrats (pardon … Read More

For Which It Stood The Election Doesn’t Matter.  Food matters, water matters, your personal stores of consumables matter.  But, the Election?  If you even care about it today, you don’t understand we could be in for weeks of conflict.  What you should be worried about is what “comes out the other end” of that process. In a … Read More

A Convenience Store Based Antenna Ham radio operators world-wide would love an antenna that is cheap, easily built out of locally available parts – and outperforms both standard dipole antennas and other commonly-built wires.  Well, here it is…. After almost a year of modeling our ideas for a “Super Antenna” the design was locked.  It … Read More

This follows our recent take on William S. Lind’s  book Retroculture.  After some thought, much of what advocates of “the old days” are after really comes down to mainly one thing:  Speed. Gone, for example, are times when people strove for individual breakthrough insights. Regardless of time spent getting there. In that style’s place has … Read More

Self Fulfilling News? As we grind through the final lousy hours of the election cycle, we’re eyeing a number of stories that smack of media manipulation, to us.  The idea being that if you grind and predict a certain outcome or future into people, they will act in a manner to make it so. With … Read More

Depends on  Your Zoom Level In the study of qi (qigong), the adept is advised to look for the mysteries on at least three levels:  The transient mysteries, the  great mysteries, and the  Grand mysteries.  (Some qigong practitioners prefer subtle wonder, mysterious wonder, and incredible wonder as classifications. Qigong teachings date back  thousands of years, emanating the mountain … Read More

A curious hybrid report this morning: economics with a side of woo-woo. Much has been written of a possible global reset.  But word in the “dream realms” is there’s something else to keep an eye on. As the election jitters continue to drive the markets down, we wonder just “how bad will it get” in … Read More

Just out is the monthly Case Shiller, S&P, CoreLogic (and whoever else) Housing report: “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 5.7% annual gain in August, up from 4.8% in the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in at 4.7%, up … Read More

A Week to Crisis – Prep On! Never – in almost 72 years – did I ever believe I would be prepping for a U.S. Election.  Yet, that’s our plan:  Everything topped off and ready for conditions to get bad.  Then get to worse. Here are some of the reasons: Democrats have been planning for several months … Read More

Are We Past “Peak Biden?” Looking at the early futures today – offers a view – to us – of a market trying to figure whether to “pack up and leave town this week” or wait until the (democrats have been planning for months) Election Chaos.   We figure it will tee-off next Tuesday night, … Read More

Ear Yee! Ear Yee! Hear all about it!  This is a fine weekend to work on your home sound system, isn’t it? We are going through a modest upgrade to the home studio here at UrbanSurvival in order to get back into podcasting with gear that sounds (slightly) better than run-of-the-mill podcasts. In the process, … Read More