After a useless debate last night, both political parties are ready to sacrifice America for political ends, seems to us.   And there is a legit need for a stimulus bill before voting: Officials Call for Quick Stimulus Deal to Forestall Lackluster U.S. Economic Recovery. Call all they want… we don’t see it. Politics over … Read More

Kudos First As always, my friend Chris Tyreman up in Saskatchewan came through with the PERFECT heading for our Ultra-Make.com 3D printing website.  Take a look.  As you’ll see, the “feel” (graphically) of Urban, Peoplenomics, and Ultra-Make is now somewhat in alignment.  Revealing how “deeply conflicted” we get around here sometimes:  There are many ways … Read More

We pass a major milestone in the ongoing adventures of Peoplenomics.  Today marks our 1000th weekly since we first published deeper thoughts online in 1999. Our focus today is on two prospects competing to dominate our future.  One is called “Retroculture.”  A concept of returning to those “…thrilling days of yester-year…” But this is offset … Read More

Instrument Check! Takes me back to my flying days.  Checklists Galore! And they work great for keeping a lot of variables arranged for safe travel into an uncertain future. Checklists facilitate something called RKA.  We don’t talk about it much here (*more on the Peoplenomics subscriber site).  It means  Rapid Knowledge Acquisition. When you couple … Read More

What We Said About Currency Early Futures on a ‘do-nothing’ Monday gave us an ideal example of how to discern whether Forex (foreign exchange/currency trading) was in the ‘drivers seat’ or whethere  value mattered any more. The answer is not particularly encouraging. We noted on the Euro to Dollar chart from Kitco that the dollar … Read More

Site Work Done — (Yes???) Done!!! (?)  OK, Frisbee – check it out.  UrbanSurvival should be loading a bit faster now and says on all the fancy software ‘meters’ it’s working.  Links seem to be there, people comments and remarks are appearing…and so forth. It will take a little time to move around the web, as … Read More

Odds of me getting the major speed increase, CMS platform change –  on UrbanSurvival done this weekend?  Zero. Reason?  Competing priorities which (frankly) are more fun. This morning we have three “topics from the heart.”  All centered around that which we do that makes us human.  Other than crows (and a few other animals) humans … Read More

Wednesday will be “Issue #1,000” of Peoplenomics.  Time to pull 20-odd years of study into something for posterity.  Or, was that posterior? The only thing to rival the insanity of the Digital Uprising and quickly emerging Digital Mob Rule is the political process.  Not much of a choice. If you haven’t taken the time to … Read More

Retail Holds Up One thing about being at home:  People are changing their lifestyles around to cope with the still spiraling Covid-19. You can almost feel it around here:  More “chair time” means a new chair.  New chair?  Well, you need a new chair mat, right?  Long as we’re at it, new keyboard..new…well, you have … Read More

Many Data Points Let’s go back to what we told our Peoplenomics.com subscribers Wednesday morning: “Options Week Slaughter?” Dow Futures already down 310.  On top of the Wednesday decline.  (I’ll try not to pull my shoulder patting myself on the back, lol.) With markets up 7% (in our Aggregated view – +225% annualized) we were … Read More

A change of pace today as we look at a couple of historical oddities. Feels like a fine time to “get unstuck” from the pre-election frenzy.  Because if you’re like us, this has become pretty sickening. Still, we stick to our long-term roots in cyclical economics as the ChartPack reveals some interesting information about what … Read More

Dueling Data Again Making Sense out of this ‘flipped out’ world is our fascination around here.  Because at every turn, there are red flags the Bull market ignores. After new economic data, the Dow futures were down half a percent, but with online fever going around, NASDAQ futures were up 8-10ths of a percent. The … Read More

Stimulus – The “Reality Gap” We’ve been warning you for months not to expect a second economic stimulus until after the election.  Although the market is on pins and needles – waiting for a rally on any hint of breakthrough – we’re as sorely cynical as ever. CNBC’s been running with U.S. stock futures little … Read More