Prepping Alert: Time to Update Direct Web Addresses

As everyone is (or should be) aware, there will be more “demonstrations” and “protests” this weekend on the pretext of the George Floyd death.  Unfortunately, subversive and anti-American organizations of all political extremes will likely use the genuine expression of “peaceably assemble” and “free speech” as a justification for riots and further insurrection attempts. We … Read More

Buying the Rumor: Pick Your Generalization Filter

Plans are in the works for another notoriously unpopular book by George Ure.  “The Mad Scientist’s Lab Notes.” One of the core concepts, early-on in the book, is how we each wake up and put a Generalization Filter on our thinking. How Generalizations Filters Work To begin with, there are several types. Filters you evolve, … Read More

Jobs Are Going – So’s the Market: Physics of Collapse

You are no doubt aware of how sucky the job market is lately.  It’s only a ripple of worse to come, looks like.  The monthly Jobs Cut report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas sounds totally dismal: Nearly 1M Cuts Due to COVID-19 This Year. “Job cuts announced by U.S.-based employers totaled 397,016 in May, down … Read More

The “High-Photon Diet” (part 1)

As the darkness of society’s digitally-induced psychological break rolls over the world, we pause with some “new science ideas.”  After all, we can’t rewrite history (unless you’re a socialist Venezuela or Cuba “success story” believer, and our readerrs aren’t that stupid…). Being natural-born optimists, we choose to ignore the insurrection propaganda and focus, instead, on … Read More

Future Grimly: Equalling ’29 – Six Key Predictions

Forget the “flash bangs” on television.  Oh, sure, visuals in here are really captivating.  But, they are also a distraction from the Main Act – the coming collapse of the American economy.  And the Famine to come.  We don’t get balkanized without it. Prediction 1: Still Replaying 1929 Lots of readers have been wondering:  “Why … Read More

Here Comes the Money Play

On the CNBC website this is a shocking fulfillment of the prediction two weeks ago made to Peoplenomics.com subscribers.  Specifically, that we would see black reparations turned into the major issue in the presidential campaign. Take time to study:  “BET founder Robert Johnson calls for $14 trillion of reparations for slavery.” There are many ways … Read More

Protest? Riot? No – Insurrection

According to the stock market (Dow futures -flat) all the riots overnight (mislabeled “protests” by insurrection-supporting media) is insignificant to our economic future and financial horizons. Then again, so is coronavirus.  Because we are well past 6-million global cases and expecting 7-million within a week.  Plus, there are now more than 372-thousand global deaths.  Markets … Read More

Ham Radio Prepping: Quest for the Extra Decibel

I have made an AMAZING discovery.  But, unless you’re an electronics engineer, with an emphasis on RF design, this would be gibberish without first attending “Antenna School.”  So let’s do that.(..beats watching riots.) If you’re new to ham radio, I will lay this out as directly as possible – in order – because the name … Read More

Digital Gardening: Liberation or Insurrection?

Events this week again underscore America’s increasing ability to “talk-past” one another. Outrage in Minneapolis is justified. But rioting in other cities?  And further, is burning out a police precinct building even if the mayor seemed to clear the way for it? Helpful Hint:  Digital Gardeners send their vegetables to riot. In play is the … Read More

Fall-Apart Friday: Web Regs Pending

More tomorrow (“Digital Gardening: Liberation or Insurrection?”)  for our  Peoplenomics.com subscribers.  But the short version is “The Future has been lit” as president Trump seems to be catching up with what I was writing about in my 2012 book “Broken Web:  The Coming Collapse of the Internet. ” Bullet Points: As in the previous Depression, … Read More

Data Thursday, Fed Confessions, Crisis of Wave 2’s

A full plate this morning:  Some critical outlook data has just been released.  The Federal Reserve is about to replay its role as a “failed deity.”  And we can make some generalizations about herd behavior at the top of Wave II’s. We will once again shy away from memes and “virality” in our discussion of … Read More

On Reducing Your Operating Costs

A practical discussion and hints on reducing the cost of living. With more people working at home, the kids being home and all that, it’s harder to do. But “convention be damned” as we say around here.  Let’s see if we can’t find some ways to make home both affordable and enjoyable – especially now … Read More

Good News on Housing – Or IS it?

Let’s roll with the data in the Case-Shiller Housing data just out: “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 4.4% annual gain in March, up from 4.2% in the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in at 3.4%, up from 3.0% … Read More