Local power company had the lights on in just over 90-minutes last night. Following the big East Texas Blizzard of ’21. All the parts of the operation here that “fail-over” to backups worked fine. Lights off in the house was actually a pleasant change. Too lazy to dip into our 500 gallons of propane for … Read More
While America’s attention is riveted on events in D.C. we have remained steadfastly focused on how our “1929 Replay Tracking” chart has been evolving. Here’s how it looked this morning; prior to the federal jobs report and using early futures pricing: It’s axiomatic in comparative economic cycles work that “waveforms” are usually similar. The question … Read More
TL;DR: You can see the headlines solidifying now: MAGA fractures, Biden to Cheney Funeral, and more. But the market loves a good story of long-division. With GovUp plodding, we’re hiding out from noise. Long-Division Time In the mid 1960s, I was part of the original New Math kids. The Russian launch of Sputnik a few years earlier … Read More
This is not a normal Sunday. We’re staring into a week that has more moving parts than most months get, and they’re grinding together in ways that could spark real trouble. If you’ve lived long enough, you know the smoke smell comes before the flames. This is one of those times. We’ve caught the “whiff … 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
Learning From Our Kids When you creep up into your 70s, one of the things you wonder is “Gee, if I were younger, how would I live in today’s world?” I’m fortunate. I consider the offspring: One daughter is a mental health counselor, working on a masters. The other daughter is going up the food … Read More
Many years ago, back when I was protecting Fairbanks (and later Anchorage) from a sneak attack by the Russians, I got to spend a bit of time with my late aunt Isabel. She was one of the first female CPAs in Alaska, and the first female contracting officer at Elmendorf, AFB. Besides introducing me (then 19) to the joys of fresh crab picked up on a tour of Portage Glacier, and washing it down with Champale (what ever happened to it?), she was also able to whip up the best sourdough pancakes on the planet. I don’t know why they struck me as they did, perhaps it was the first time that I’d ever had some really good sourdough.