Just out the new Case-Shiller, S&P, CoreLogic monthly Housing report.  I could have been better – things are very close to flat in the Month-on-Month data (before “corrections…”: “S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices. Data released today for August … Read More

We’ll post the Housing Price Index (C/S HPI) as a separate post when it comes out, so drop by about 8:15  Central for that. Couldn’t sleep, so up early, venom about market hype being our first topic du jour. Aggregate Index Calls BS 1998, or so, I began to develop an Aggregate Index.  Reason?  Single Market … Read More

CaliFires:  Someone of a conspiratorial mind-set might look at the unfolding disaster in the NorCal area and wonder if some evil force is behind the fires of late? In the latest, there’s part of I-80 closed near Vallejo, but worse, power  blackouts threaten nearly a million as what should be a workweek rolls around.  As … Read More

Know any fashion designers?  Want to make a million dollars and/or be nominated for a Nobel?  Well, read on… I’ve been thinking about a new coat design.  Yes, that’s right, “Mr. Has Everything”  ready does – including an  Ocean ATX Kevlar-reinforced offshore sailing jacket.  The kind going for almost $1-kilobuck these days; bought turning my … Read More

Been a while since I shared a “woo-woo” with you.  Believe me, it’s not for a lack of material.  That happens on an almost  daily basis. Take Friday, for example.  I needed a picture of piece of test equipment for the (now scheduled Wednesday) article on my “timer machine” build. So I grabbed a 16 … Read More

With all the attention in media to “fake news” we present a short course in sorting “wheat from chaff” today. Since I’ve got 50-years of reporting under my belt, I’ve been looking for a way to  teach anyone – in a matter of minutes – to sort “real news” from fake. Surprisingly, this is one … Read More

Back in 2012, as an extension of work on our Peoplenomics.com subscriber site, I took a look at the future of the Internet.  The result was my  book “Broken Web The Coming Collapse of the Internet.” As normal (for me), since I tend to “live 10-years in the future” on strategic issues, I’m turning out to … Read More

Say.  We’re going to have a nice short Ure-view of the world this morning for three reasons. I’m working on a bear of a software problem. The market is still lollygagging around that resistance line but may bust above it today. And the news flow today is equaled only by a sewage treatment center’s outflow. … Read More

Bad news:  The end of the world may not come with a bang, but instead with a whimper.  Looking at the general “flow of life” from the long-term perspective of a 70-something, there are disconcerting signs popping up all over. Yet few are able to put it into words.  So we’ll take up that mantle … Read More

I don’t make many claims of “wisdom” but more than 25 years ago, when I was finishing degree work (academic, not Masonic, lol) it vexed me no end that there was so much “painting of the tape” going on.  One index would veer higher (or lower) while not much else changed. In other words, there … Read More

With the power coming back on at 4:30 AM (and our thanks to the line crews of Trinity Valley Electric Co-op), many more pieces  were added to Wednesday’s upcoming  Peoplenomics report. A short sketch of it is in order, because it bears heavily on present times. My thesis is the world stands on the edge … Read More

We are under a tornado watch here in the East Texas Outback at this hour (3:40 AM).  And with the lights off, the winds howling, and on our backup power systems (with sat comms down due to high cloud and precip densities) we are down to bare-minimums today. Could be a while coming back, too.  … Read More

Some “way out” thinking is in order. Basics first:  Do you have, every moment of every day, an “instant escape plan” in mind?  If not, it may be time to at least begin mapping a personal remediation plan for this deficiency. Classes of Escape Plans:  At one level, you need such plans for land, air, … Read More