It’s a math problem…although it sure looks like a  meth problem, as the US markets continue to “put on the beans” as we are living through the financial analogy to “Going to Mars.”  The Moon-shot point was passed a long time ago. Let’s begin with the breaking financial developments: The first is Housing Starts just … Read More

I mentioned on the Peoplenomics report Wednesday that the fellow who is probably America’s  best financial astrologer, Arch Crawford, was predicting a long-lasting impact – on the order of  years from an event – that would happen sometime in the past week. Well, to us, it looks like he has nailed it.  On the other hand, … Read More

Been working on some ideas for artificial intelligence (AI) to distill into a spreadsheet to make investment decisions.  Turns out, though, one of the most difficult things to model is how the human brain “creates” ideas. Importantly, there’s an aspect of “randomness” to it. But, since we have already evolved a model of Life as … Read More

Breaking news (although check with your checkbook, previously “broken”) here’s the latest on inflation in the Labor Department’s Cost of Surviving report just out: “The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.2 percent in December on a seasonally adjusted basis after rising 0.3 percent in November, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics … Read More

Having chased the news around in the 1960’s through 1980’s, the crap rolling-around today is mostly useless, though at times entertaining.  That said, this week shapes up to be not-particularly interesting. Downright boring, in fact. The short version of what matters is this: In our 1929 Replay Scenario, we continue to edge up toward that … Read More

If you haven’t deduced it by now, Ultra-Make.com is likely the main deliverable nearing the end of my next book “The 100-Year Toaster.”  The book is a critical view of the wrong-headed globalist resource squandering of the past 150-years and what we can do about it. Spoiler alert:  We need to  redenominate.  Because everything together … Read More

Looking for a simple path to a stress-free life in 2020? Bubba,  we gotcha covered! First, though, our usual run-down of a few news stories that matter and a longish anti-aging discussion.  From there it’s on to our ChartPack. The news that matters, you see, may not be Iran, Meghan, or Pelosi.  Could have more … Read More

User Changelog:  Readers interested in fastest possible page load speed for Urban can usual sale 1-1.2 seconds by  not just an ad-blocker.  1.4-1.6 second load times without ad-block, and 2.5-3.4 seconds in  GTMetrix.com analytics (unthrottled connection out of Dallas and Chrome desktop.  YMWV. Breaking News Jobs Report Still Up Just out from the Labor Department: … Read More

Changelog:  Completed SQL database work, saving 1.8gb (55.8%).  Speeded up chart loading (gold and silver charts at bottom of this page by removing embedded “size=” and “height-” calls, speeding up the html. Typical site load times are about 2-2.5 seconds now, down from 6-9 seconds before I went nuts attacking the speed issues.  Logo and … Read More

Here’s a trillion-dollar idea for you – free of charge. Complete with some general specification and what such a unit could do for America. It’s all an outgrowth of our Ultra-Make.com website, which in turn is one of the “last chapters” of the online book for subscribers titled “The 100-Year Toaster.” I’ll give you all … Read More

Reader Changelog:  I made a few changes to the website this morning that  may speed-up page loading.  For Your Inner Geek: we’re trying-out “lazy-loading” which simply means the whole page display doesn’t wait for a Google ad or the charts at the bottom to load.  May improve performance slightly…Also the maximum size in Accessibility scaling … Read More

Whew!  A looong-ass weekend of programming and writing for  Peoplenomics, the new Ultra-Make.com site, and even doing a few tweaks here like that fancy Accessibility/Font-Sizer over at the top of the right column over this way somewhere >>> A great weekend, nevertheless featuring (*don’t mean to go on endlessly, but the projects done list is … Read More

Had an interesting reader note come in:  Basically asked if I could please do an article on communications (for the SHTF scenarios) that would be simple and no “diode this” and “Morse that…”  Yup, guilty as charged.  Why, if I got a dollar for everytime someone said “Ask George what time it is and he’s … Read More