Since we’ve been writing about “UrbanSurvival” long before any of the “Johnny-come-lately’s” on the web (starting in ’98), our views on what’s “adequate prepping” have moderated a bit, over time. Here are the simplest, cheapest, and best ways we can think of to increase your personal preparedness in 2020. Spend $10-bucks a person on bottled … Read More

Even  approaching 71, no shortage of learning to do – much of it involuntarily.  Life keeps changing and one needs to “keep ahead of it.” An interesting example is the growing complexity of DAW (digital audio workstation) software.  Occasioned by our upcoming first Peoplenomics Podcast which is estimated to be out New Years Eve. Fortunately, … Read More

No, you don’t need to know Morse Code to be an effective ham radio operator. SKN comes on New Years Eve.  It’s “Straight Key Night.”  We’ll get into that, in a second. First a pitch for learning Morse code.  Light signaling (silently), having another way to communicate in event of a stroke or voice stifling … Read More

A couple of items on the stock market, best taken visually. One is the overall view of how periodic advances and declines in the stock market line-up in similar ways.  Nice way of saying “All collapses are self-similar” to one degree or another… OK, so.. When is “The Top” Here? This is a “What number … Read More

Sure, there are a number of “economic stories” we could lead with this morning.  But, weekly variances in mortgage applications at a time when part of the nation has been in the deep freeze and it’s a holiday week to boot?  Seriously? Of, later on, yet-another forecast of “investor confidence” will be out…but we don’t … Read More

First, a Merry Christmas and a very happy New Years, particularly our Peoplenomics.com subscribers. While we won’t have a long report this morning, we wanted to keep everyone updated on how this “replay of 1929” is going and toss around a few “where does it all end?” ideas. The short answer?  When the people who’ve … Read More

This being Christmas Eve Day, we have a lot to cover so I’ll keep the commentary light and the information density high. Market’s Nearing Peak? But when it comes, no one will know.  Main thing to hold in mind is that when you look back a year ago, and see that the market lows came … Read More

Breaking:  Durable Orders Crumble From the press release: “New orders for manufactured durable goods in November decreased $5.0 billion or 2.0 percent to $242.6 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced today.  This decrease, down two of the last three months, followed a 0.2 percent October increase.  Excluding transportation, new orders were virtually unchanged.  Excluding defense, … Read More

Life in the city is grand.  Everything convenient, all services close-at-hand.  Yet there’s something special about holidays in the woods… Let’s start with the food part.  Since there are only two of us this time around, we’re not doing a big meal for Christmas.  Honestly, it looks like a toss-up between a couple of slabs … Read More

More specifics than generalities now, as we roll through the details of what we think will happen in 2020. Already, we have seen Bitcoin drop under $7,000 as one of our outlooks seems poise to fulfill.  Though $7,132 at click time today. Other outlooks are not particularly “scary” if you are “system independent” but if … Read More

Once upon a time, I thought the people who were claiming Obama was the Anti-Christ were a bit crazy.  Yet now that we behold the democrats fielding their new Weapon of Mass Deception and Election Destruction, we have to admit to a certain admiration for how The Beast’s minions are thinking outside the box. Yes, … Read More

Hey!  Aren’t we American’s supposed to be smart?  Exceptionally, right? Well, if we’re so  smart, how come December is such a screwed-up month and we’ve put up with it?  Talk about conflicted…. The way I see it, there are 62 days in December and January, right?  Who says  there HAS to be?  We’ve put up with … Read More

Normally, our Annual Forecast is a single issue, but I wanted to try something  bit different this year.  Instead of going through our usual Major Systems of Life (food, shelter, transportation, energy, environment, and finance) I thought it would be useful to look at two overarching generalities, as well. So in Part 1, some comments … Read More