Many people have “special interest’ workspaces.  But what if you have lots of interests?  Why, in no time at all, you will find all of your space – home, garage, all of it – eaten-up by a plethora of tools. Late summer is a good time of year to spend some quality “shop time” on … Read More

It’s a conditional  “Yes” – and while this is normally the kind of thing that we save for our  Peoplenomics.com subscribers, the reason UrbanSurvival is here is so a large following can track (and grade) our thinking on economic matters.  Even if we differ on the politics of free lunches and what-not. A bit of background … Read More

Breaking Data First:  The Chicago Fed National Acitivity Report (CFNAI) is hot off the printer: “The Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) ticked up to –0.02 in June from –0.03 in May. One of the four broad categories of indicators that make up the index increased from May, and two of the four categories made … Read More

We’re not big on conspiracy theories, except when we find one supported by the data!  It’s not simple to explain how we got there, but you may see, as I certainly did, the clear shadow of a “hidden hand” behind society-wide market moves. The problem – even more complex than the data sets – is … Read More

Around the ranch, there are so many “Fall prepping projects” it’s hard to keep track of ’em all.  The list is extensive but not  expensive.   Which is too bad – means I won’t be able to use cost as an excuse. See if any of these should go on your list: Tune-up Time for … Read More

As you may know, I set up and operate a website that simply reposts headlines (including breaking and financial) onto a “clean” website with no ads so  Nostracodeus project whizGrady has something he can use as “clean source” when dialing-in word frequency analysis of the news. I can point my old copy of  Nostracodeus at … Read More

It’s becoming almost laughable watching fraud squad attempts to take down Trump.  How does he stay ahead of the game?  With the wild-eyed left painting him with every pejorative in the limited hot-button vocabulary of radicals? Our military affairs contributor  warhammer lays it out this way: “I’ve been thinking about Trump’s blasting of ‘The Quad … Read More

Political distractions aside, the real news is under the surface this week. As the market claws its way higher, we are looking at much of the same data the Fed uses and coming to some interesting conclusions.  As a result, our normal “focus” piece will be an expanded ChartPack today with all eyes on where … Read More

Once again this morning, the lost souls of the Mainstream Media (LSMSM) are showing how disconnected from reality they remain.  After 2-1/2 years of no collusion, I can’t blame Trump for being pissed with Destructors whose only goal is to seize power in a phony left-wing “victim” coup and seize the fruits of all our … Read More

Forget the BS the MSM is putting out today.  There’s no election is sight and the news cycles are dominated by either Tropical Leftover Barry stories or the ongoing political absurdity that will drive any rational person to grab the remote.  Reruns of The Nanny are more interesting… This morning, we’re going to talk practical … Read More

No hype and no BS:  If the lights went out today, How long would you live?  I know, summer weekend and it’s not so bad, provided you don’t live down by the Gulf with Barry rolling in. If there’s one semi-regular pattern to highly successful people, it is this:  They do the most difficult things … Read More

This time of the year, millions of Americans take some time off.  One of the most popular ways to do this is by taking a ‘recreational vehicle’ and going somewhere.  But few people realize that to a large extent, RV’s had theirs roots in the original build-out of America. The February 1905 editions of Popular … Read More

With Dow futures up almost another hunsky before the open, the economic news is not so interesting as the “wave of the mob” so let’s till that ground for breakfast… Wrong picture, Drudge:  Today’s DrudgeReport shamefully puts up a picture of Donald Trump on a $20-bill to draw attention to a story about the Federal Deficit.  … Read More