Can we blame the 460-point Dow drop Friday on the end of a political election report? Because of travel, we will have an exceptionally short report this morning.  Assisted by an ill-timed Microsoft update that stole an hour of work time.  But, not like we’re the first victims under that bus. For those wondering, yes … Read More

A major part of prepping is “keeping sharp” on those skills that you have earned over time.  Like any set of muscles, they are guaranteed to deteriorate over time. You have three skill areas to be concerned with: Mental skills: Physical skills And mixed skills Let’s run through some of them and see how fast … Read More

Sitting in a casino hotel in Oklahoma at 5 AM writing, it’s just not right to think about doing a chi-square analysis for you.  I’m, trying to “unlax” a bit, since re-laxing presumes a preceding “lax” has occurred.  Not so. We haven’t seen hide nor hair of “lax.” Before I regale you (assuming you knew gale, lol) … Read More

Yes.  Climate has been changing ever since the Laurentide Ice Sheet began to pull back from places farther south than Chicago.  St. Louis, perhaps? Three serious reality checks:  No amount of political hype shuck and jive would have changed the ultra-slow motion melting. Second reality check:  The world was never intended to support well north of … Read More

It’s one more “world-ending” threat to consider.  Unlike the odds of a full-on nuclear exchange between parties on the Indian subcontinent, we don’t hear much in the daily fear-mongering about what could happen if the world got too much really good news from the field of medicine. Rather than monger, though, we’ll look at an … Read More

In my 2012 book Broken Web (see “books” in menu) I forecast that the USA would, shortly after our big economic break (just ahead, though possible this Fall) that we would replay the outbreak of federal regulatory powers that culminated in the Communications Act of 1934.  This Act, I noted, effectively seized and controlled the … Read More

The US Federal Reserve’s Open Market meeting begins tomorrow and honestly, there’s not much change in “the conventional wisdom” that they likely won’t raise rates this time. The reason is computer modeling that suggests, based on recent work by former Fed-boss Ben Bernanke (et al), that Lower For Longer” (L4L) is the best course for … Read More

Installation is simple…but not really… Today we cover the actual installation of solar panels and how to figure where to point them in the sky.  After which, we go through some of the final power-center considerations and then start to wire things up. But all that will have to wait as we go through a … Read More

My buddy JB asked a dandy question in an email earlier this week: “What cables (and other stuff) are needed to hook up a ham radio system to a router or computer in case we get Venezuela’ d? As you know I have the hams and the generators but am not certain what buyable cables … Read More

Got up early to work on Peoplenomics for tomorrow and blam!  First news story was about how nearly 50 people were killed in two shootings at mosques in New Zealand.  NY Times coverage here has lots of detail. There’s a lot of anti-immigrant sentiments to be found in this latest case: NZ manifesto resembles Norway … Read More

In keeping with our “nominal” economics (and prepping!) bent, we begin today with a look at some well-aged import price data from BLS. Prices for U.S. imports advanced 0.6 percent in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today, after ticking up 0.1 percent in January and falling 1.4 percent in December. The February … Read More

Data-driven oddities to note before and after TSHTF A lot of UrbanSurvival readers think our Peoplenomics.com site is only about playing markets, saving for retirement and generally getting one-up on The Money Game. Surprise!   It’s not. It’s really about getting the most out of life and we broadly define that as our transactional relationships with … Read More

Cast Members Only time:  We covered this (and  more) in a recent Peoplenomics column about how we are “Imagineering” our home.  That discussion also went into the “Imagineering processes” used by “Walt Disney Imagineering” (WDI) and how those processes can be applied easily to business model design. Today, for the less drill-down oriented, I wanted … Read More