Before we get into today’s Employment Situation report just out, a word or two about tomorrow’s Peoplenomics.com column.  It has everything to do with “functional equivalents of famine.” Which matters today why?  What tips a “recession” into a “Depression” is those “left field” something else’s that come along.  There’s a list, but we think its … Read More

Breaking:  Challenger Job Cuts 2019 July Job Cut Report: 38,845 Cuts in July Led by Transportation, Industrial, Energy. The pace of downsizing slowed in July, as U.S.-based employers announced plans to cut 38,845 jobs from their payrolls, down 7.5% from the 41,977 cuts announced in June, according to the latest report on job cuts released … Read More

You can’t take it with you, but you don’t want to squander it, either.    So this morning, driven in part by my getting a 12-lead EKG prior to an upcoming hernia operation, we will look at how to win playing the “Old People” Money Game when age creeps into the upper double-digits. There are a … Read More

Reader Note:  Check back at 8:15 or so for the Housing report. Since there has been so much press lately about the alt.left and far.left crazies (like AoC with her ‘borrowed from Canada’ New Green Deal) how about we come up with something a bit more far-reaching and positive? By the way, Swing-state households would … Read More

It is an exceptionally (exponentially) busy week or two, so our morning reports will be (perhaps) shorter and more direct. We begin, sadly, with another mass murder.  This time in Gilroy, California which is south of the South Bay.  32- miles, where this weekend was the “Garlic Festival.” Three people attending the festival, including a … Read More

GMAFB:  The lefties and the the shambles of co-conspiring media are thrilled this Sunday that Donald Trump has referred to Baltimore, MD as a “rat infested mess.”   Wherever there are people (and the more tightly-packed) the more of problem rats pose. Yeah, they carry disease and Ebola is about to go global in our read … Read More

People in the South, near as I’ve discovered, don’t know exactly where the term “red-neck” came from.  But, at least in this part of Texas, to be a “red-neck” is right up with being a coon-ass from Loozy-anna. It’s more honor than insult.  Means you know a little something about self-reliance. Oh, sure, maybe escape … Read More

This sounds like a “dog ate my homework” but we really did have a dandy article planned and ready for this morning called Prepping:  Red-Neck Engineering… Sol come back tomorrow and I will post it on Sunday morning instead.  Damn curious that it disappeared on my, though…  Even stranger, the graphics are where they should … Read More

The revolution we forecast in 2005 with the appearance of desktop 3D printers is now here.  Open source 3D has gone very mainstream. We just waiting for the killer app (print files) that will make it all a must-have. Today, a look back at some of our work from the period and review how that … Read More

Ure’s three biggest worries?  Velocity at M2, the Fed decision next week, pending hernia operation.  Yeah, in about that order. Before we pull-apart this morning’s GDP report, let’s kick-it for a sec. and talk ask “What does it all mean?” Velocity at M2 is essentially the GPD divided my M2 Money.  At latest “official” calculation, … Read More

Durable goods and trade in a sec.  Something to get off my chest first. We actually know people off to the left of Texas who got up early (like 5 AM) in order to watch the coverage of the Mueller “event” staged, near as we can figure,  to keep the American public distracted and divided. … Read More

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