There are a few advantages in being an “old newsman.”  One of them is learning that oftentimes, by allowing ourselves to ask ridiculous questions, sometimes interesting possibilities resolve out of the Big Picture. War Games and Hurricane: It strikes me as a bit too coincidental that the Russians are having their biggest war games in … Read More

If the day’s news has left you feeling a bit dazed and confused, rest your troubled mind.  Things seem in an uproar constantly because of two facts. First, the world is “in transition” from 2-dimensional thinking into the 3-D world. Second, secular events are not labeled 2D or 3D so it requires a bit of … Read More

So, there we all are:  We wake up one morning and the world had ended. Someone has lit the “final fuse” in the Middle East, or that kid in charge of North Korea doesn’t like President Real Estate so much, after all.  Regardless: Either the “sh*t-stick” has been used or none of the damn lights … Read More

As usual, the “Old Newsman” in me isn’t worried about the stories passing in the headlines right now.  No, instead we are more focused at looking at longer-term implications of ongoing events; specifically Hurricane Florence. Keep in mind, my consigliere has a similar mindset, having worked part of his way through law school as a … Read More

I suppose this is an economic story.  I’ll explain how in a sec. When this hits, other than a lot of rain – more than a foot in places – there’s the interesting notion that hurricanes and other natural disasters are actually good for the economy. Short term, reading “Best’s Market Segment Report: Insurance-Linked Securities Market … Read More

I know what you’re thinking. “What do yah mean “cardboarding?  Never heard anything so stupid…” I mean real, honest-to-God cardboarding.  Making useful from leftovers. You see, if TSHTF, you will need to be able to improvise, adapt, and overcome.  This means having a handful of basic skills that get terribly overlooked on most (misnamed) prepping … Read More

In addition to charts this morning, we have an important update about personal online security for subscribers.  We reveal the latest evolution of online extortionists and how to protect yourself.  And it dates back a good ways… to an old password I used years ago. In addition to the usual “news check” and the ChartPack … Read More

A young man we know, who is in school away from home, was in a serious traffic accident a couple of weeks back.  He was OK, and so were the two other passengers and the driver of the second vehicle. The problem?  It was the young man’s fault. Like anything else in Life, though, there’s … Read More

Alex Jones has been banned for life from Twitter because they don’t like what he writes.  Problem is, they’re hiding behind a Terms of Service when in fact, they have just banned a questioning conservative who asks inconvenient  (OK, and sometimes dumb) questions. Twitter’s announced a life-time ban for InfoWars founder Alex Jones, telling us what … Read More

First thing out of the chute this morning we have the ADP and Challenger Job Cut numbers to go over.  These are in advance of the Federal jobs report tomorrow morning… Down in the detail of the press release, this caught our eye: “The pace of downsizing in August rose to the third-highest total for … Read More

One of the last classes I took in college (it was the first class in the doctoral track following the MBA) was something called “Business Research Methods.” Although the course book is now hopelessly out of date, the general idea of “personal research” into anything that grabs your attention is a fertile area of study.  … Read More

OK, you wake up tomorrow morning and the SHTF has actually happened.  People have gone crazy and there’s been a surprise EMP blast. Phones are down, your power is “iffy:” and you don’t know what will happen next… You whip out your EMP Emergency kit – and what’s in it? Good-quality shortwave radio.  A couple … Read More

With a fresh inch-and-a-half of rain in the gauge here at the ranch, the Labor Day weekend was marked mostly by an end to the drought that has nibbled at the edges of East Texas. And, after a respite early this week, we will be into the tropical storm – hurricane remnants by next weekend.  … Read More