For this to make a lot of sense, you will want to revisit the original September 30, 2018 article Project Big Ears here. The goal of the project, to refresh, is to build a high-performance Beverage Antenna using commonly available parts.  That first article was mostly the theory of what the project was about.  Today, … Read More

The fun resumes Monday, huh? Markets like this are difficult to trade, especially when this may only be a first wave down.  We have our eye on November 27th as a possible “bad hair day” for markets. This morning, a few ideas about time and price as we roll through the charts and fine-tune our … Read More

My longtime pal of 42-years, Gaye Levy, is not only a widely-acknowledged “princess of prepping” but she’s also one of the best sources on the Internet when comes to something called “essential oils.” Before we get into the specifics here, a few words about our “co-mingled histories.” In 1972, or so, we both lived in … Read More

These are not new to our ($40/year) Peoplenomics.com subscribers.  They’ve had these for a couple of weeks now.  But, we’re getting near-enough the “fish or cut bait levels” that it would be rude of us not to post them. Before reading these, you need to understand this is not trading advice but it IS the … Read More

Time for cooler heads – not empty ones – to prevail. I want you to notice something about these “bombings”.  Damn odd, too:  The amateur pipe bomb story has seize the public’s attention, riled markets, and has driven the Central America Invasion off the front pages now, less than two weeks from the important mid-term … Read More

This morning we make a steely-eyed assessment of a global move many Americans are missing:  A new wave down of our Global Index is screaming that what we went through with the January and March wash-outs could be just foreplay. There are a number of tools we apply to come to this notion.  Not the … Read More

You ARE going to write one -some day – aren’t you? When you get to be a little older than you are now, the topic of  “Measuring Your Life.”  will matter more – and maybe writing a book is one of those measures.  Sharing of information and lessons of Life is key.  Maybe you’ll write … Read More

The problem:  Could break up – or down. As you may know, this website began as my Master’s capstone back in 1998-1997.  It’s focus was originally Long Wave Economics and how will America cope when the financial crap hits the fan. The “dollar” has less than 4 percent of its 1913 purchasing power left. the … Read More

Honestly, there’s not a hell of a lot to write about this week.  We know the market is going down – and we know the Fed has arranged for a market low to happen around the time of the election. “You what job!  How could you POSSIBLY know that?” Let’s look at some data, shall … Read More

“George, prepping costs money.  You talk about getting debt-free and putting something aside for a rainy day, but dammit this all costs money.  Where’s THAT supposed to come from?” There are extremely simple answers to this obvious question. You know the way businesses are managed, right?  There are only three keys that you will EVER … Read More

A novel thought has crossed my mind while looking at the data – and particularly in retooling our “trading Golem” this week. Not completely original – since the idea is there in some of Didier Sornette’s work (see Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems ).  But, so far as I know, … Read More

In Case of Depression #2 today.  Since we covered some of the basics of the economic and social drivers already, so let’s move on to the “worst case” minimums to think about as we edge toward the uncertain future. We have seven quantitative measurements to consider:  Housing, Food, Environment, Communications, Transportation, Energy, and Finance. Together, … Read More

I mentioned this morning that the “hamburger menu” was not working right – but I think the problem is now fixed.  When you “hit the burger” on the upper right of your phone, the menu should now pop open. Traced back to a caching program that I’d gotten a bit too zealous about.  Thanks to … Read More