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

A lot of people – especially those smart enough to even consider prepping – will ask from time-to-time “What’s it like to really get out and do it – you know…conquer some land?” We recently turned off our RuralPioneer.com project, but there were a whole slew of great articles on the site about how to “get ‘er … Read More

This being a holiday weekend, and because a lot of people will have a bit of extra “personal time” tomorrow, it’s a dandy time to take a steely-eyed look into the future. The bull market the stock market has been in will end one of these days. The specific cause doesn’t matter.  What does matter … Read More

There’s a path opening in our modeling to yet-another event that could become a paving stone on the path to regional nuclear war. Not happy news to focus on, but a nickel’s worth of analysis is more than justified by evolving events today in Ukraine. More for Subscribers       ||| SUBSCRIBE NOW!       |||   Subscriber Help Center

I know what you’re thinking:  “George, how can you think of something like a chainsaw as a prepping tool???” Well, the answer is simple:  Once you leave the “call 9-1-1 for any problems – or the water department – or whatever – and you get back to Nature, you finds that nature isn’t going to … Read More

The longwave economics view brings many terrible thoughts to mind.  It’s like standing at the shoreline, sometimes, watching the tide come in.  Then realizing it’s a tsunami. Amidst the odd machinations of the news lately, we are reminded of a huge story lurking behind the headlines.  Namely that America has some exceptional drought impacts evolving. … Read More

With the quickly approaching Long Last Weekend of vacationing almost here, I’ll drop back into our “B-mode” today and tomorrow.  Short, punch, broadcast writing, since time is tight.  Especially if you’re heading out… The main point his morning – despite the temporary insanity being spread virally around Internet, there are still signs that all home … Read More

As you may have inferred from the article on the UrbanSurvival site Tuesday morning, we are taking on the task today or looking a bit more deeply into some of the possible timing marks that are coming along shortly if the historical rhyming with 1929 continues. It certainly is rhyming nicely on trade… We’ll get … Read More

One of our nephews is off to college now up in Tyler, Texas, where he’s hoping to do well in his chosen physical trainer program. Before he took off, we spent a little time a couple of weeks back and I helped him with some of the mental “prepping” for school that most people don’t … Read More

Just Out: “NEW YORK, AUGUST 28, 2018 – S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices. Data released today for June 2018 shows that home prices continued their rise across the country over the last 12 months. More than 27 years … Read More

Reader Note:  Look for the Housing Update at 8:15 AM (plus or minus coffee) so check back… How much of a Stock Bubble will the Trump Administration get? My consigliere and I talk about this on a regular basis and it all comes down to a combination of the social mood, technical innovation and change, … Read More

Here we go with another late-summer Monday in the “world gone insane.” Mass shooting, dead senator, and Hawaii cleanup dominating the news flow elsewhere… Like back in the day, when Disney theme parks had ride tickets (with things like Space Mountain being an “E” ticket) this would have been about a “B” ticket week. On … Read More

We recently decided to take down our www.ruralpioneers.com website, but there are a number of very useful articles buried in the archives of that site that should be considered today because they offer very valuable – timeless – advice to preppers and contingency planners of today. Here’s an example from 2004 where I wrote up … Read More