Pardon the overdose of “down-home-ness” but sometimes you  have to unplug from the messy data flow – which lately has been running like Class 5 whitewater rapids – and just “be one with the charts.” Fortunately, lacking any other kind of self-introspection capability, I stare at them day-in and day-out. This is a chart of … Read More

Reader Note:  We turned the ad flow down so there should be fewer of those full page splash ads on phones.  Also, we got rid of some other problems so the site should be back to fast and stable now and loading fairly fast.  Let me know if you find anything broken!  I’ll skip the … Read More

We are always a bit suspicious of the market when we close down like we did Wednesday and then in the pre-open, the futures were pointing to a nearly 200-point rise before the CPI Report came out.  Here’s what it looked like when released in the past few minutes: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban … Read More

A couple of readers Wednesday noticed that a few things on UrbanSurvival stopped working for a while.  For example, our “header image” went missing for a couple of hours.  And when it came back, the next issue was when people wanted to make a reply to a comment, that button was missing. As of this … Read More

Is World War III underway already except no one knows it because it’s hidden in plain sight?  Are you immune to it yourself because you fail to view your phone or computer as a “battle space viewer?”  Strong case to be made for that… one that who;s we’re locked in an unwitting World War Web. … Read More

Our view of economics data is just settling now.  Been up since 1:30 this morning, in fact, working on several items for the in-depth on Peoplenomics tomorrow. The super-short version (free, lol) is that there is a case for a “soft summer rise” into about the middle of August, after which a slide into the … Read More

This may seem like a strange topic, but when we get into the hot part of summer its often the best time of the year to go shopping for cold-weather goods. A few idea on how to get the most for your money are implied in this approach which distills down to “Buying when other … Read More

Here we go again, kiddies:  Order in the Court! We are expecting the social media revolutionaries (e.g. the Webolutionaries) to do everything they can to stop president Trump’s Supreme Court pick when it’s announced later today. You see, it looks like there’s NO ONE Trump could name who would keep the radicalized social-media uprising happy.  Let’s … Read More

I told you week, or so, back that Elaine and I were getting a gaming table because we had one room in the house that didn’t have a defined purpose. In our (admittedly odd) way of approaching home design, each room ought to have a specific mission.  Workstations for all activities one enjoys. There are “sleep rooms” … Read More

Say, here’s an ugly thing to be thinking about – like you need a few more, right? How will you react and cope if the Web were to go down? As we know, thanks to social media, we are in  what can only be described as a digital uprising – that which we label The … Read More

Boy, is there ever a load of crap to wrap your head around.  But, as luck would have it, this morning the thinking cap has been on as I’ve been  working on part of my next book.  Specifically, writing the chapter Toward a Computational Psychology really helps sorting through a complex world. The reason is … Read More

No “Coping/Prepping” section this morning. That’s because of the long Peoplenomics report for subscribers tomorrow and an additional chapter being added to my next book “Psychocartography:  The Reality Stacks.” The added last (for now, lol) chapter will be “Toward a Computational Psychology.” Back to what passes for normal Monday.

“Say what?” I’ve been moaning and groaning for several weeks about how America is in a pitched-battle between  the elected “constitutional” government and upstart Digital Mob Rule on the Internet.  (See our Fourth of July graphic here, if you’re not following.) Just yesterday, another HUGE social media manipulation as a woman climbed part of the … Read More