TL;DR: “Federal jobs spin keeps markets swallowing anything, even marginal new highs. Trump headlines dominate, and a new frontier in mind amplification is emerging. The fog thickens—here’s what it means.” Jobs Fog  Jethro Tull meets economics? Getting thick as a brick out there.  Lackluster growth in the ADP numbers and the Challenger job cuts report … Read More

Yes.  13-days out from the 17th when the FOMC rate decision will be announced.  Before we lay out this morning’s ADP and Challenger job numbers – ahead of tomorrow’s Federal data – a word about the Fed. I’m working on a longer piece for our Peoplenomics.com subscribers (they get rhyme and verse). But, the general idea … Read More

Wherein we propose that Psychology and Medicine have missed something huge.  It’s our noticing that humans – like computers – have differing performance based on indexing strategies.  A lesson rediscovered as Ai has advanced. I asked Ai to assess this theory and the feedback was positive: “The idea that humans can learn from AI about … Read More

Updating our chart from the preopen with 15-minutes of trading in: This is not trading advice. (Got Depends?) -ure

Weekend here in the woods was fractured:  Research & writing, binge watching (Dark Wolf, Butterfly on Amazon), and modeling inflation ahead. The research breakthrough is in how people “Index Life.”  (I’ll also tell you about my best-ever spaghetti, too…) To us, present times are strong on the 1929 Replay vibe, but it riffs off one … Read More

US Markets are closed. Labor(ing) Day. Inflation Will Save Us! (???) Even though it’s a “day off” our net worth keeps stacking up. Why?  Well, I am the guy who said “load the boat on silver” when we were out in Burbank on a contract job back in 2005. Under $7 an ounce… Let this sink … Read More

The UrbanSurvival AI User and Researcher School offers more to learn about AI: Ai_Users/Formatics/Hidden_Guild_Field Manual – Hidden Guild While you’re there, be sure to look at the evolving body of knowledge we’re capturing over there… -Ure

Relax.  Sit down and take a load off.  There’s a lot to talk about (other than my week blowing up because of hackers (@#$%^&*).  We have several topics that will give you a real sense of what owning “big property” is all about.  People in the city, way we hear it, actually exist, who have … Read More

G.A. Stewart’s post on  his The Age of Desolation website is awesome. He’s gotten into ChatGPT in CHATGPT AND G. A. STEWART’S VERSION OF NOSTRADAMUS – THE AGE OF DESOLATION. Must read. Two items for Stu: My Hidden Guild website https://hiddenguild.dev offers a ton of ideas of how to better human-partner Ai into the loop. … Read More

No rest for the Worked on a holiday weekend.  Our web side problems have been fixed, the market may be too:  Fixed and set for a major decline. A quick roll through the headlines is in order, but not too much coffee:  Too much caffeine buzz on a “personal day” seems like overkill. The long … Read More

Reader Note:  If EVER UrbanSurvival is attacked (like it is at the moment) remember to click over to the Peoplenomics.com site (<<- bookmark it!).  The “inside” of the Peoplenomics site is in old-fashioned, but harder to dick-around with HTTP direct.  Yeah, guess I am a throwback. Holiday sag in a second, but you know you’ve … Read More

Bashing head into wall, trying to troubleshoot website issues.  So if this gets cranky sounding, it’s just me (I’ll get into it later in the Around the Ranch part…) Best stick to the grindstone in moods like this:  So let’s start with GDP: Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 3.3 … Read More

Is Death an individual thing? You know that even more important than money  – which is not transportable post-life Realms – is having a soul mate, Right? With a long holiday weekend about to open, we take pause to consider a very deep subject: A question never discussed in “polite” company.  We’ve never stood on … Read More