I was doing some house-cleaning Thursday and found a column that I’d never gotten around to posting.  Since I’ll be on CoastToCoast next week, which usually brings a younger crowd wandering through, seemed like a good time to post it. I should have tossed into my earlier book, The Millennial’s Missing Manual: What School Didn’t … Read More

World’s a crazy place these days.  Young people, who should be having the time of their lives, forming families, making professional investments in themselves, and achieving high states of personal excellence have mainly, as a group, downgraded themselves to phone-zombies.  Shame, that.  (Ref URL “Smartphone Addiction Creates Imbalance in Brain .”) To make “grown-up” finance accessible … Read More

The Ure household is nominally non-denominational. But, that doesn’t blind us to the fact that there is now – and always has been – an ongoing battle between forces of “evil” and “good.” To the point:  We are seeing a number of indicators this year that are telling us in no uncertain terms, that this … Read More

Here is a question that will intrigue you if you look for any length of time at Long Wave Economics.  Are there substitutes for ‘war’?  If so, how would government test-bed an economic substitute?  Not too many hints should be needed:  Simply think Satoshi.’  The New World Order’s plan to take down the financial system … Read More

The news flow this morning is amazing. First thing out of the hopper is that Bitcoin has gone all the way to the $10,000 level. I’ve had several people tell me “Stupid old man!  Bitcoin is not just a new kind of medium of exchange!” (Continues below)   Well, maybe,  but then again, maybe not. … Read More

This has not been a peachy week for the Ure household. Not!  I have been going through one of the worst Mercury Retrogrades ever.  I could almost feel this one coming two weeks back, thinking through things. A word about Mercury in Retrograde:  Like other planets, the apparent motion of Mercury is usually “normal” but a few … Read More

I have been writing for nearly a year, now, about how “Obama embeds” have been throwing roadblocks up to the Trump administration at every turn. That includes liberally interpreted legal decisions on things like selective immigration policies, embeds in agencies who haven’t been replaced (or worked-around) and all those leaks.  Billions and billions of leaks … Read More

Yeah, sure, the Thanksgiving turkey was amazing.  But then again, so was the “turkey hangover.”  We’re just not used to eating that kind of rich food around here. Until Thanksgiving, we have both been in really good shape – and while we eat meat, it’s generally not processed and it’s generally not including much wheat … Read More

This past week, I was telling you about how it seems to me  that there is a distinct lack of “adventure” in America among the Millennials. Sure, life’s hard, sorting out what gender and which of umpteen programming jobs they want.  But after the charts today and a few headlines, a real treat.  A buddy … Read More

This is the day a good part of America goes nuts.  Bonkers, bahzitsu, meshuga… We expect treatment stations for seasonal illnesses such as “click sprain” and “credit card burn” plus “package-induced back strains” will be full by mid-afternoon. This being Black Friday, as always, odds are good that you’ll be hitting the major sites, too. Sadly, we … Read More

But then again, nothing really good using happens without some sacrifice…. Here’s the Thanksgiving video we did back in 2001 when we were still living on the boat and sailing SF Bay.  Land behind us was SF Airport area.  Hunter’s point is off to port somewhere…   Have a blessed and marvelous day.  Don’t lay down after … Read More

With a year from the election of Donald Trump, it’s time to begin work on our economics (and therefore market) outlooks for 2018. As a starting point for this seasonal review I wanted to begin this morning with a look at two years of data in order to assess whether economic  progress has been “real” … Read More

While we’ve been yammering on about how there would likely be a “turkey rally” ahead of the holiday, this is getting downright stupid. Monday’s trading session saw a liberal dose of tape-painting – which is what you call it when one index soars while the rest are left in the dust. Monday it was the … Read More