This snip from Wikipedia will fill you in on all the historical groundwork to this being a holiday and anchor our following discussion: Beginning in the late 19th century, as the trade union and labor movements grew, different groups of trade unionists chose a variety of days on which to celebrate labor. In the United … Read More

A buddy of mine asked about buying a commercial “solar power source” for camping.  You know the story, got a new trailer, don’t want a big noise-maker. After I jumped up and down and screams “Don’t do it!” at the top of my lungs, it occurred to me that a lot of people in Post-Harvey … Read More

We will be looking for the flashing lights to go on in the school zones next week as it’s back to school (B2S) for many districts next week.  But for this morning, I’d like to remind you of something called “The Holiday Effect.” This being a long weekend, people tend to be happy (for reasons that … Read More

Reader Note: Due to a computer typo, this morning’s Coping section is the one that was scheduled for Thursday.  Coping section for today will appear Monday, and so on… Confused?  Take a number… Since I’ve spent a good deal of time with “news: the business model” I thought you might find a discussion about how to … Read More

I explained this to you on Tuesday in the article “TRLM: The Red Line Matters” over here. In that lil gem you will find this bit of advice: “When the main Index (black line) crosses OVER the RED line, be LONG.  When the BLACK line crosses UNDER  the RED, be SHORT.” (Continues below)\ Which is … Read More

In today’s exciting episode, we answer two important questions. The first is:  “What is the impact of a major hurricane on stock markets? ” We are guided by some historical data. The second is “What will happen in the market over the rest of this week?” We’ll skip the coffee, kibbles, snivels, and drivel..Hurricane recovery … Read More

Not yet in the MSM/SnoozeMedia:  My consigliere pointed this out to us: The South Texas Nuclear Project Electric Generating Station (also known as STNP, STPEGS, South Texas Nuclear Project), is a nuclear power station southwest of Bay City, Texas, United States. The STNP occupies a 12,200-acre (4,900 ha) site on the Colorado River about 90 miles … Read More

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, we are set to get a thorough soaking over the next couple of days “up the hill” from the Houston hell hole. When the weather turns bad, something I learned from living on a sailboat for more than a decade, is food never tastes so good as in stormy … Read More

America is delusional – but worse, the ailment has spread to our formerly respected news media.  This come at an inconvenient time, too:  Some 30,000 people are likely homeless from Hurricane Harvey. Evidence (again) of our national breakdown came this morning as I hit Google’s search tools to find out a few things.  As expected, … Read More

We kept in touch with Oilman2 over the weekend because he’s down in the Houston area.  We like to have eyes & boots on the ground and offer to help, if we can. As it turns out, though,  he didn’t have any water problems at his home in The Woodlands area.  That’s just north of … Read More

Maybe it’s the weather.  Or, having my UrbanSurvival website go down on Friday and spending from 8:15 in the morning until about 2:15 in the afternoon fixing that – all while having contact lenses issues from all the computer-time.  And then writing until 4 PM to finish today’s report… Whatever the reason, though, Ures truly … Read More

Oh, they don’t come out and say they are dialing it back now.  But sometimes, facts speak louder the words. We flipped to the weekly Fed. H.6 Money Stocks report, updated last night, and see that in the three month window ending June 30, the annual rate of M1 (cash and demand deposits) was going … Read More

Back in our “sailing days” when UrbanSurvival was young, and we were living on our sailboat in San Francisco (video), we would go out into “Hurricane Alley” on a regular basis and do the “Sausalito beat” to weather, up past Alcatraz, while the tour boats zigged their way around us and the big “meter” boats … Read More