The urbane survivor is not concerned with the Jt. email follies, nor on playing the side bets as to whether a do-nothing, all-talk congress will actually reform and get something done. Rather, there is in the news a flow of thought about money – how to get, how to manage, and how to spend it.  … Read More

Elaine and I are off on what will pass this summer as “vacation” but it’s hardly that.  While we will be seeing a show on our soiree to Shawnee, Oklahoma today, and sure – testing out my “edge of Gaussian” gambling theory I wrote up in Peoplenomics a while back – a lot of the weekend … Read More

Yeah, we are feeling vindicated by the market action Wednesday.  Because as expected, the “Janet Effect” worked and that has broken the market out of a short-term trend and it clears the way for the final climb to our long-predicted August 21st area all time highs. Along the way, we should see gold come back … Read More

There we were late Wednesday:  A local freight forwarder got our new Gold’s Gym here about 4:30 PM, or thereabouts. The woman who owns the outfit was very pleasant and in two shakes, her son who works with her in the business had 230-pounds of gym off the truck and into the driveway. Great!  (But … Read More

What might make the pending Second Depression worse than the first is that we could have multiple systems crashing at once. Not just a change of technology causing layoffs and bankruptcies in the farming set.Oh, no, something much grander.  Picture terrorism, energy, housing, and pensions blowing up as a kind of grand mal seizure…that’s the … Read More

Big story today is the WaPo’s The Daily 202: Email to Donald Trump Jr. could be a smoking gun, as Russia connections deepen. Sadly, I haven’t found a source anywhere that offers a copy of the email itself – only reports (and reports on reports).  It’s like that game of whisper in school.  By the … Read More

Although it is an article of faith around here that everyone understands how recording studios actually work, that seems to be far from the truth of it. Most people – when asked – will tell you they have “a pretty good ear” and yet when you ask them about something they just heard, you get … Read More

Wheat is our eye-opener today. First comes word from Time magazine that The Vatican Says Gluten-Free Wafers Can’t Be Used for Communion.  Perhaps Catholicism doesn’t need celiac sprue sufferers or maybe they just missed the book Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health.  Wheat isn’t Rome’s only PR … Read More

Say, kiddies (which means Millennials):  Pay attention to ‘de ol’ man here:  Ain’t no such thing as retirement.  At least IF you have an active mind. I’ve had a couple of pleasant emails from classmates who graduated with me back in 1967 from high school in Seattle. We will miss this week’s reunion up north … Read More

Yes, there are. True, many of the world’s problems can be addressed – for a while – by adding layers of complexity.  No question. But how many such layers of complexity can be “piled on?”  That’s the rub… Toss this in with the charts and it’s a nice summer morning of deep thoughts… (How’s this … Read More

Before we get into the jobs report (just out) and the latest madness that seems to travel the G20 circuit, a word – or three – about personal trading. Although we don’t offer financial advice, either here or on the premium content Peoplenomics.com site, we have evolved a fairly interesting view of the markets. The … Read More

Our last mental enema of the week as we try to keep the unconventional UrbanSurvival mentality is to upload another cup of liquid speed and ponder that which the zombies (programmed by the Collapsing News Networks) are too stupid  – or too busy trying to get laid on Tinder – to figure out. First let … Read More

Before we wander through this morning’s long list of interesting news, we need to say something about where the anti-Trump spin in coming from.  A lot of this was laid out in Peoplenomics.com this week, but I wanted to mention it here, as well. When comes to “fake news” it’s looking more and more like we … Read More