An intriguing question, for sure.  A few headlines, one of our key indicators flashes a warning, and worries of falling food production from drought… Just the stuff to get the mind on matters other than the battles of the Swamp Critters.  More for Subscribers       ||| SUBSCRIBE NOW!       |||   Subscriber Help Center

Ure is in a sour mood this morning.  No, not your fault.  Mine.  Because I don’t administer an IQ test before letting people read this site. It began  with a piss-ant troll commenting that “You were wrong” in yesterdays pre-opening comment. Oh? (Continues below)   WTF kind of loser would write that?  Sure, the Dow … Read More

You need to flip over first thing this morning to our Rural Pioneer (TM) website where Oilman2 has a dandy article worth a read: “Transhumanism, Robots, AI and Hopium.  Then go read his piece on tax burdens on working Americans. “Our American Burden” ought to raise your BP a few points.  OM2’s a great writer and … Read More

It isn’t that hard to see the future, at least when it comes to markets and where we go next.  There are a lot of tools that even us “small fry” investors can use to improve our odds, but a surprising number of people seem content to make a single decision and hold with a … Read More

If you’re going to be an urban survivor, you are going to have to “keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.” Since 1997, we have been “calling it like we see it” when comes to market, tech, and futuring.  We’ve used all kinds of tools to get there, but … Read More

“Watcha gonna do when they come for you? Bad bots, bad bots…” This morning we wander from Big Data, and Fat AI to the concepts that may birth Thin AI and then venture into some speculation about how that may impact future markets. But first a few headlines, including Housing Starts, and why Ures truly … Read More

Yeah, you know who I am talking about:  The Republicans In Name Only – the bait-and-switchers who talk a conservative game but when comes down to it are really moderate democrats in republican clothing so they could get elected. The same distribution curve is in place in Washington as always.  The only thing that has … Read More

One aspect of urban surviving is surviving freeway idiots.  I wanted to discuss with you a couple of ways to deal with road rage since on our way back from Oklahoma Sunday, coming through Dallas, we were beset by a whole field of NASCAR wannabe idiot pricks. One that stood out (I was 3 car … Read More

The “pause that refreshes?”  We shall see. About the most exciting thing about this particular Monday is the insanity of the media.  While outfits like CNN are running with 13 healthcare and anti-Trump, anti-right stories and just 6 stories on other news (in my display, YMMV) for a 68.42% anti-Trump, anti-healthcare reform ratio, our own … Read More

My friend Robin Landry is now really a ham radio operator. To be sure, he was before we got up to visit with him this weekend, but there is a certain initiation that goes with ham radio that most people don’t think about.  The common perception in ham radio is a sit-and-talk hobby and nothing … Read More

Elaine and I are in Oklahoma this weekend to meet with Robin Landry, who as I’ve told you many times, is one of the best long wave (and Elliott Wave) gurus out there. Because of the road trip, our report this morning will focus on just one thing:  How the  markets are doing exactly what … Read More

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