I’ll tell you what it is,  in a single word, too: Depreciation. It’s a complicated matter, but the bottom line is that in order to save the economic system we purport to love, it’s time for a serious rethink of what’s a business expense and what’s not. (continues) We start with a short discussion of … Read More

We will get to the futures (yawn) and the Chicago Fed activity index (snore) in a moment. But first a word about climate change. No, we won’t get talking about India and China getting serious about longer-term government commitment to the idea, although the NY Times over here is solidly supportive in their reporting. (Continues) … Read More

This may be one of “them Texas tall tales” ya’ll have have heard about, but it began Saturday when I was burning the first of two pretty good-sized burn piles that have accumulated on the property.  Remember our “limbing-up” discussion? Elaine had successfully kept me away from burning until some “ground nesters” were done with this … Read More

Not a particularly in-depth report this morning, but some very interesting topics.  ‘First up is a discussion of how I made some “lunch money” on this week’s dead cat bounce in the market. Then a word or several more about Micro Homes, since my son is now actively thinking about building one. A few headlines, … Read More

Yes.  Tomorrow in Peoplenomics I will show you how I played the “dead cat bounce” in the market Thursday – which will likely continue a bit when the market opens this morning. As I told www.peoplenomics.com subscribers in our special report Thursday AM, my favored outcome would be a solid/tradable bottom for the short-term, and with … Read More

I know some of our readers have a hard time understanding why I allow (and encourage) posts from a reader (Jon) who sometimes seems like a sharp-shooter troll from the corporate-government alliance. But he does have value in that he will (occasionally) ask some hard questions deserving of thoughtful answers. Although he may not like some … Read More

I regret to advise regular www.urbansurvival.com readers that we will have to dispense with our usual charm, wit, and wisdom this morning because matters of a more pressing – long wave economic –  nature concern us today. Specifically, certain market indicators and behaviors are of such magnitude that we have to scrap the free side … Read More

There we were Wednesday.  Gloating at having unloaded out long position Tuesday afternoon (2:31 PM Eastern) when it became apparent that the country has been overwhelmed with a new kind of mental disorder. A strange dysfunction it it, too:  People using words like Buffoon-in-Chief and “impeachment” – all very strong and polarizing emotives – verging on … Read More

This morning we present some extremely specific predictions – more like tentative trading points – which should evolve over the balance of this year. No, we don’t rely on tea leaves or obscure code…just years of cumulative spreadsheets and data studies. While we don’t offer “financial advice” per se, we do offer an outline of … Read More

If I could give you all the answers, you’d be appalled, so I will just give you the barest essentials of the possible plotline of the ongoing media novel grounded in the last presidential election. Writ large today, we have the family investigator in the Seth Rich murder – he was the democrat national committee … Read More

Like all “modern” doctors, mine had been  after me for several years to get on the “statin bandwagon.”  In a medical way, he was right:  My HDL was running low 40s while my LDLs were up in the 260 area. Still, I had trepidations about it: I’d read extensively on both sides of the studies … Read More

This is one of those serious discussions where it would really help if you had read our in-depth www.peoplenomics.com report this weekend where we discuss a new kind of warfare. But, if you didn’t, there is a comment from a subscriber (here) that will hint in the proper direction.  As our subscriber wrote: “Mr. Ure … Read More

Yes it was Mother’s Day. Elaine was all set to have an “art play day” so she was looking through her art books, fine-tuning how each easel would stand, studying new acrylic paint mixing ideas…. You know, the kind of stuff Mothers Do when… (whenever that happens during the year.) My mission was to get … Read More