Coping: Why I Hate Pro Sports

Nothing personal – and if you want to… 1.Pay huge ticket prices 2.Buy $10 hot dogs 3.Drink $10 beer 4.Underwrite a bunch of rich owners 5.Give local government another hand in your wallet 6.Put up with miserable traffic and parking 7.Suffer “Branding” disease 8.Lose personal time you could use for personal sports, exercise, or learning … Read More

Nervous Monday: Stocks Predict Future?

With the latest round of woes for presumptive presidential high-bidder Hillary Clinton, the pseudo-liberal East Coast money establishment has been in an uproar since late last week. We can see there were two drivers to this gnawing sense of fear: One was polls showing Donald Trump was back in the lead by several measures. The … Read More

Coping/TechnoPrepper’s Notebook: Solar Footlights

My big mission in Life today is to get you to spend $10 bucks at Amazon. Before you rush off thinking “Oh my God, not another highly polished and monetized website,” rest assured it’s still UrbanSurvival. But I have an interesting tale of aging, looking at data, and thinking that we’ve been doing in background … Read More

Bloody Monday? Don’t Panic

Today we will skip the more theoretical economics discussions – the commentary Wednesday on why tax cuts won’t work for Trump should be enough reading to keep you busy thinking for a while. Instead, we will look at our Trading Model’s results for the week and then see how there is a chance (though small) … Read More

Time to Panic?

No, but time to update out data which is coming tomorrow in Peoplenomics.  The market has taken out one key – first level of support – in the manic decline of today (so far). We will have a detailed look at a couple of prospective wave counts and target levels in our Peoplenomics report tomorrow. … Read More

Iran Pay-Off 84X Bigger: Impeachable?

Oh, you didn’t hear? Well that $400-million in foreign cash that the Golfer in Chief dispensed to Iran is turning into the least of our worries. So is the reported earlier this week that the real number was PURPORTED TO BE $1.7-BILLION. Because as of this morning, the real number is looking like it could … Read More

Techno-Prepper Notebook: SatWX Direct

Earlier this week I went into (excruciatingly boring) detail about how to set up a computer, ham radio receiver or transceiver (set on the widest bandwidth you can find)  and then directly capture satellite images on the lash-up. Peoplenomics readers got to peek at one of the first black and white (composite) images Wednesday.  And … Read More

Nothing New Under the Sun?

Have to admit it: Not a hell of a lot on the economic front worth getting worked up over. Sure, the Fed has the Consumer Debt report this afternoon and we will see some oil/petroleum data from the Energy Information Administration. But of the two, I’ll take the Fed data as the “most exciting” which … Read More

Coping: Prepping for a Wreck with Body Work

As you can see in the following picture, Ure’s truly has an old 2001 Dodge Ram Pick-em-up. One winter day, about 2006, or so, this big hairy limb about 5-inches in diameter decides to fall on the hood of the truck, like so…. Now I’m in no particular hurry to spiff up the old farm … Read More

Trump’s One Chance to “Thread the Needle”

Yes, there is some good news about debt.,  With the help of some input from my friend Jas Jain, we take a look at why Reaganonomics worked and why a Trump version of tax cuts could would be a disaster. Then we explore the one way Trump could “thread the needle just so…” and come … Read More

Top of the Roller Coaster?

We open this week, as expected, with the markets set to open about flat. That much was fairly predictable. What is NOT predictable is what will happen next. Well, except for the Gallup Consumer numbers this morning and the Fed-Speaks going on this week. Still, it’s all really just foreplay compared to the September 20-21 … Read More

Coping/Prepping: A Look At Direct NOAA SatWx

“Devil makes work for idle hands,” it is said. So I dutifully started to clean out the UrbanSurvival/Peoplenomics office Saturday. And by the time last night rolled around, little looked any different, but at least there was a Big Plan that was coming into view. You see, a lot of preppers have very little to … Read More

“October Surprise” Spotting, Waiting on the Vote-Jacking

It’s a fine pastime – I mean if you don’t have friends, hobbies, schedules, kids, housework, a yard, oil change, or other real chores to do – trying to figure out the “next Big Thing” that will show up in the MSM news flow. Should be something big enough to cause panic, a sucking of … Read More