Seriously somber stuff to discuss on Labor Day, no doubt. But we are not as humans doing a credible job of either measuring the machines to humans ratios, nor are we tracking the machine thinking ratio to human thought ratio.  WTFU:  This is described by a single word.  Blindsided. And no, that post on FB … Read More

These two developments hardly seem like a good reason to get up at oh-dark-thirty on a semi-holiday morning, but I’ve never been a particularly smart fellow, when comes down to it… By about lunchtime, despite the electronic markets being open, in the surviving brick and mortar stock and bond joints, you should be able to … Read More

Since almost everyone has plans for the three-day weekend – which marks the nominal end of Summer in ‘Merica – I thought you’d like to see how it breaks-out using our Seven Systems of Life approach to things. As you’ll remember, these are Food, Shelter, Communications, Transportation, Energy, Finance, and Environment. This last is more … Read More

Reader Note: A reminder that we will be posting only one (all-purpose) column on Monday because of the Labor Day holiday and market’s being closed. We may do a Sunday Special if something strikes us as particularly interesting…so come by. First Whack at Jobs Every month, we go into the big Casino of finance and … Read More

Oh boy…time to call the UrbanSurvival Board of Directors into special session. If you got this far, you’re on Board so consider attendance mandatory. Elaine and I want to redo the kitchen. We have four different ways we can to this and I want to get some input on this: Option 1: We keep the … Read More

With Labor Day almost here (yeah – is it time yet?) we have to take a look at a pharmaceutical dispensing industry where everything seems to be going wrong on the employment front.  Useful to study, too because it’s the road a lot of other industries will be following and as such, is a useful … Read More

Economic Theory has it that when people have confidence, and when they have low interest rates available, they will form  family units and buy housing. So naturally when we read this morning’s housing data, that’s the kind ofs thing that rolls through the back of the mind.  What’s missing? HOME PRICE GAINS IN JUNE CONCENTRATED … Read More

Oh boy…lots of moving pieces around here, Life lately has been like falling into a blender. Moving Approaches? Panama and his wife are nearly ready to close on their new home – a very nice place in town and close to everything. That – and the arrival of cooler weather – will result in a … Read More

It was more of the same this weekend:  The major money center banks of the world and the monetary policy folks getting together at Jackson Hole Wyoming.  A fitting place where the world Hole figured prominently has to be one of the finest winks out there from Universe. That aside – and while the banks … Read More

There are always plenty of things to do when you have the ultimate bug-out retreat in the woods. Especially when the Global Banksters are gathering around the US Fed and crying poor…moving us closer to the bail-in that I described in a recent Peoplenomics report. This weekend, however, it was a time to work on … Read More

Think the odds of a flash war are low?  Think again. As one of our readers noted, former president Clinton tossed some bombs around to try and get rid of/distract from the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Will such a distraction be used this fall? Obviously we don’t know, But there are some bothersome potential conflicts out … Read More

The myth that the consumer is in any way protected by the Fooled and Drugged Administration is blowing up once again. Can’t say we’re surprised, since in the past we had helped expose how the FDA helped corporate greedsters to hoax millions out of people who depended on the extract of the autumn crocus (Colchicine) … Read More

In our Thursday morning report dealing with the Philadelphia experiment, I made a passing mention to how I scribble down notes and am perpetually reorganizing them. I didn’t mean that literally This morning I thought it would be useful to share a couple of tools that may help you get a better – – or … Read More