The early stock Futures were showing something of a bounce early today, even ahead of the release of the ADP Employment report and the Challenger Job Cut’s analysis. Could that be based the first tranche of names released in the Epstein docs case was a semi-yawner?  Well, maybe… First the Jobs Data The set-up to … Read More

Technology and sociology are the weather forecasts of our Future. To have a great Future, check the forecasts! Which is to say, if you’re planning a robust future, our chapter of Building a Person Ark today will be useful. It’s all about getting the Future right.  Do that and everything else is almost cake. Not … Read More

Stock Futures were falling in the pre-market on this first trading day of the New Year.  Why, if things keep going this-a-way, old Ure will put enough in the Lunch Money Day Trading Account (LMDTA) to buy lunches for the month.  (If I don’t pig out, but that’s a different issue.) Although the pre-holiday hype … Read More

Alliterative, ain’t it? In case you forgot, what with all the Party Juice: “Alliterative means using the same sound or sounds at the beginning of multiple words, especially consonant sounds. It can also mean having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable.” So sayeth the desktop A.I. Which actually tees up the … Read More

  ShopTalk Sunday is on Ultra-Make now… So, if you’re looking for something with the coffee this morning, head on over to https://ultra-make.com. I’m sure it’s there… By the way, each of my websites has a motto or positioning statement. Urban is “Everything’s a Business Model.” Ultra-Make.c0m’s is “Go bang something…” This being a holiday … Read More

“Yes Natasha, Fearless Leader has been struck by a flare-up of Acronym Disease!“ Except that it happens to mean something useful: Offset Moving Averages. And it goes hand-in-glove with what we were talking about earlier this week on the (free) UrbanSurvival site.  About STM (Short-term Memory) and how the differences between STM and LTM may … Read More

Not sure where to begin – since this is the last column on UrbanSurvival for this year.  Given nothing extremely out of the ordinary goes down in the next couple of days, that is. Come Sunday, our ShopTalk Sunday column will appear on one of those “side project sites” that I tinker with now and … Read More

Hype about the stock market is at an almost overwhelming level today.  Which, while appealing to those few last people to “jump in at the top” we don’t think will pay off very well. While it’s nominally true stocks are at new highs, a closer look ignores a few simple facts. First is that the old … Read More

We hold the major Purpose of Life is the successive achievement of “perfect days.”  With 2023 wrapping up, we depart from the usual economic fare to contemplate what makes for a “Perfect Day” and engage in the task of stringing a lot of them together in 2024. It hasn’t escaped our notion that as our … Read More

More evidence the Fed was right on HFL – higher for longer: “YEAR-OVER-YEAR The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 4.8% annual change in October, up from a 4% change in the previous month. The 10-City Composite showed an increase of 5.7%, up from a … Read More

I promise, tomorrow’s Peoplenomics report will be much more positive. Because it deals with the task, we all face, of getting out of bed in the morning, trying to game out how to “Live a Perfect Day.” We hope your Christmas was close to being one of those. We worked in the yard a bit … Read More

People can almost feel it.  Big changes seem to be coming.  There’s a feeling, or vibe to it. Some random notes today on the nature of things and how – at some level – it all makes sense. But doesn’t. The Christmas Leak Tale Forget Shakespeare’s “There is a tide in the affairs of men…”  … Read More

Although Elaine and I didn’t get each other anything for Christmas, save a set of (on sale) $7-buck stainless putty knives for sheetrock, project and artwork, it did leave something of a “hole in the soul” which was rectified this week assembling a new work surface. There’s just something about assembly that strikes the same chord … Read More