You study the UrbanSurvival site, you read G.A. Stewart’s take and finally come to it: Time to “Get out of Dodge.”  Well, except for one thing: You don’t know how, exactly. Because getting out, even if you have time (when time comes, so to speak) is not likely to work unless you have laid in … Read More

Blizztime or another Snowmageddon?  Still early, but… While the Northeast is getting ready for the cold weather dump from weather system Finn, Expert: Winter Storm Finn to bring snow, freezing rain to Virginia Monday night, the outlook for East Texas has turned unseasonably cold early next week, as well. We have been adjusting our work … Read More

If there is one thing people could benefit from buying, it would be an accurate view of the Future. Why, just think of the things you could do with it! Avoid Pandemics Avoid industries headed into tough times – thus reducing personal layoff and lost-income risk. Making the most of all your investment choices including … Read More

Ad advisory (to go with the coffee).  Don’t forget the ShopTalk Sunday series of articles has its own website over at the Ultra-Make site. The Magician’s Notebook – Supply Staging for Spring – Ultra-Make -g

The next couple of weeks will likely be critical for the markets as well as the Future in general. The reasons are numerous and that’s our high level view of life on earth as we focus on the overarching issue.  Which is?  “When’s the right time to Take the Money and Run?” Which ties into … Read More

Welcome to Pop or Drop Friday.  Where the outcome will be decided by the Jobs Report and the confounding logic of modern markets. Short Term First We have to begin with this story making the rounds because it’s how the money was being placed on the Roulette Table before the open:  Trader makes massive bet … Read More

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