George Ure

April 17, 2013 —  I told you last week how retail sales figures showed how  about the only thing holding this economy above collapse has been car sales.   I’ll get out the chart in a sec. to make that point, but there are some  interesting dynamics in play now that are definitely working in Detroit’s (and  Tokyo’s and Seoul’s) favor.  But first, as always, a visit to the morning  headlines along with some coffee and mental vitamins to help jump-start our  mid-week thought processes…Oh!  Almost forgot to mention we will show how  UrbanSurvival readership Fridays may be telling us something about the trading  day to come Monday.  Fell out of some research I’m doing on my new book  (about time) that will be recommended reading before tackling use of our Nostracodeus software…   Oh…and one of our key indicators has just flipped over to “Time to be  short…”

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April 13, 2013   One of our Peoplenomics subscribers is a Gen-X’er who is  wondering what to do with his life financially – which means strategically – if  the world doesn’t collapse in a heap of broken bits around us.  I asked him to  share his situation including details about holding and such so that we could  use him as a group example.  He graciously supplied lots of details and using  these (no personally identifiable information, though) we have a fine discussion  lined up this morning.  After – that is – we roll with coffee and headlines,  plus maybe an aspirin (blood pressure not hangover) and a few vitamins and  breakfast thoughts…

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April 10, 2013 — Sometimes it can be very entertaining – not to mention  sharpening of the mind – to write a fictional account of the future since it  puts things into perspective which otherwise might be dismissed by logical  mind.  Too easy, many times, to dismiss a good – and credible – scenario simply  because the mind creates logical objections that are tantamount to saying  “They’d never do that!”  Examples may be found as near as Pearl Harbor, or at  site of the Twin Towers which, we recall, had already been hit previously in a  terrorist attempt.  But before we “Go Clancy” on you, the usual sober looking at  the morning’s news and the very much inebriated markets which were hitting the  rocket fuel to an extent that has to make North Korea envious.  But as we all  sadly reminded, space is not the final frontier yet: dirt is.

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April 6, 2013 — Unlike tomatoes, which do well in plenty of sunlight, there are some  aspects of economics that do better in the dark.  Dark in in ‘things the little  people don’t know’ because – if they did – there would be pitchforks at the  ready and villagers at the gate.  This morning, a short summary of several areas  where the whole field of economics is getting right up to the ragged edge:  Everything from the Nth customer problem to the crashing of the labor  participation rate, to a 260 gB data dump that outs the names, places, and  amounts of keep trusts (of high net worth individuals) and corporations who are  rather expert at tax dodging.  This is especially troublesome because we’re just  nine days from the ‘little people’s’ tax deadline.  So have the blood pressure  meds at the ready, and turn  up this Youtube tune to set the mood…it’s where economics is.

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April 3, 2013 — One of the greater mysteries of the “prepper” movement is “Why?”   After all, on the surface things are not terribly bad, despite my sometimes  acidic remarks about markets.  As the car and truck report showed Tuesday,  things aren’t all that bad.  Unfortunately, in many ways they are – and will  likely continue so for the foreseeable future. So this morning’s focus report  will be on developments on (and about) the Korean peninsula.  Before we get into  developments and the personal contingency planning, however, a review of other  headlines and plenty of coffee is in order.

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March 30, 2013 — Several readers have asked me for a review of  Bitcoin and any thoughts/feelings I have on them since there are already  reported to be millionaires in the making in the land of digital currency.  Can  peer-to-peer finance work out better than top-down finance?  Or is it just  another bubble?  A discussion follows an explanation of how it works and how you  can get some Bitcoins for yourself.  Before we go there, however, there are the  dreary morning headlines, not to mention trying to make money the old fashioned  way, in the meantime.

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March 27, 2013 — In last weekend’s report, we had a short course in DC system design  and we developed a number of ideas including some of the basics.  This week,  we’ll press forward in emergency power planning with a focus on the wiring and  installing solar panels part.  First, though, a cup or three of coffee and some  headlines to get us rolling.  Especially what may be turning into a war between  factions in global banking….

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March 23, 2013 — As couple of reader emails in the past few weeks have  prompted me to write a short guide on using solar (and wind) power.  But unlike  in past issues of Peoplenomics, like issue #362 (*Robust  Home Power, Aug. 10, 2008) which begins with the esoteric planning using a  ‘load sheet’ /needs analysis and then designs a house-sized solar power system,  this week’s summary is a simple cheatsheet for emergency situationa. So, that’s  our task this morning:  Build a pocket reference so the fellow who has a child  in a wheelchair will be able to cobble up a suitable solar charging option in an  emergency. Or, if you have aunt Millie on an oxygen concentrator, you can maybe  keep her huffing until the power comes back on (if it does…).  More  importantly, even if you’re not interested in having a two-page cheatsheet for  use in a disaster setting, you’ll be able to follow along as we condense  knowledge, summarizing and get it ready to laminate and put with our prepper  stash. Ah, but before we get into the prepping part, some steely-eyed review of  overnight news and our charts await.  So hoist that cup, slug that coffee, and  let’s ‘git er’ done…

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March 20, 2013 — Two important concepts to  learn from this morning’s Peoplenomics report.  First and foremost we will talk  about timing one’s exit from the bond market.  This is a short lesson in  “Getting while the getting’s good.”  A causative subset of global economic  collapse, the bond market is now fraught with risk.  In this regard, we’ll  discuss how more and more parents are finding student loan collectors hot on  their [parent] tails for cosigning on either Johnny or Suzi Sucker’s six-figure  student loan bill.  Gosh, doesn’t this sound like cheerful and uplifting  reading?  This kind of stuff that just makes you want to jump up and celebrate  the day, doesn’t it?  No?  Well, how about as a warm up, then, we go sample  global death, doom, destruction – starting with Cyprus – the latest country  falling victim to a bankster gang-bang…the gang being the EU.

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March 16, 2013 — Touchy Issue Alert.  This may seem a bit off point, as Peoplenomics is  largely about alternative living & thinking, making money or improving one’s  lifestyle, but every so often we need to consider “keeping it out of the  ditch.”   There is a growing (and blurring) line developing between being a  “prepper” and being a “domestic terrorist.”  After a little research, talking to  people, and looking up reference materials, I came to some pretty interesting  conclusions.  Before we go there, however, we’ll kick of Wednesday with a few of  the morning’s top news stories to shake the brain cells into action.  And if  they don’t, another cuppa coffee surely will…

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March 13, 2013 — Touchy Issue Alert.  This may seem a bit off point, as Peoplenomics is  largely about alternative living & thinking, making money or improving one’s  lifestyle, but every so often we need to consider “keeping it out of the  ditch.”   There is a growing (and blurring) line developing between being a  “prepper” and being a “domestic terrorist.”  After a little research, talking to  people, and looking up reference materials, I came to some pretty interesting  conclusions.  Before we go there, however, we’ll kick of Wednesday with a few of  the morning’s top news stories to shake the brain cells into action.  And if  they don’t, another cuppa coffee surely will…

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March 13, 2013 — OK – as I wrote for subscribers late last fall, when our trading model was  about to go bullish – which it hasn’t wavered from since December – if you’re  going to make intelligent decisions about whether to bail out on a house you’re  upside down in, saving both pennies in the 401-K, or even something as simple as  deciding whether to buy a car, you need to sense what is going on around you in  terms of inflation.  So this week, even though people are confused by a crappy  economy in many parts of the country, the market is soaring as if it had wings.   So what gives?  I mean surely, something is amiss….so what is it?  The answer  after a few headlines this morning…

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March 6, 2013 — When I started writing about how the global economic  crack-up would become a reality sooner than later, it was 1997 and I was  finishing an MBA late in life.  Despite reading perhaps a hundred books, all  told, on cyclical economics, past Depressions, Panics, and Crashes, it never  truly got personal until this week when a long-time friend, someone I have done  business and investing with for years, was on the verge of broke and was packing  up his home office and preparing to head out.  I promised myself that before he  left, I would put some mental focus on what he’s likely to face in  declining-lifestyle America.  Just jotting down this morning’s report – as a  checklist and toolset for him – has been one of the most bitter pieces of  writing ever.  But, before we get into that, how about we warm up a bit with  coffee and headlines?  Even bad instant will be less bitter than this morning’s  topic and we venture far beyond simple prepping…

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