George Ure

March 2, 2013 — (Ellijay, GA.) Our plans to return to Texas on Saturday blew up when a no-go  item on the checklist failed on the test flight…no pilot-side mic keying.  So,  by the time that was fixed, it was too late to depart for Texas…so two more  nights were planned waiting for some after-snow clearing due Sunday morning.   Which left plenty of time to get up in the middle of the night, watch the cars  in the parking lot get covered with snow, and think about how preppers waste  money.  Not that it’s been exactly ‘front on mind’ for me, until we got into a  discussion Friday about how planning for dogs in a prepper setting may be a huge  waste.  One thing led to another and that’s how my list got started.  Before we  dig into that, however, a few morning headlines – and our chart pack – to get us  rolling…

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February 27, 2013 — (Ellijay, GA.) A reader asked a simple question this week: If  the stock market is going to tank (which we’ll discuss, too) then how does a  person make some real money on that possibility? So this morning a discussion of  “How to be a bear…”  After, first, rambling amongst the headlines to warm up  the neurons a bit…

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February 23, 2013 — (Ellijay, GA.) Suppose for a minute that there were some kind of “other  world” out there which had inhabitants in it and that one of the jobs of these  “otherworlders” was to figure out an easy-to-use method of evaluating “good”  people and distinguishing them from “bad” people.  Could it be done?  Since I’m  sequestered (ahead of the rest of the country) writing my next book “Cradle to  Grave” Everything’s a business model” in a Georgia motel room, I’ve been working  on precisely this question.  It’s a kind of Boolean IF – THEN.  Suprisingly, the  answer turned out to be easy, but only if you have been following our “WuJo”  reports of late.  So after a a look at some headlines, some thoughts on how  “other-worlds” might judge human business models…and in turn, human progress.   Why it might even work for us inmates in life, too…

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February 20, 2013 — (Ellijay, GA.) Suppose for a minute that there were some kind of “other  world” out there which had inhabitants in it and that one of the jobs of these  “otherworlders” was to figure out an easy-to-use method of evaluating “good”  people and distinguishing them from “bad” people.  Could it be done?  Since I’m  sequestered (ahead of the rest of the country) writing my next book “Cradle to  Grave” Everything’s a business model” in a Georgia motel room, I’ve been working  on precisely this question.  It’s a kind of Boolean IF – THEN.  Surprisingly, the  answer turned out to be easy, but only if you have been following our “WuJo”  reports of late.  So after a a look at some headlines, some thoughts on how  “other-worlds” might judge human business models…and in turn, human progress.   Why it might even work for us inmates in life, too…

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February 16, 2013 — A friend of mine, Dr. Ron Klatz who heads up the American Academy of Anti-Aging  Medicine, A4M.com, recently announced plans  for something to be called Taskforce13.  The reason this is such an  important issue at present is that the global power elite are trying to figure  out what to do with emergent anti-aging technologies which indisputably work.   After being ready to railroad anti-aging, Klatz was one of the key people at the  World Economic Conference in Dubai, who successfully argued in favor or  age-extension technologies and that, at least for now, has a lot of shakers and  movers in the PTB going back to the drawing board to figure out “OK, so what DO  we do?”  The reason is clear:  The way ahead is particularly grim if you look  just at the dollars and cents, instead of focusing first on the sense of what  our real choices are.  So this week, a look at the balance scale to see what  life extension may – and may not – be able to do.  After our usual morning  headlines, first…

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February 13, 2013 — After a series of very long Peoplenomics articles, this morning we return to  our economic roots as we ponder the way ahead.  This is particularly important  because of last night’s State of the Union and some of the news items which  popped up this spring in our monitoring of predictions and forecasts.  Plus we  can eye “record highs” in the market with a bit more suspicion now that the Fed  has updated its online inflation calculator through 2013.  It ain’t pretty.  As  always, nothing like a few headlines to wake up the brain, so we’ll deal with  those straightaway…

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February 9, 2013 — Although dreaming is one of those “soft” skills few respectable  economists will admit to being curious about, their very industry depends on  correctly capturing and correctly assessing key aspects of the future in order  to make profitable investment decisions.  Isn’t “investing” simply buying  “today” what will have greater value at some time in the “future?”  So this  morning we’ll have a deep poke and prod at this soft-squishy stuff that arrives  at the moment of touch; when all potential alternatives coalesce into Now.   Since we’ve had a bunch of earthquakes in the South Pacific (more on them in a  moment) we could be meandering toward what predictive linguistics suggests could  be a Global Coastal Event in our future: this year.  But practical matters  first.  Coffee, headlines, and charts.

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February 6, 2013 — First item of business this morning is a discussion of  the 8.0 quake last night, a few notes on the possibility of a prequel to a  Global Coastal Event and then we will pick up with what we started on last  weekend, which was what?  A discussion of investment ideas for young families  and at the top of the agenda there is a discussion about how each of us is CEO  of our own business empire – MeCompany for short. Since people are very much  business models which operate like companies, we can then put some benchmarks  out in terms of measuring how we’re doing as MeCompany CEO’s.  First, as always,  the tai chi and yes, now I know why yesterday’s UrbanSurvival piece about the  (possible) global coastal event was such a downer in yesterday’s column….

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February 2, 2013 — People ask some really good questions and this morning we’ve  got a dandy email from a 28-year old Peoplenomics subscriber who wanted some  basic questions about investing answered.  But here’s an example of inflation  for you:  The answer turned into a two-part Peoplenomics report after I jotted  down the first 7-pages of notes on what a young family ought to be thinking  about when it comes to money.  THEN it occurred to me that I need to send this  to our kids, too…and then it got more detailed from there.  So this morning  we’re into the first part of a discussion for young Co-CEO’s of families, after  the tai chi of headlines and that blow-off market rally which our trading model  called right…

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January 30, 2013 — Periodically, I get hate mail…usually from non-subscribers who don’t take  the time to consider other points of view.  But when people question the  Aggregate Index and blather on about markets, it’s time for a quick refresher  course on how money degrades over time.  So this morning, we’ll look at some of  the hard realities of how markets perform when money’s bring watered-down.  As  I’ll show: 2007 was only the market top if you ‘drank the Kool-Aid’ and don’t  correct for inflation.  But that, however, leaves us with a new problem: If you  can’t trust market pricing to be good indicators (since the underlying money is  corrupted) what then becomes the investment yardstick?  First, however, a bit of  mental tai chi with overnight headlines and a strong second cup.

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January 26, 2013 — After our morning jaunt through a few headlines to  warm-up the brain cells, this morning we will do some rudimentary “future  seeing” by setting up our own system of data collection using off the shelf  tools.  Does it work for valuing companies and investment vehicles?  Well, no  reason why not.  Depending on how much time you want to invest in the project,  of course…

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January 23, 2013 — “…psst…wanna make north of 20% with low risk?”   Back to our ‘core” this morning…getting rich.  The economy – more or less –  sucks here lately.  And although there are occasional ways to make something  other than bank rates of interest, most of those come with a fair amount of  risk.  Still, there are a few ‘sneakers’ left – and IF we don’t get a global  coastal event, once Elaine and I get back from summer travels this year (with  Panama Bates taking point at Uretopia in our absence) we will likely wade into  this investment ourselves.  As usual, more on  the sport of  “making money” – a  topic that never goes out of style – after we turn over a few headlines and look  to see what’s under them.

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January 12, 2013 — Reality is funny stuff.  It’s how a person  chooses from a wide assortment of sensory inputs, to assemble a rational  framework to deal with their surroundings.  As in the case of gun (or civil)  rights, much of what is held as core belief set may, upon inspection, be found  to have its roots in parental upbringing and message frequency in media…all of  which is played as a fine harp by those expert in persuasion block principles.   So in order to construct a little different ‘reality’ this morning, I thought it  would be instructive to revisit our fictional Directorate 153 Project, which like the (allegedly fictional) Report From Iron Mountain we can use to sort out conflicting viewpoints on things like Newtown and guns  (among other points) and thus get a little closer to the heart of what’s going  on in America, and indeed the world, today.  But first – as ever – some  headlines to speedy the workings upstairs and dust off the mental cobwebs which  seem to accumulate from Friday nights…

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