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Peoplenomics goes back a long way. So, when new subscribers want to know “What do I get for $40 bucks?” I honestly don’t know what to tell them except “Lots.”

Which is how much? This page should give you some ideas.  Early reports tended toward small ( a few pages) however in recent years, long form (nearly) academic-level research papers and the ChartPack series (*which now runs 10-50 pages) is just a whole lot more useful animal.

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May 26, 2026: Your “News World” Is About to Change & Melt-Up Risk Rising?

May 23, 2026: Blink, Coherence, Charts

May 20, 2026: Inside Amplified Life: Where Did Telepathy Go?

May 16, 2026: Double-Vision Markets, Slider-Puzzle Weekend

May 13, 2026: Contact Grammar In the Waiting Line

May 9, 2026: Vance Freaks: The Rise of Sovereign AI

May 6, 2026:  First Dibsies – The Trillion Dollar Hole in AI.

May 2, 2026:  Markets Running on “Made-Up Money”?

April 29, 2026: Post-Crypto: The Rise of Work-Based Money

April 25, 2026: Super Edition: Electroculture, Heavy-Math, and ChartPack

April 22, 2026: TACO Tuesday & The Longevity Circuit

April 18, 2026: Icarus Markets? All Greeks to Me

April 15, 2026: Two at its Top? And Nailing the Ontology

April 11, 2026: Widows and Orphans Advice in the ChartPack

April 8, 2026:  No War – But No Peace: It’s Sunset on the Titanic – Iceberg Spotting

April 4, 2026: What Follows Spring Break?

April 1, 2026: Jobs Data, Depression Prospects for China, Rally Continues

March 28, 2025: End-Point Dependencies Loom

March 25, 2026: Track O: A New Reality Model – A Five Track Bioelectric Field

March 21, 2026: The Coward Before Monday

March 18, 2026: The Hidden Clocks that Vex Investors, Nonlinear Modeling

March 14,, 2026: Monday: Seat Backs, Tray Tables, and OTPs

March 11, 2026: CPI, Markets Sniffing the 200 DMA, and New Model of Memory

March 7, 2026: A Personal Navigation Check

March 4, 2026: ADP #s, Two Patent Tuesday, Food Focus Forming, Markets Learning Gravity

February 29, 2026: Welcome to the “Warm-up War” – Iran

February 25, 2026: Unlocking Secrets of Predictive Accuracy with Exponential Futures

Febcruary 21, 2026: The Great Technique Race Continues.

February 18, 2026: Can Education Save the World?

Februarsy 14: 2026: Long-Term Grim, But a Possible Rally Week Ahead

February 11, 2026: Beyond the Kidnapping Replay – Jobs and Inflation Inbound

February 7, 2026: Frank’s Weekend: The Public Cost of Private Sports.

February 4, 2026: Open in Case of (Iran) War

January 30, 2026: A Simple Weekend Tasking.

January 28, 2026: The Flash Drive at Alexandria

January 24, 2026: A Profound Prepping Question

January 21, 2026: You Don’t Crash from a Top – Front Line in the AI War

January 17th, 2026: Holiday, Housing, and GDP Week

January 14, 2026: Civil War Lite in “Grand Fenwick”

January 10, 2026: Minnesota Showtime & CWL.

January 7, 2026: The Digital Anasazi

January 3, 2026: The Guns of January

December 31, 2025: Opening the Books on 2026

December 27, 2025: Which Person to be Next Year?

December 24, 2025: Peoplenomics – Shareholder Report

December 20, 2025: A (Rare) Additional Pre-Christmas Sunday Outlook Note

Deember 20, 2025: Dilly of a Christmas Week

December 17, 2025: A Systematic Approach to 2026

December 13, 2025: The Jumbo Jitters We began to mention the possibility of a “Slaughter of the Elves II” back in early October.

December 10, 2025:  Winning Slowly in 2026 Getting rich fast?  No one we know.

December 6, 2025:  Skeptics of Change Guilty as charged! I tend to overthink things especially when new technology is involved.

December 3, 2025: The Unspoken Prepping Problem in Plain Sight Our recent two-part series has uncovered one of the biggest prepping problems in the world

November 29, 2025: Showdown Week Ahead ChartPack today offers the concept of “trendencies.”

November 26, 2025: The Northern Impact Report Ah, Earth being smacked by an asteroid – why it’s perfect dinner table fare for tomorrow

November 22, 2025  Conditioned Response Investing Pavlov and markets both ring bells.  Plus, the Many Times interpretation of quantum mechanics.

November 19, 2025:A Historical Convergence?  First of several reports on potential comet and asteropid impacts  

November 15, 2025:  The Aliens are Speaking Some cross-species dialog to begin the weekend. Be a good “carbon” while we chat-up the “silicons.”

November 12, 2025: Federal Paid Vacations End As taxpayers, we’re not very pleased that returning Federal workers will get all their lost pay from the shutdown, soon

November 8, 2025: Year-End Slide Please, tell me from the headline you can figure out what this morning’s column is about?

November 5, 2025: Finding the “Third Intelligence” Most people are still arguing whether AI is a threat or a tool. They’re already behind.

\November 1, 2025:Manufactured “Normal” Joke around the newsroom used to be? “Series will always go 7-game – too much ad revenue for any other outcome…”

October 29, 2025: Using AI to Cut Modeling Code No, not the spandex and eye makeup kind of modeling – the <?php kind, silly…

October 26, 2025:  How AI Replaces the Web There’s a “Post Web Order” coming into view.  

October 22, 2925:  Splinternet: What “Broken Web” Got Wrong Every civilization eventually forgets what made it strong.

October 18, 2025:  ANLOMA Unveiled Short for Adaptive Non-Linear Order-Metric Algorithm.

October 15, 2025: Coding a MoneyMachine (I) Focus on the Important and today it’s learning to write a personal app. 

October 11, 2025: If Humans Were Rational Not a pretty Friday on Wall Street — and not much prettier in the headlines.

October 8, 2025:  Slaughter of the Elves, II We return to the scene of the Fed’s last spectacular error in 2018.

October 3, 2025:  To the Moon (or Weimar)? The market’s gone full carnival again — screens glowing, traders chanting “To the Moon!”

October 1, 2025:  Cortical Delusions — History has a habit of rhyming—sometimes in whispers, sometimes with a bullhorn.

September 27, 2025: A “Wow Week”?? Keep your head down this coming week.

September 24, 2025:  Near Brush with Crash? Two tracks this morning: The Secret Service telecom bust in NYC and the possibility of a sleight of hand with a Crypto-based Dollar reset.

September 20, 2025:  Already Higher than 1929 In the ChartPack today some very bad news for Bulls. 

September 17, 2025:  Book; Mind Amplifiers On Human Use of Cognitive Prosthetics.

September 14, 2025:  Cycles Say Crash, Markets Say Boom — Who Wins?

September 13, 2025: Portrait of a Stock Bubble Few economic reports really scare the hell out of us.

September 10, 2025:  The Memory Machines Today Peoplenomics digs into “The Memory Machine “with a fresh chapter from my coming book on Mind Amplifiers.

September 6, 2025: Fed’s Biggest-Ever Mistake? Bad enough America was sold-out by the rich when Job-Jacking took hold and industry moved to least-cost labor centers. 

September 3, 2025: Contagious Intelligence Wherein we propose that Psychology and Medicine have missed something huge.

August 30, 2025: Slow-Over II – Kapok No rest for the Worked on a holiday weekend.

August 27, 2025:  Co-Dreaming & Co-Dying, as the Markets Piddle Is Death an individual thing?

August 23, 2025:  Surfers and Spy Planes If cycle-seeking numerical decompositions sounds arcane, you will love the practical.

August 20, 2025: Two Worthy Papers: Heavy math and a new domain of human thought.

August 16, 2025: No Discernable Breakthrough Dancing along trend tops in markets.

August 13, 2025: The Invention of Food Reactors A marvelous tale of invention today as we unveil my Food Reactors.

August 9, 2025: Inflation’s Moving – Or, Is It? A tip from my consigliere has us asking hard questions about inflation, again.

August 6, 2025: MPPT Economics: A Better Fed Policy Model? Peoplenomics does a deep dive into a radically simple question:

August 2, 2025:  The Time Manager’s Intel Paradox Sucker for Drucker, Believer in Blanchard? Markets conspire to take us back to the frontiers of time management.

July 30, 2025:  S.C.R.E.W.I. Theory in Economics Our “useful part” involves linkage between moving averages and the use of stops in trading.

July 26, 2025:  The Dust Bunnies of August You remember those old-school math problems?

July 23, 2025: The Day the Veil Thinned Three Papers You Won’t Forget

July 19, 2025: Fall Prepping Plans – where an inbound non solar orbiting comet has the potential to serve panic.

July 16, 2025:  Here Come Science Based Religions… I warned you – when it gets hot, that’s my prime writing time.

July 12, 2025:  End of World or End of MAGA? As you may have guessed (being upright and fogging mirrors) we have two stories on the hot board this morning.

July 9, 2025: City-States in the Cross-Hairs Last week we gave Peoplenomics readers a first look at our book Downsizing.  Today, a follow-up chapter

July 5, 2025: Holidazed With the Downsizing book done this week (download it as a .PDF here), we’re thinking it’s time for serious snoozing

July 2, 2025:  Zipper-Gripper Market and Book Release “A zipper-gripper? Really?”

June 28, 2025: Overstated Markets Where we explain what a porn star technique has to do with the market and how holidays matter. :

June 25, 2025: Calculus Class Only this is a “calculus of near future.” 

June 21, 2025:  Pins, Needles, Nukes The world is holding its breath this weekend as events in Iran could take a turn either way.

June 18, 2025:  War – With Inflation to Follow A slider of economic data to begin, update on the wars, but then into Inflation to Come.

June 14, 2025:  Cadence of War (and a book) Two topics for the weekend: As we prepped for in detail in our last report, Israel attacked Iran later week.

June 11, 2025 Seatbelt Saturday? An ounce of Prevention column today ahead of the weekend.

June 7, 2025: Crime Marches On No, Peoplenomics is not going yellow journo on you. 

June 4, 2025:Gambling: Electrons of Calories? Brace for 2026: a world where money’s just paper, and survival hinges on food, water, and grit.

May 31, 2025:Stars to Steer By Usually, when markets get into a fugue they really pop once the logjam breaks.

May 28, 2025:  Second-Half Risk Assessment There is nothing like seeing home insurance premiums go up 30 percent while coverage’s are cut, to get us thinking about the whole “risk industry.”

May 24, 2025: On War and “Remote Knowing” Nothing like woo-woo research to sharpen the mind on a long holiday weekend.

May 21, 2025 America’s Lost the “Recreation Race” If we want something to “Memorialize” this coming weekend, buddy do we have the shiznit for ya’ll

May 17, 2025: How “Solid” is Future? This is where we look ahead and size up what we can about next week.

May 14, 2025:  Threading the Needle World has to run a “gauntlet” between now and 2050 as we explained last week.

May 10, 2025:Super-Special Edition: The “Pre-War Version of our Prepper Guide” You may not have time for 50+ pages of last-minute checklist and thinking notes..

May 7, 2025: “The Gauntlet” We are hoping for an “Eartbloom” before 2050 but there’s one hell of a gauntlet to run first

May 3, 2025:  The “Protractor Problem” Where we look at the angle of the dangle (or the rate of rise) in ridiculous rallies toward predictable conclusions.

April 30, 2025: Earthbloom 101 The odds of humanity reaching 2050 are about half the odds that we will blow-up the planet first.

April 27, 2025:  Next Week’s Showdown(s) Everything from Employment to Housing to Wars.

April 23, 2025:The Footsteps of 1929 If you listen closely, you may be able to hear them.

April 19, 20215:Easter Woo In addition to the usual news analysis and cynical eyes on the markets, we venture off into woo-woo land today.

April 16, 2025: ToT: Thinking on Thinking In recent weeks, a couple of people have asked “How do you think like you do?”

April 12, 2025:  Where To Hide? With “Spring sprung” we have our weather eye to the coming year, or three.

April 9, 2025: Trust the Future, do You? Seriously, we don’t.  No more than we trust edicts and pronouncements

April 5, 2025: 20 Men from Disaster It would be audacious – but is there some player who would “kick America when she’s down?”

April 2, 2025: Extensible Explorations Extensible Explorations: AI, Energy, and the New Domain Frontier.

March 29, 2025: Tariff Burn vs. Rug Burn? We don’t like to bring up the past, but are we the only ones to remember G7, 2019? 

March 26: 2025: Concept-Bridging Medicine Our first major use of A.I. as a “brain amplifier” is to construct a “Medical Paradigm Concept-Bridge.”

March 22, 2025: Ouija Board Economics The frantic first couple of months of Trump has left a lot of people wondering what the Future holds.

March 19, 2025:The Secret Life – of Death Sure it’s Fed Day, but isn’t the history and origins of Death also kind of, oh, pertinent to all of us?
March 15, 2025: Bracing for Next Week? Options, war talks, FOMC rate signals?

March 12, 2025: Two Grim Perspectives If the coming War with China and locked in to Target Zone life isn’t enough, how about a Second Depression, then?

March 8, 2025: Still Time to Rally? Woo-Time Notes With Ukraine talks next week, the odds of a short but powerful bounce to recent market declines looms

March 5, 2025:The Two-Week Bull and a Downsizing Chapter Although sometimes labeled a “perma-bear” there are times when  we actually do like the long side of things.

March 1, 2025: Understanding the “Developer’s Mind” Two parts to it: The rolling news part and the ChartPack part as the markets hedge.

February 26, 2025 Europe’s Last Stand OK, so Europe struggles to put its “big boy pants’ on while the Deep State goes to war on Musk

February 22, 2025: Peroxide Week Ahead When “reality bites” you’ll want to have the peroxide handy.

February 18, 2025:  Vignettes at 76 — Paradoxically, we can learn about “what’s ahead” by looking over our shoulders

February 15, 2025: The Rhymes of Boss Trump Birthing of Network Radio in the 1920s with a modern rhyme with Social Media is one thinking point today

February 12, 2025:40 More Years from AI? Can we now model our life’s future with AI?

February 8, 2025: Game Over Has the Market called SB59’s outcome with the weak close Friday?

February 5, 2025: Downsizing Chapter Our 20+ years of downsizing is certainly making sense as the world changes.

February 1, 2025:Tariff Weekend? We will know (for sure) tomorrow. Market is nervous, though.

January 29,2025: Calling Out Microsoft This is what happens when you run afoul lessons in my recent book “The 100-Year Toaster.

January 25, 2025: Bad Accounting Ah, the headlines – sounds like government waste.

January 22, 2025: Ebbinghaus-Ure Explained Can we learn something about markets from noticing how people “forget” things?

January 18, 2025: California’s Complexity Crisis Or, how an obscure paper on complexity in computer programming and committee generation showed us what to expect in post-fire California.

January 15, 2025: Better Personal Research In our Focus today, a discussion of how to improve personal decision-support

January 11, 2025:  The Future was seen: Collected notes on fires and remote viewing success.

January 8, 2025: Fed Policy Compression: A series of ugly problems seen ahead in 2025.

January 4, 2025 Hidden In Plain Sight We could title this morning’s remarks something generic.

January 1, 2025: 2025’s Action Plan This being a holiday, we will be focused mainly on the ChartPack, But we do have some goggies…

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December 28, 2024  The Long Wave Look Ahead The long – and larger – cycles in economics is our focus today. :

December 25, 2024: Earthbound Marvels Merry Christmas and happy Chanukah!

December 21, 2024: A Website Under the Tree… George announces plans to “play Santa” for one lucky subscriber this coming week.

December 18, 2024: Prospects for a Digital GlobalRev Want to build a counter to the Weapons of Mass Deception?

December 14, 2024:  Problematic Waveforms– Eyes on the ChartPack today as we ponder the present “UAP mania” and the AI mania in financial markets.

December 11, 2014:Woo and the Land Grab Woo-woo in the weather and the energy impact of the near-east mess highlight today’s perspective

December 7, 2024: An Odd Bit of Research A new paradigm for aging brain research is discussed this morning.

December 4, 2024:  ’25 Preview: Markets, Data and Fuse Events

November 30, 2024: Danger for the Elves A stock market event we referred to as the “slaughter of the elves” took place a few years back.

November 27, 2024 Downsizing Book Begins, Black Friday Paranoia Root Canal Tuesday leads to Coast-to-Coast Wednesday which then segues into Turkey Thursday around here.

November 23, 2024: GDP Suddenly Matters Next Week Sure, turkey is due, but there’s a GDP report next week which could break the Big Bubble.

November 20, 2024: Investing in the Afterlife Maybe threats of global nuclear war and a severe toothache got me pondering the topic.

November 16, 2024: Stocks, Seers, and Cycles Bumpy road is likely coming between now and Christmas.

November 13, 2024: Drone Tourism? Want to do a lot for “climate”?

November 9, 2024: Election, Rally, and Now? Despite some very positive developments politically, we still have 72-days to Inauguration.

November 6, 2024: Now What? We’re glad we got out and voted Tuesday.

November 2, 2024: Pencil Work Don’t look now, but the comparison with 1929 is back.

October 30, 2024: Life, Extended? Big doings today with the final couple of chapters on of our Longevity playbook plus the new ADP jobs report just out

October 26, 2024:  Slow-Rolling War Don’t look now, but a dangerous story of “tits and tats” seems to be opening.

October 23, 2024:Bubble Per Capita Calculations Two worthy topics on tape today (besides the weekend war outlook).

October 19, 2024: Waitstate Weekend We have a list of “life-changing, but for now still pending” events that make us a bit cranky this weekend.

October 16, 2024:  2025: A Change in Prepping Beans, bullets, and a big water source are fading.

October 12, 2024: Dangerous Mindsets The Partisan News problem is growing.

October 9, 2924: Flip Side of Hurricanes-  A focus on weather warfare to kick off mid week

October 5, 2024: A recent Peoplenomics report may have sounded a bit harsh on FEMA. But NC events are making it clear: We weren’t tough enough.

October 2, 2024:  Sex and Other Minefields We arrive at Chapter 12 of our book on anti-aging techniques just in time for War.

September 28, 2024: America’s Riskiest Time Ever? We’ve been reporting on Peoplenomics for more than a quarter century now and never before have so many factors been in the “this close” column.

September 25, 2024: Next Level Prepping (1) No one seems to have noticed, except maybe us: FEMA has about totally botched its “civil defense” mission.

September 21, 2024: A Record High – Or Was It? Headlines galore about “stock market records” this week

September 18, 2024: Fed Ahead & Ancient Nutrition Three biggies on the docket today:

September 14, 2024: The Short-term Future Matters Now  Monster Week could be coming up starting Tuesday.

September 11, 2024: Avoiding the “Gotchas” (Home Safety) Our book on anti-aging best practices is nine chapters deep with today’s report

September 9, 2024: Next Week to Turn? Crappy week for markets – if you were foolish enough to be long (Bullish) stocks after Labor Day.

September 4, 2024: Bleeding Markets and Personal Health I can’t think of two more important topics this month. 

August 31, 2024: EGGS and Time More musings into the Princeton EGGs

August 28, 2024:The Anti-Aging Convergence Are anti-aging effects additive and cumulative?

August 24, 2024: Post-Labor Day Concerns We begin today decoding Jerome Powell’s remarks Friday.

August 21: (Antiaging book Ch 5/6) Feeding Your Work Habit Might come as a shock what goes on in my office before you read a morning report. 

August 17, 2024: Honing Trading Skills While Driving Since we can’t talk on cell phones and text, surely there must be something we can do that’s useful. 

August 14, 2025: (very long report) Morning Stacks and Light Bathing OK, how much money is an extra day, week, month, or year worth?

August 10, 2024;  Movement in Models It’s almost like a derivative function.

August 7, 2024: An After-Panic Book Here we are, a few thousand point lower, and what’s George got to show for it?  A new book?

August 3, 2024:  Widows, Orphans, and Computers A funny thing happened this week as we busted through one of our long-expected trend channels. 

July 31, 2024: Carry Trade Dynamics, Farm School (2) Japan’s Central Bank has decided to raise rates – which is almost certain to press on U.S. markets.

July 27, 2024:  Market to Call Election? When Donald Trump ran for president the first time, he was touted as a billionaire and the label may have helped.

July 24, 2024:  Predictive Entrainment Who’d have thought? A new approach to predict market outlooks is arising.

July 20, 2024: Charts Scream Trouble! OK – a few internet issues. But the big problem to consider this weekend is a major market break.

July 17, 2024:  The Future in Plain Sight Between multiple forward-looking predictions, we now have (we think) enough data about the future to make some educated guesses.

July 13, 2024: The “Top Spotting” Game Until the bad news about this fall begins to dawn on the (stupid) public, this market might move higher still. 

July 10, 2024: A New Book Preview and Vote My latest book, published for Kindle and titled “The 100-Year Toaster” argues the world doesn’t have a population crisis.  We have a quality crisis.

July 6, 2024: Hurricane Preps My, oh my. We’re in the new forecast for the middle of hurricane Beryl set to drench Texas Monday. 

July 3, 2024:Jobs, Fireworks, and Prepping Today with start off with the ADP numbers – which may presage the Friday official jobs data.

June 29, 2024: The Future that’s Coming for Us But we  may have another week or two before the wheels come off.

June 26, 2024: War of the Wonder Weapons? We open our thinking toolkit – which includes the hypothetical Directorate 153 – today as we wonder what’s been going on at Area 51.

June 22, 2024: A Final Stochastic There was little surprise in the Friday Housing report hitting record highs.

June 19, 20124:  Another Last Chapter – It will be a couple of weeks before “The 100-Year Toaster” shows up on Amazon.

June 15, 2024:  Wait State Workplans Let’s begin at the beginning: “A wait state is a delay experienced by a computer processor when accessing external memory or another device that is slow to respond,”

June 12, 2024: CPI, Fed, Anti-Aging Yes, the money angles are important but Anti-Aging: a Shotgun Approach  is equally important. 

June 8, 2024: Concretizing the Future A short lesson today on how the future news events do move in tandem with the future.  

June 5, 2024:  3 Ways to Live, 5 Ways to Die My, ain’t this an odd topic for a (nominally) financial (and other interests) website? 

June 1, 2024:  Screaming Rally or Collapse? Just when the Bears were lining up for a “Big One…”

May 29, 2024: The Unprepared States of America Just as I was writing this morning’s column on Tuesday, a wild storm line went through and we haven’t see power since.

May 25, 2024: Holiday Bumps One of the hardest decisions a small trader can make is whether to hold a position on a Holiday weekend.

May 22, 2024:Minimalism and Downscaling 25-years ago we coined the term “UrbanSurvival” on the leading edge of what became the prepping movement.  

May 18, 2024:ChartPack: Month-End Crapshoot Markets don’t get into a “teaching position” like this very often.

May 15,, 2024:Are Dreams an AfterLife Preview? Yeah – strange topic, but having written a book on vivid dream work and Packing to Die, the suitcase between your ears”  it’s more a logical follow-on.

May 11, 2034:  Reader Discretion Advised There are some things we don’t like to talk about on the “open web.”

May 6, 2024: The “Get Home” Plan. Nuclear war was – for a couple of decades – back in the “unthinkable pile.

May 4, 2024: Pre-Apocalypse Countdown It’s axiomatic that the “markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”

May 1, 2024: Hedging Future Tech Shock While our predicted Wave 3 down seems to continue organizing, we will address the elephant in the room for young people.

April 27, 2024: Bracing for Fed Week The odds of the Fed actually changing rates next week are low

April 24, 2024:The Old Man’s Pain Book Something more useful than market charts and insights today,

April 20, 2024: Blended Reality We have word today that the present  general human model of death and the Afterlife may be seriously antiquated.

April 17,2024:Pathways to New Future What humans have been doing so far has not worked out especially well. 7

April 13, 2024: Charts In Your Head There is an interesting story to being able to “see the numbers in your head.”  

April 10, 2024: Woo-Woo and Win Streaks Ever wonder why miracles and woo-woo don’t happen more often?

April 6,, 2024:  Hysterical Times Cheat Sheet It’s nothing new – an update on our long-standing “Threat Board.”

April 3, 2024: TSP: Task-Switching Perspectives In an earlier Peoplenomics report (December, 27,2023) we went into some depth on a concept called QFPD: “Quest for Perfect Days

March 30, 2024: Just When You Thought It was strange enough?

March 27, 2024: Stats & Consequences “Time to play the exciting world-wide financial game sensation!”  

March 23, 2024: Weekend Shorting Notes First question is: Is it brave or crazy?

March 20, 2024: Would You Invest in America? It may seem an odd question, at least in some sense: Since we are all “investors” every time we pay taxes.

March 16,, 2024:  Are We “Done”? Quite the issue in today’s ChartPack.

March 13, 2024: Personal Deficiency Remediation Process This is where we figure out what being a neat homemaker has in common with being a successful investor.

March 9, 2024: When Money Stops Working There we go, again, thinking the unthinkable, 

March 6, 2024:Living on $10,000 a Year – Now A final book chapter, Fed testimony, fresh job numbers, and crypto crazies means a biggish report today.

March 2, 2024:From Crisis, Another Book? A reader poll on whether a new book (serialized first on Peoplenomics before general release) is of any interest.  (Reader poll links included.)

February 28, 2024: The Changing Style of War Wherein we describe a movement of warfare toward “Tainter Point Wars.”

February 24, 2024: Focus on The Ides and Oddballs As we wrap up February next week, The Ides of March loom large.

February 21, 2024:31 Habits of Miserable People Most folks become like the people with hang out with.

February 17, 2024: “Fat Lady” in the Charts No, the “Fat Lady” hasn’t started signing, yet.

February 14, 2024: Retail, Bounce and a Book Chapter… Plus 18 charts and the new Retail Sales figures that just dropped.

February 10, 2024:  Markets are Set for as KC Win Sure everyone has heard about the Super Bowl Indicator.

February 7, 2024: Planning for the “Nextdemic” The problem with Covid is that no one has been held accountable.

February 3, 2024: We Told You This Would Happen The Future is getting more predictable by the day it seems. 

January 31, 2024:A Course in “Nexting” You see, Life is kinda like that point in checkers where you can move anywhere, but so can your opponent.

January 27, 2024: Hints in a Nowcast We make more money being short the market. But in the short term some NY Fed data out Friday bears a closer look.

January 24, 2024:  Money Going Somewhere With Bitcoin scrapping at the $40,000 level, we ponder where all the made-up Covid money will eventually take root. Plus a book chapter…

January 20, 2024: Double Top Monday? Yes the market roared higher but our charts tell a different tale. 

January 17, 2024: Retail and More Busy but cold as we roll into the ChartPack this morning. Book Chapter: Landing Your Ark (1).

January 13, 2024: Storm Cowards With all the Global Warming shills missing, we ponder another angle to cold weather: Trading risks for the small investor.  

January 10, 2024: Seeking Ararat II You study the UrbanSurvival site, you read G.A. Stewart’s take and finally come to it: Time to “Get out of Dodge.”

January 6, 2024: Decisive Market Window The next couple of weeks will likely be critical for the markets as well as the Future in general.

January 3, 2024:Tides to Float Your Ark (5) Technology and sociology are the weather forecasts of our Future.

December 30, 2023:  OSMA Momma “Yes Natasha, Fearless Leader has been struck by a flare-up of Acronym Disease!”  (Offset moving averages)

December 27, 2023 QFPD: “Quest for Perfect Days” We hold the major Purpose of Life is the successive achievement of “perfect days.”

December 23, 2023: Holiday Senior Tips Of course, with this being a holiday weekend, we will still have our ChartPack.

December 20, 2023:The Ark of Alexandria – In our new book, The Personal Ark (4), we tackle what kind of personal data resources you may need if (or when) we experience GHD (grid, hard down).

December 16, 2023: A ’24 Overview Where we size up how the year has been and look ahead to next year’s challenges.

December 13, 2023: “Opportunity Eyes” (Personal Ark book, Part 3) “Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say why not.” Famous quote from the late Robert F. Kennedy. Very much on point as we answer the question “What is a rational person to do for a survival strategy in a world gone mad?

December 9, 2023: Boundary Threshholding Today we consider investment lessons from the field of software design.

December 6, 2023: Personal Arks (2) We explore the money-making problem as a first step towards building a lifestyle-based personal survival property.

December 2, 2023:Plotting the Economy’s New Future With markets at new (nominal) highs this weekend, a look to see where the runaway train is headed seems to make sense.

November 29, 2023: Personal Arks (1) Getting hard to “run away to the frontier” to craft a new kind of life these days.

November 25, 2023: Fateball and the dma-x Today we venture into the Twilight Zone between woo-woo and financial analytics.

November 22, 2023: Personal Landing Zones Feeling up for a book chapter-length discussion of Personal Landing Zones?

November 18, 2023: Turkey Day Briefer State of America is the annual topic around here when the turkey comes out.

November 15, 2023: Personal Financial Train wreck, Anyone? Or, how to turn a 40% gain into a 10% gain by modifying a successful trading approach.

November 11, 2023: Eye on Two Turkeys One, of course, will be the bird destined for the table in a week and a half.

November 8, 2023: What Has Happened to Prepping? The times they are a-changing, and us with them.

November 4, 2023: Jacking Up Markets, DNA Regression Shocking rise of markets this week that almost has the odor of manipulation.

November 1, 2023: Inefficient Machines Hot jobs numbers have just dropped before we get into that.

October 28, 2023: Grim, Grimmer, Grimmest We did mention “OEB” means October Ends Badly”?

October 25, 2023: Thinking Skills of a Pari-mutuel Investor What you learn at the track may be more valuable than  classes in Business School.

October 21, 2023: Risks of Monday No, we did not take a short position ahead of expected weakness Monday.

October 18, 2023: Past  Life Regression Firsthand On break in another lifetime today.

October 14, 2023: A Typical WW3 Weekend We have it all lined up and served piping hot today.

October 11, 2023: Feel’s Like a Depression, Eh? A reader brought the question to us…

October 7, 2023:A “Double Ten” Short? A national holiday Monday was part of the reason we entered a short position ahead of the weekend.

October 4, 2023: Bounces and Dependencies We continue to evolve a “soft  science” of waveform similarities.

September 30, 2023: Gambler’s Market Our September only gains closed the month +9.8 percent.

September 27, 2923: Line, Bounce, Crash Our outlooks provide for a drop of more than 1,000 Dow points before month-end.

September 23, 2023: “Fool’s Errand” Calling market tops is dicey at best. But, we have been calling the July 31st top as “it” for over a month now.

September 20, 2023: Last-Minute Prepping Weren’t we offering this same kind of advice back in the fall of 2008?  (long report on WW3)

September 16, 2023: Bottom to Fall Out? We are entering a critical 10-day window now.

September 13, 2023: Does China Go for It? Forgive our focus on odds of war this month over Taiwan. But…

September 9, 2023:  Inflected Future Football weather is our opening topic today because it’s a mood indicator.

September 6, 2023: Range and Remediate Today we explore how basic human exploration drives modern behaviors.

September 2, 2023: Weekend War Expansions But which one? The ones overseas or the one on American soil? 

August 30, 2023: The “Pomodoro Gardener” Our focus piece today is the “action plan” which became necessary when we looked at the most valuable thing to own in the future.

August 26, 2023:  Caution in the Charts Why did I sit out going short this weekend?

August 23, 2023:  Asset Classes for the Future Today, we consider that as investors, we can pretty much own anything.

August 19, 2023:  Cycle Math for Times Ahead We will spend a few minutes on the :”Cycletron” spreadsheet after the ChartPack today.

August 16, 2023: DEWs and Don’ts We don’t know where the idea of directed energy weapons being used on American targets came from, but it does make for a curious line of inquiry.

August 12, 2013:  A Long Wave “Cycletron” (1) We needed a tool for test-fitting cycle lengths from the American Revolutionary War period.

August 9, 2023: Markets and Grieving While we await data, some reflection on where the notion of “five steps to a market move” may be rooted. (With Biorhythms and trading discussion)
August 5, 2023: Roughing Out Collapse The market decline this week may have marked the end of Wave II.

August 2, 2023: Spamming the Afterlife “You can’t take it with you” is a common saying as old age and Death approach late in Life.  But, economics argues that might not the case.

July 29, 2023:  Charts, Projections, Woo-Woo — Not as profound as Carl Jung’s Dreams, Memories, Reflections.

July 26, 2023: Reinventing Our Workstations The nature of work is changing. 

July 22, 2023: A.I. Forecasts the Fed While we are focused on Top Calling this week.

July 19, 2023: Merit-Based Lifespans You know the Fooled and Doped Administration has halted public sales of NMN – a life extending supplement, right?

July 15, 2023  The Anti-Aging Elixir (1) Investors – deep down – know one of the fundamental rules of money is “Must be present to Win.”

July 12,, 2023: Does CPI or War Matter Most? Pick your poison today!

July 8, 2023: Warring on Weight, Warming Hype, War If – or likely when – wider war shows up…

July 5, 2023: China to Replay U.S. 1929 Role? While not offering advice, I did mention to subscribers I’d gone short last Friday.

July 1, 2023:  Reasonable Court in Unreasonable World Some major SupCo decisions this week and we find them most agreeable.

June 28, 2023: Seven Paradoxes of Technology We’re focused today on the subtle – but world-wrecking differences – between Numerical Accounting and what we’d label Natural Accounting.

June 24, 2023: Charts Whisper a Grim Future IF (and is still iffy) the top of Wave 2 is in…

June 21, 2023:  Avoiding a “Solar Fleece” A number of readers have asked me how to judge an investment in solar power.

June 17, 2023: Biden’s (Internet) Hostage Crisis? Digital preparedness has been one focus on the UrbanSurvival.com site this week.

June 14, 2023:  Cause Economics Two remarkable events are tabled this morning. Our BrainAmp spreadsheet projected Wave 2 Fibonacci high was hit at Tuesday’s close (within a point).

June 10,2023: Oversold Bull– Park the Bull Market Talk.

June 7, 2023: Should “Prepping” Become “War Planning?” We were writing about Prepping almost from the beginnings of the Internet. Now, things have changed.

June 3, 2023:  Media Lies About the Job Numbers Yeah – we need to piss test Wall Street.

May 31, 2023: Time to Spinoff the West?

May 27, 2023: Enjoy It While You Can A blow-off high at the market close Friday could face disappointment this coming week.

May 24, 20923: The “Solution to Social Media” Graceful engineering ideas time – something to FWD to Elon Musk.

May 20, 2023: How High? How Long? Markets this week closed above a critical “trading box” so it means its time to start penciling out more inflection points ahead.

May 17, 2023: A Senior View of Diets Mediterranean? Keto? Paleo?  Bewildering choices, We have a few ideas.

May 13, 2023:The “Sell in May” Part Our main focus today is on the balance of this month and into next from an economics and charts perspective.

May 10, 2023: On Farming of Humans It all begins with rent.

May 6, 20923: Info Propagation Speeds Which we hinted at in the UrbanSurvival. column Friday.

May 3, 2023: Long Wave Research Notes This week, our research focuses on calendars behind human cycle recognition.

April 29, 2023: “Rotational History” of the World A “mini focus” in our ChartPack considers “Country Rotation” of Super Powers

April 26, 2023: War and Foreign Assets Past global wars have never to such an extend, relied on the continued construction and operation of foreign assets.

April 22, 2023: Four War Monte We call today’s discourse “Thousand Paper Cuts Trading” with good reason.

April 19,, 2023 Disaster Season Opens? “How do we sunset?  Let me count the ways…”

April 15, 2023:  Trading Box Victory? Some time back – perhaps a month or two – we mentioned a slight chance of a major rally based on use of “trading boxes.”

April 12, 2023: Tomorrow’s Best Investments Consumer prices are just out and we’ll hit that first. But then some perspective on the future impacts of Inflation and how it will change our world.

April 8, 2023: Race to Armageddon China has been building relationships while the U.S. relies on “positional power.”

April 5,2023:  A Step on the Dragon’s Tail Another adventure in our (partially) fictional Directorate 153 series of “fictionalized governmental speculations.”  

April 1, 2023: American Weimar? Was Friday’s run up into the close the end of a blow-off top?

March 29, 2023: Our Next “Mad Scientist” Project Old Man Labs here is planning another project.

March 25, 2023: Rethink: Time vs. Price No question, Price is the big factor in day trading.

March 22, 2023: Immortality: The Investment Problem Life Extension has a hard limit defined by personal income over time.

March 18, 20923: Nervous Weekend, Anyone? Between Banking (and “special treatment for the rich”) along with one war hot, one brewing, a former president facing a perp-walk, and rampant inflation in hard assets, it’s a hard weekend not to have the jitters.

March 15, 2023:  The Gamer’s Guide to the Afterlife I was wrong when I thought my book Packing to Die: Suitcase between your ears” was done.

March 11, 2023: Replaying 1929: The Bank Run Marker Silicon Valley Bank is likely not to be the only bank in this period to go down.

March 8, 2023: “Bomb List” Buying We won’t even pretend to explain this to non-subscribers in a paragraph.

March 4, 2023:  Optical Speculation Software mirrors psychology, as we figure it.

March 1, 2023: The Leading Edge of Tainter While in the shower Monday morning, one of those “Doh!” moments hit me.

February 25, 2023: Markets Breaking Ice You could almost hear the ice breaking under the weight of bloated markets this week.

February 22, 2023: Crossing Trends Analysis Wherein we put on our Casino hat (which looks suspiciously like green eyeshades) and take a whack at beating the House. Because there are times when crossing trends do matter.

18, 2023: Market Risks Rising It has taken a little longer than expected for Wave 3 down to begin clarifying.

February 15, 2023: NextGen Warstyles As the Global brinksmanship continues, some useful thinking about Warstyles is due.

February 11, 2023:  Extreme Risk Periods: At times like this – and the extremely dangerous period from next week through June – managing risk will be of paramount importance.

February 8, 2023: A Technology-Based Approach to Scrying Future No, you can’t buy our DreamTuner system – or download the Dream-Steering app.  Yet.

February 4, 2023:  Ice: After Action Report Fine tuning of prepping is in the works following the major ice storm in East Texas this past week.

February 1, 2023: Recovering Lost Tech Part 2 A super to the point report today due to being on battery power thanks to the ice storm in East Texas taking out power.

January 28, 2023: Why Rally? As we go over the ChartPack today, ahead of the Fed, one questions hovers: Why rally?

January 25, 2023: Scrying Future A “two brains are better than one” report for Subscribers today as G.A. Stewart of The Ago of Desolation website and I go looking for the methods behind Nostradamus.

January 21, 2023: Market Showdown Monday? Not too technical (we hope!) but there was some odd market behavior at the Friday close.

January 18, 2023: Mixed Blessing of Anti-Aging Medicine Economics eyes a new systemic stressor this week. 

January 14, 2023:  SitRep Jitters Ground stop on the nation’s air traffic this week triggered some might odd memories this week.

January 11, 2023:  Spiraling Economics of Industrial Systems Where to make the Ure family last stand?  Or, what’s the future of Big Cities….really?

January 7, 2023: Caution Flag Showing Wow – some rally Friday, huh?  Gobs of jobs. But real?

January 4, 2023: Evolution from Investment to Gambling Once upon a time, “Value Investing” meant something.  

December 31, 2022: ’23 and Thee The human genome is in the driver’s seat and that’s not something to look forward to in the coming year.

December 28, 2022: Global War in ’24? Right.  But is that hours or the year 2024?

December 24, 2022: The Anti-Aging Playbook Our Merry Christmas present for you is a list.

December 21, 2022:  eBook: Planning to Build a House (1) You do know the “worst of times” is when you might actually have time for a big project, right?

December 17, 2022:  Radiative Reality and Markets Is there a Black Monday, or Tuesday, in our future?

December 14, 2022: Reliability: In Trading, Prepping, & MTBF Several events have reminded me recently to “write up a useable guide to reliability.”

December 10, 2022: A Gambler’s Monday Feeling a bit compulsive, are we?  You bet.

December 7, 2022:  Faith as an Asset Our usual Peoplenomics fare is a hardnosed look at data involving cyclicity in long-term market directions

December 3, 2022:  Headlines Catching Up Remember the Talking Heads song “Lifetime Piling Up”?

November 30, 2022:  Slicing and Dicing 2023 — Every year, we take a fearless poke at the future and explain our basis for ‘Life Planning’ for the coming year.

November 26, 2022: Trend Domains We’re almost to our Annual Outlook report.

November 23, 2022: Durables, UI Filings, Charts   – This being a semi-vacation week, we’re keeping on point with breaking economic news.

November 19, 2022: Collapse Check Due Disaster at the docks is our urgent concern because “me-too financial media” doesn’t have Clue #1 about economics.

November 16, 2022: PLE – Personal Life Extension Since both of our reports next week will deal with charts only (holiday), I wanted to share some research that you’ll find very interesting. 

November 12, 2022: Do Charts Predict Future? Can charts tell us what to expect this coming week?

November 9, 2022: American Deadwood Election Day-After is a dandy time for this topic; voters have spoken and will change follow?

November 5, 2022: “Crashlection” Week Outlook When there is a “known” event of major magnitude on the way, markets often hint in advance what to expect.

November 2, 2022: Industrial Rev #3 If the first Industrial Revolution was water and steam power, while the second has been electricity and network-pushed, what will NEXT look like?

October 29,, 2022:  The Electric Future Quandary Just 10-days to Elections and 26-days until the other turkeys show up.

October 26, 2022:  Electrical Readiness When there is talk of nukes flashing off, the one critical vulnerability you will already need to have hedged is electricity.

October 22, 2022: The Money Comes From Someplace Wherein we look at a nearly 800 point increase in the Dow and wonder “WTF?” 

October 19, 2022: PT, CPT and Quantum Bounding of Choice – Oh-oh!  Into Prospect Theory (PT), Cumulative Prospect Theory (*CPT) and whether investment choices are driven by quantum bounding or, conversely, give rise to it?

October 15, 2022:  Week of Destiny? We’ve never seen charts like the ones this weekend in more than 50-years of financial writing.

October 12, 2022: “Lifeboat Homes: (2) As Ukraine ramps up, we share another couple of chapters of an upcoming book on Lifeboat Homes – homes that help you survive.

October 8, 2022:  Now We Wait — Charts and prospects as we watch the train wreck of an economy implode.

October 5, 2022: Lifeboats & Earthships — A  fresh book chapter on tap here dealing with migration of present housing stocks to a more sustainable model..

October 1,  2022: Prepping: Last Train Out? Although we don’t dwell on what it would be like to seriously prepare for global economic collapse, markets are driving today’s discussion. 

September 28, 2022: The Teaching Moments Ahead With markets in free-fall, we are again looking back at critical lessons to have internalized right now – like today –  before we get into the Replay of 1929 any deeper.

September 24, 2022: Red Friday Breakdown We stick to our economic long wave roots this morning.

September 21, 2022: Where America Went Wrong Welcome to Fed Day and the afternoon adventure of “How High Will They go?”

September 17, 2022: Crash Picking! Step right up, folks!  With the long-term market peak in, we’re gonna play Crash Call!

September 14, 2022: Asset Stripping by Government America’s end is at hand when massive financializations replace the production of real goods and services.

September 10, 2022:  Wave II’s Goodbye? A more detailed look at a possible wave count that – if it continues on track – may be the harbinger or horror, the bringer of bummer, and the foreshadow of famine as the year rolls along.

September 7, 2022: A Spiritual Key to Anti-Aging? The idea of a “lost spiritual technology” that may slow (or halt) the Aging Process is up this morning. 

September 3, 2022: Dependency Studies With the market down to our “bounce or kiss” line, some views of how the fall could roll out.

August 31, 2022:  Broken Country Fix-It Plans Why. our headline today almost sounds like one of our ShopTalk Sunday reports, doesn’t it?

August 27, 2022: Listening for the Tumblers Trying to “crack the safe” in the investment world, are you?

August 25, 2022: Outlook from the ’29 Replay Model – Odds appear to be increasing that we are entering the larger Wave 3 down in markets.

August 20, 2022: A Macroprudential Paradox Every time a Bubble arises, supporters of the “new paradigm” argue that somehow “This time it’s different.

August 17, 2022: Fall’s OPTEMPO Short for “Operations Tempo” it’s the kind of thing military commanders coordinate.

August 13, 2022:  Bad News – and Worse Two stories headline our Saturday morning thinking:  Our previously “unthinkably bad Elliott Count has been validated.

August 10, 2022: CCEO Training Let’s start with Collapse-Capable Electronics Operator training and why it’s a different cut of cloth than a ham radio operator.

August 6, 20922: The Wave Count We Hope is Wrong There is a chance now, that within a year, stock prices will have fallen to half of present levels – and maybe lower.

August 3, 2022: OMB-AB “Oh my God- Another Book” begins the morning with the first chapters of yet-another book

July 30, 2022: Hold Your Breath in August and September We are coming into a period when the term “high risk” could mean more than any other in our lifetimes.

July 27, 2022: 100-Year Toaster: Ch. 18 The paradox of growth versus environmental balance (finally) wraps up today.

July 23, 2022: Confessions of a Market Agnostic Yes.  It’s true.  I play both long (going up) positions and short (going down). 

July 20, 2022: The Return of “Sweat Equity” How would you like a brand new home and less than half price? 

July 16, 2022: Keyword Roulette Wherein we replace the programmatic news decided by the Powers and minion Editors

July 13, 2022 :Power in the Second Depression (Updated eBook) When TSHTF a lot of people will be in the dark wondering “What happened?”

July 6, 2022: The Canals of Earth (and Mars) II Who needs Russia and Ukraine when drought is coming and famine is in the wings?

July 2, 2022: Crap Metrics of 2022:  Event Arrows have been loosed that will shape the balance of 2022 and shape our entry into 2023.

June 29, 2022:“Second Sight,” Apnea, and DNA (Part 2) Dreams, probability clouds, and sleep apnea is not the most mainstream economics and stock trading discussion you’ll run into, today

June 25, 2022: Vacation Uncertainty So much for deserving a break today.

June 22, 2022:  The Fall of Babel 2.0 While our rise as a technical society has exceeded past efforts, over time it seems destined to fail.

June 18, 2022: Prophecy, Cardiac Insufficiency, and Hypoxia My latest adventures in the world of medicine – like a recent nuclear treadmill test – have lit a series of interesting linkages.

June 15, 2022:  Second Depression – Survival Gardening Guide: Let me see: The stock market has dropped 10.6 percent in the last 12 calendar days and you wonder why this and why now?

June 11, 2022:  The Crash and Depression Problem Economics is a lot like meteorology, we reckon.

June 8, 2022: Thinking Over “Detirement” This is really a report on faddish Accounting, because it drives so much else.

June 4, 2022: Advice from Capt. Gooding Two parts to this morning’s report. 

June 1, 2022:  Mapping the Second Depression Ever since December 2021, when we began advising it was time to learn gardening, conditions have been building toward Depression before 2023.

May 28, 2022:  Four Horsemen of Summer This being a holiday weekend, we will mainly focus on charts.

May 25, 2022: A Peoplenomics report today which is sure to get a large following, both with centrists and (probably) with fusion centers.

May 21, 2022: Moment of Realization The report that the stock market (measured by the Dow Industrials) has now experienced its longest losing streak since 1923 is certainly no surprise around here.

May 19, 2022:  Side-Hustles for Seniors Not enough on your plate to worry you? Time to become a “Seniorpreneur!”

May 14, 2022: Trend Channel Trading Another look over my shoulder as we use “alternative means” in our quest to beat markets.”

May 11, 2022:  Workstations for All:  The companion to the mini ebook “A Life of Gods” on time and task management is unveiled this morning.  This one deals with workstations and workflows. 

May 7, 2022: Collapse Americana With the stock market in the biggest losing streak in decade, we are beginning to see what may be the outlines of systemic collapse fill-in around the edges. 

May 4, 2022: A Life of Gods: A synthesis of goal planning and time management styles.

April 30, 2022: Real Victory Lap Not only was our forecast Monday of a “1,000 points down” week mighty close…but it hints at what’s to come.

April 27, 2022:  Testimony of Product Tester 1078 Sometimes, it’s hard to write directly about “what the data says.”

April 23, 2022: The Hollow Victory Lap The market tracked brilliantly (down) to our expectations this week.  However, the “Bernanke Paradox” is still driving.

April 20, 2022: Two Alternatives to Social Media — George went domain name shopping this week because two pretty good ideas have come along and subscribers get a first look.

April 16, 2022: Before You Write a Thing… How to become a High Output Production Writer (Part 2)

April 13, 2022: The Rise of Non-Productive Work Ever see the “cutsie” office sign?

April 9, 2022: Before You Write a Thing… How to become a High Output Production Writer (part 1)

April 6, 2022: Let’s Hear it For Non-Monetary Investments “There’s more to Life than Money,” goes an old saying.

April 2, 2022: Ancient Children” Previewed Another book is in the works and you’ll find the research done for this one quite interesting.

March 30, 2022: The “Unclouded” Future There is a business model battle going on in plain sight that will largely determine our future.

March 26, 2022: Karnak and the Market With even Joe Biden hinting that famine will be the next scapegoat for our failing economy, some discussion about how next week could lay out.

March 23, 2022: Wartime Investing We don’t like to think about War as a condition under which investment decisions must be made.

March 19, 2022: Do Markets Tell Us the Future? Seriously – in like a Nostradamus-like way?

March 16, 2022:  10-Years Ahead Where is “Beyond Prepping” these days?

March 12, 2022: Globalism’s Break-up The flavor of global socialism driven by computational engines is on the verge of break-up.

March 9, 2022: The Knowledge Preservation Crisis If you have corporate knowledge preservation. you’re possibly unprepared for this weekend.

March 5, 2022:  The Depression No One Sees (Yet) My early (premature to the narrative) of a 55 MPH speed limit in Friday’s Urban column caused some consternation.
March 2, 2022: PWP: Personal War Planning A broad spectrum  discussion of war today:  Causes, motivations, and public reaction.

February 26, 2022:  A “Big Moves” Trading Indicator There is always opportunity in the midst of chaos; even with our Aggregate Trading indicator.

February 23, 2022: Invention Mapping  (& UFOs) Is there a hidden history to meta-materials?

February 19, 2022: Russia and Time Risk As we watch the potential count-down clock to WW III, a discussion of time risk seems in order.

February 16, 2022: Force Majeure for the Paranoid As something of a perma-Bear I am frequently found playing the short side of markets…

February 12, 2022:  Bullets vs. Phones Although we had been pulling for a rally to appear Friday, markets sank and with it odds of semi-global war in coming weeks and months increases.

February 9, 2022:  Quest for Future Assets Where we ask “What will constitute “value” or “storehouse of value” 20-years from now?

February 5, 2022: How Long Does Putin Wait? After putting on a good show part of Friday, markets weakened at the close. 

February 2, 2022: LANWAPR: Luck, Assets, Net Worth and Prospects We need to focus on Luck, once in a while.

January 29, 2022:  Hedging More Shortages As uncomfortable as 2021 was, 2022 is still setting up to be even worse.

January 26, 2022: Prepping and the Art of PH&LP Personal Hysteresis and Latency Planning.

January 22, 2022: Running of the Bears? WFA (word frequency analysis) time as we assess the week’s damage to markets.

January 19, 2022 :HFGH: How the Future Gets Here Forget the over-touted multiverse. 

January 15, 2022: Charts Warning Again With a holiday weekend, we pause to consider our market charts,

January 12, 2022: Roadmap to the New Inflation Despite the Fed boss ramble Tuesday, our pessimism grows.

January 8, 2022:  Climate? VLSR is the Answer! A quarter century back, I committed to an “ethical lifestyle.” 

January 5, 2022:  The Kind of Interview that Matters We usually keep our nose on the “economics and wise-spending” grindstone.

January 1, 2022: Non-linear Humans One useful observation in my (almost) 73-years, is that humans each have their own specific “non-linearity zones.”

December 29, 2021: The Q2BA Addendum Quest to Beat Aging was well-received, but incomplete, in subscriber views.

December 25, 2021: 2022: War Year? Odds are rising the “hot word” of 2022 will be “NSNW.”

December 22, 2021:  Quest to Beat Aging We offer our Christmas 2021 ebook on anti-aging experiments we’ve been conducting.

December 18, 2021:  WW III Dry Run? Sometimes, history can help scale our “worst case” thinking.

December 15, 2021: Sighting In 2022 (Part 3) With some of the big issues out of the way, the rest of 2022’s drivers can be lined up and then some ideas tabled. 

December 11, 2021:Texting to Decline Simplified communication reflects a tribe of simpletons is our origin point this morning.

December 8, 2021:  Sighting In 2022 (2) A focus on the Environment today following our outlooks for the basics of food, water, and shelter.

December 4, 2021: Life Loops: Elliott Waves of Humans? We take a pause to consider human predictability and that of markets.

December 1, 2021: Sighting in on 2022 (1) We don’t need to wait for the New Year to show up; we can extrapolate several courses the plot of this (bad) movie and make our plans already. 

November 27, 2021: Modeling the Very End Not of a bull market, but the entire silliness of global civilization.

November 24, 2021:  SpiritualDevices.com Today we unveil a new business plan – on a project near and dear – and a bit of analysis on what the Fed has been up to.

November 20, 2021:  Ominous Calcs for 2022 No, this is not a doomporn piece.

November 17, 2021:  Profits from Predictions? Can people profit from knowledge of the future?

November 13,, 2021: Markets:  Does Turkey-Lurkey? Mainly, we consider charts today because resolution is upon us and always occurs. 

November 10, 2021: Adaptive Lifestyle Planning Been asked by a subscriber to explain how Elaine and I came to Texas almost 20-years ago. 

November 6, 2021:  The MOOTW Surprise That’s short for Military Operations Other Than War.

November 3, 2021:  Prepper Drone Tactics After a look at the breaking ADP job report..

October 30, 2021: Fifth Wave Mapping Although there’s a chance of collapse in coming weeks, the powering ahead to new all-time-highs has interesting implications.

October 27, 2021:  Emergency “Click Prepping” OK, let’s – just for the halibut – that we wake up some morning like tomorrow – and our worst fears all show up.

October 23, 2021:  Inflection Point Weekend Instead of a “focus report” this morning, we focus on charts.

October 20, 2021:Time for a SBR? That’s a “Science-Based Religion” plugin?

October 16, 2021: Four Futures – and a Joker Wherein we look at Future’s “deal” over the next couple of years. 

October 13, 2021: Hiding Disaster with Excess Cash — A series of thought-experiments to ponder.   (Also: Failing eyesight tips…)

October 9, 2021: ***The “Lunch Money” Trading System A number of people have asked me to lay out this “Lunch Money Trading System” I keep talking about.” ***

October 6, 2021:Thoreau, Tainter, and… Elaine? Wherein we look at “marginal rates of return on additional effort.”

October 2, 2021: 1929 Replay Notes Sure, some social harmonies.  But show us the Money!

September 29, 2021: Temporal Nomography Yes.  A Simple Way to get a better bead on the future.

September 25, 2021:  Dueling Nonlinearities Some hard core economic reality leaked this week from one of the regional Fed chiefs.

September 22, 2021:  Dimensioning  Collapse — Yes, the anti-fragile crowd could be wrong.

September 18, 2021: Anticipating the Implosion — With our Aggregate index long-term top holding (for now) we can project how bad things are likely to become over the rest of the year.

September 15, 2021: Social Security Contingencies (Part 2) Although I’m not a financial advisor, we do serve up an interesting mix of ideas for dealing with Social Security benefit reductions should they come along.

September 11, 2021: 9/11 +20:  Fears for America’s Underbelly Much somber discussion and recall this weekend.

September 8, 2021: Social Security Contingencies Although 2034 seems a long ways off, not too early to be rethinking Social Security.

September 4, 2021:  Drones and Prepping? Bet you didn’t know there are over a million drones now registered in the U.S., did you?

September 1, 2021:  Automatic Money I don’t like to be overly focused on “automatic money.”

August 28, 2021:  A Silver Lining to Bond Disintermediation

August 25, 2021:  China Lights it Up? Nature abhors a vacuum – and the Biden mess in Afghanistan is creating a huge one.

August 21, 2021:  Preview of Coming Attractions Between events in the shop this week, and Biden pulling troops before others, we see a vision of the future that looks horrific.

August 18, 2021:  Book Update:  The 100-Year Toaster My book Packing to Die: Suitcase Between Your Ears is now available on Amazon for Kindle.

August 14, 2021:  Calm Before The… SitRep and the Charts today since the week was consumed with “book work.”

August 11, 2021: CPI–  Plus We Finish the Book Packing to Die: Suitcase between Your Ears should be on Amazon in a couple of weeks.

August 7, 2021: Merry Christmas Fat guys in red suits aren’t needed; not when we have a Federal Reserve and a conflicted bond market.

August 4, 2021: Skipping Out on Death Two more chapters of my book “Packing to Die: Suitcase between your ears” today.

July 31, 2021: Depression Like No Other  – A twisted tale of future studies, dream worlds, and computers that run intelligence is our topic.

July 28, 2021:  Slowing Down Aging – Mental Tricks Another chapter in the next book “Packing to Die:  The Suitcase between your Ears…”

July 24, 2021: Edging Toward Re-Lock 10-days ago we canceled upcoming visitors to our home.

July 21, 2021:  Guidestone Calculus  –With markets in turmoil, a pause for reflection on the Georgia Guide Stones paradox may be useful. 

July 17, 2021:  Our StratPlan for Lockdown 2.0 Touched on this on UrbanSurvival Friday; today details.

July 14, 2021:  A Day Without the Web: A lot has happened since I wrote the book Broken Web in 2012. 

July 10, 2021: Woo on Rails, Doldrums Score another one for woo-woo. 

July 7, 2021:  “Packing to Die” – Chapters 13 & 14 Transportable wealth – the kind you can take with you – can only be stored between your ears and in your heart.

July 3, 2021: Redefining America Over what we hope will be a quiet long weekend, it’s useful to ponder and “big picture” America’s Prospects.

June 30, 2021:  “Packing to Die” Latest installment of my book this morning deals with a process called  Destructuring. 

June 26,, 2021:  America’s Thousands of Heroes: The heat is on in the West this weekend and into next week.

June 23, 2021:  “Packing to Die” -The Book Continues: Connecting to Energy. Amped without trying is on the table this morning.

June 19, 2921: Work of the Universe? Besides a stock market with a “case of the wobblies” much else in moving now.

June 16, 2021:  “Packing to Die” (Ch. 1): The Suitcase Between Your Ears. 

June 12, 2021: Unconvincing Markets and Space-Time Notes: This weekend, I’ll be doing some initial testing of (subscribers know what).

June 9, 2021:  UFOs, UAPs, and Trans-dimensional Physics: My 2017 book “Dimensions Next Door” now seems likely to be a very useful starting point for UFO and UAP research.

June 4, 2021: More than a Double-Top? Our Aggregate Index closed the week in an unusual technical position. 

June 2, 2021: Woke:  America’s Cultural Revolution? Zooming out from daily headlines, a major shift becomes apparent.

May 29, 2021:  Stuck in the Middle: Common theme to events: economic this Memorial Day.

May 26, 2021: The Future of Invention: Economics and Invention are inextricably tied. (Babbage was right…)

 May 22, 2021: Praise for Strategic Cowardice: It’s hard to think straight during a National Psychosis.

May 19, 2021: Fed Minutes Loom: With Elaine’s second hip surgery done, we are back to being transfixed by markets.

May 15, 2021:  Strategic Liquidity: We ask a rational question:  “What is modern (post-Colonial)  liquidity?” 

May 12, 2021: The Velocity of War: With the kidnap/ransom of a major pipeline system, time we reconsider our “everyday perception” of War. 

May 8, 2021: Cleaning Off My Desk: It may not seem like a useful column headline, but there’re a ton of Post-Its all over the digital desktop.

May 5, 2021:  A Few Scary Bets: We spend an exceptional amount of time focusing on the Future around here.

May 1, 2021:  May-Day! While we don’t expect global war this weekend, there’s plenty of reason to be concerned with the balance of the year.

April 28, 2021: Yes.  Money Does Buy Happiness:   Even with inflation coming, if you have even grocery money, you can hedge.

April 24, 2021:  Print Higher or Collapse? Our Saturday ChartPack teases some interesting problems for next week. April 28, 2021

April 21, 2021:  Living in the “Land of More”:  An exercise in Future Forecasting comes into view.

April 17, 2021:  The Case for Hyperinflation: There are is only one way out of Depression:  Destroying savings.

April 14, 2021:  Website Refresher Course: Peoplenomics readership is pretty broad and many of our readers are involved with the web.

April 10, 2021:  Life Loops and Investing Yes, an odd topic, but one useful if you are troubleshooting bad trading.

April 7, 2021:  Real Estate Trends In our usual look-ahead way, we assess a couple of trends you may be able to use to advantage in coming years.

April 3, 2021:  Charts, and Notes Happy Easter.  And odd assortment of items today.

March 31, 2021:  Alt Investments (2) We continue looking at the wide range of investments today by looking at tangibles after (in part 1) the only real (enduring) wealth is that between your ears.

March 27, 2021: “From the “War Student’s Notebook” Main item today, one that could pop from China, the Middle East, and/or Ukraine. “

March 24, 2021:  Alt. Investments (1) It’s not ALL about money.  Oftentimes, you can both invest and get some real pleasure out of people and things.

March 20, 2021:  Rollover Now or Higher? As much as theory attracts us, there’s nothing like a series of multiple trades – each with small profits – to work in the direction of eventual retirement.

March 17, 2021:  Periodicity Within Collapse: By some  measures, the stock market is at new highs this week.

March 13, 2021:  A Climate Note to the Heirs It’s easy to have “right now” views.  But, how’re they going to look 10-50 or 100-years out?

March 10, 2021:  How Elon Musk Saved Prepping (and Rural America)  No, not a Model 3.  Not a PowerWall.

March  6, 2021: The Sweet (But Crooked) Lies of MMT The U.S. is going down an inflationary path, now.

March 3, 2021:  “How Bad Could It Get?? Roadmap to collapse, anyone?

February 27, 2021: The Dogs of History Once again, the daily news flow provides some interesting insights into the cyclical nature of human behavior and the emerging Digital World Order (DWO).

February 24, 2021: Can “They” Pull It Out? “They” being the PowersThatBe in the financial universe.

February 20, 2021:  Fixing the World: 3 Deft Moves A broad look at America’s energy future this morning.

February 17, 2021: Storm Tactics – A Critique Some things we got right – a few things wrong.

February 13, 2021:  Systemic Dependencies and Bug-Out Deluxe Two items besides a very “toppy looking” market on the agenda today.

February 6, 2021: Replay Complete! In our pre-Super Bowl edition, we mainly focus on the ChartPack.

February 3, 2021:  Evolving A Trading Rule Set Problem is, which Trend is someone talking about? 

January 30, 2021: Live on $10,000 a Year – Chapter 2 Just couldn’t stop writing or working, after all.

January 27, 2021:  The “20-Something” Cycle Today, hardcore economics with a side of woo-woo.

January 23, 2021:  Has “Tech” Attacked America? We  declare World War 3 underway.  The Battlespace is Everywhere.

January 20, 2021:  Live on $10,000 – The Sequel — By far, the most popular book I’ve ever written has been “How to Live on $10,000 a Year, Or Less…”

January 16, 2021:  Solving for R While we’re waiting to become fabulously wealthy when the market collapses, we manage to squeeze in a bit of “Saving Humanity from Itself” as well.

January 13, 2021:  Economics and the Precision “Clocks of History” Hardcore long wave economics on tap this morning. 

January 9, 2021:  The “Jack D. Future” Show:   Occasionally, in order to get across our somewhat unorthodox views, we will resort to fiction.

January 6, 2021:  “The Power of Autarky Our coverage of the “War Between the Bankers” picks up from the Monday nosebleed in the market.

January 2, 2021:  “Now That’s We’re 21…” Focus today is on Vaccinations and Resolutions.

December 30, 2020:  Are there limits to taxation?  As we wrap up what has been a good year (in terms of taxes) the prospects for the period ahead are troubling indeed.

December 26, 2020:  Questions That Linger A Nashville explosion – was it an attack on the web?

December 23, 2020:  A Psychological Stocking-Stuffer What’s true of money is you “Can’t take it with you.”

December 19:2020:  An Evidence-Based Consciousness Problem Bored?  Waiting for Hyperinflation to become more obvious?

December 16, 2020:  Annual Outlook Issue We introduce a new term into the economic lexicon this year:  Pandemnomics.

December 12, 2020:  A “Credible Show” We have hinted recently that A.I. may already be mediating the merger between global capitalism and global communism.

December 9, 2020″  The Oceans of Mars Our semi-monthly update on a “personal science project” to hack space-time.

December 5, 2020: An “Ultimate Defensive Strategy” There are lots of us – old men of the web who have been writing about pendency of collapse for 20-years (or longer) – and a quiet consensus is beginning to form

 December 2, 2020: Covid-19:  Social Problem Solver? One of our readers requested we turn a carefully tuned eye toward some of the longer-term outcomes of CV-19.

November 28, 2020:  “No Collapse for 30 Days?   That’s an interesting bet given the VIX was under 20 Friday.  Means no one is afraid.”

November 25, 2020:  High Data Density Some interesting calculations about how the present-day “record Dow” is doing little more than a repeat of (gulp!) 1929.

November 21, 2020: Two-Part Report:  Crypto Patent Filing plus Tech Waves and 3D

November 18, 2020: Reality Busting Ahead We are continuing our efforts toward making a real-life time machine.

November 14, 2020: A Trading “Insurance Policy?” Our Focus today is on trading discipline and tools. 

November 11, 2020: Navigating Lifestyle Collapse Word that CV-19 has continued to accelerate comes as no surprise around here; we’ve been projecting it for months.

November 7, 2020:  Independent Human Research Groups (HIRIG) Tired of wasting your time on social media and election jitters?

November 4, 2020: Worst Possible Outcome Stand by for American to “fix” a bunch of non-problems.

October 31, 2020: Speed’s What Ails Us This follows our recent take on William S. Lind’s book Retroculture.

October 28: 2020:  “Global Reset” and a Vision A curious hybrid report this morning: economics with a side of woo-woo.

October 24, 2020:  In “Noncomputational Economics & the Network of Creation ” While looking for reasons why human telepathy doesn’t work, we may have found some (effectively) “CHMOD” locks built into humans.

October 21, 2020: Race, Retroculture, and Some Rural Reservations  (Peoplenomics issue 1000-A!)

October 17, 2020:  Peoplenomics: Wednesday will be “Issue #1,000” for us, time to pull 20-odd years of study into something for posterity.

October 14, 2020: In Plain Sight A change of pace today as we look at a couple of historical oddities.

October 10, 2020: “Can I Beat Algos?” Can we simple humans out trade the machines in our own image, anymore?

October 7, 2020: Domain Warfare – We look ahead at what could be in store for America into 2021.

October 3, 2020:  The Reaction Speed Diet – Want to live 30% longer?  Stick around.

September 30:, 2020: The New WMDs — Think of them as eWMDs as we fit them into the overall evolution of WMDs over historical periods.

September 26, 2020:  Investing In Happiness Age-old question here, but with some different views.

September 23, 2020: Crashflow: “Who’s Coming For It?” Calamity Cash Flow our topic, as promised, today.

September 19, 2020:  Culture War Between the Uncles We size up the death of Uncle Sam as an internal “national cohesiveness marketing tool” of America.

September 16, 2020:  Down-Conditioning Another nominee is presented in our quest to find the Grand News Unifier.

September 12, 2020:  RKA on 3DP with a Side of CNC Rapid Knowledge Acquisition on 3-D Printing with a side of Computer Numerical Control is on the agenda today.

September 9, 2020: AARoI and Tactical Trading Screw the “usual” few headlines this morning. We’ve got bigger fish to fry. (AAROI & Multiple DMA’s in charting)

September 5, 2020:  Trouble in the Charts – Tough Markets Coming?

September 2, 2020:  Who’s There? UAPs and UFOs are explored in this survey article.

August 29, 2020:  CV-19 – As a Synthetic Depression? America’s economy requires periodic setbacks or it implodes.

August 26, 2020:  FML:  Functional Monkey Learning Are you still bamboozled by people in Higher Education waxing endlessly on learning topologies and impact on pedagogy before students?

August 22, 2020:  Kiss the Fed Goodbye? Just too much going on to ignore fresh developments in CryptoLand.

August 19, 2020:  Sealing the Exits Building’s on fire.  Fire department has been called.  All safe?  No…not if…..

August 15, 2020:  Wet Noodle Economics You can almost taste the changes in the air.

August 12, 2020: Successful Geezerhood (2)  Fresh CPI data, the UK slides into recession, liberal “gush” about Kamala.

August 8, 2020:  Successful Geezerhood Part 1 this morning of a look-ahead for young people.

August 5, 2020: Threat Board Mastery Information is the “high ground” in all matters these days. 

August 1, 2020:  Faster Than Light Adventures: With markets insane, and with Fitch lowering its outlook on U.S. debt to negative, there’s a “clock running” on America before the Second Depression is widely felt. We need a break.

July 29, 2020:  Global “Revolution” or “Taxolution”? We begin to tiptoe around whether we can be taxed into communism under the false-flag or “socialism.”

July 25, 2020: The Migration of Work (2) We tackle the second part of the recent “dream realms experience” this morning.

July 23, 2020:  Things Just Got Strange   Sorry, but this morning’s comments are for subscribers only. 

July 22, 2020:  The Migration of Work (1) Odd report today – it begins with a side of “woo-woo” in a dream.

July 18, , 2020:  “V” – As in Virus and Vacation   The Ure’s face an interesting problem: One you likely will come up against if you haven’t, already- vacation planning.

July 15, 2020: Gold or the S&P? Sure, buying hard assets sounds like a good idea.  But how did our 2001 buy work out?

July 11, 2020:  “Groundsteading” in 2030 Suppose, for a moment, that your “future self” could write a letter to your “present-day self” and offer pointers navigating what’s to come.

July 8, 2020:  Aging: A Frontier Check Toss the fish oil?  Sleep on the ground?  Throw your water in the blender first?  Yes, the Mad Scientist and his beautiful assistant have been at it again.

July 4, 2020: Rethinking the G20 Role I couldn’t just sleep-in.  Had something on my mind that we need to watch for in coming weeks.

July 1, 2020: Book Preview:  “The Mad Scientist’s Notebook” Oh no!  George has roughed out another book idea.

June 27, 2020:  Ahead:  Reliving the 1930’s (In Advance) With a mix of terror and remorse, we line up the “history that logically follows” as the markets prepare for collapse.

June 24, 2020:  MMT: Marxist Monetary Trickery If stock market behavior, of late, hasn’t “hung together” for you, we have the answer!

June 20, 2020: The “New WEH” [Web-Empowered-Human] “A Training Routine for Digital Knowledge-Fishing” is our focus today.

June 17, 2020:  Prepping for Heat Without Power Today, a prepping topic few people talk about:  In the event TSHTF, how will you “chill?”

June 13, 2020:  D153: Financialization Nonlinearity Zones We use our fictional Directorate 153 framework to reveal some interesting – and under appreciated aspects of economics.

June 10, 2020:  We Are What We Sing:  With all the discord in America, what better way to get in touch with “Who We Are” than turning on the Radio?

June 6, 2020:  The “High-Photon Diet” (part 2) Binary beats of a light/lambda sort as Bonghan-ducts is our topic of focus today.

June 3, 2020:  The “High-Photon Diet” (part 1) As the darkness of society’s digital psychological break rolls over the world, a refreshing break with some “new science.”

May 30, 2020:  [Missing in action due to operator error.]

May 27, 2020:  On Reducing Your Operating Costs A practical discussion and hints on reducing the cost of living.

May 23, 2020:  Prepping Your Tech Monday being a holiday, we get back to prepping for “whatever comes next.” 

May 20, 2020:  Prepping For Wave 2 With more than 100-million back in locked in China, why isn’t the U.S. media talking about recurrent risk?

May 16, 2020:  Market Statistics Worth Study Is there an easier way to track the “mood of the market?”

May 13, 2020:  Moving Wealth Through Time Some of us are getting old and want to “pass something along.”

May 9, 2020: Jobs Down – Market’s Up: What Gives Is there a logical limit to the Fed’s Making Up Money interventions?

May 6, 2020: Affording the “Golden Years” One of the most important topics once you reach the “ripe old age of 50” as many of our readers have.

May 2, 2020: Career Plans for Tomorrow A look at some future “bounding problems” ahead for young people.

April 29, 2020: Directorate 153:  Quest to Take-Back the Future Another one of those [possibly meaningful] lucid dreams of mine.

April 25, 2020: TTRTT? Short for “Time To Re-Think Texas?”

April 22, 2020:  A Wednesday Two-Fer Two items matter this morning:  Understanding dynamics of serialized news will satisfy our “news junkies.”

April 18, 2020:  New America? Check the Rearview Wherein we “look ahead in the rearview” with a unique historical guidepost system most people don’t think about.

April 15, 2020:  Knockdown: Lifestyles a’ Changing An obituary this morning, to the good old days with a silver living.

April 11, 2020:  Around the Ranch While we wait for what seems like a Wave 2 rally to complete, a look at what life’s really like around here.

April 8, 2020:  A Curious Letter to Judah Tyreman A trip into deeper entanglement woo-woo.

April 4, 2020:  Soft Beginnings of the Hard Depression Think it’s been hard with the market decline, so far?  Brace yourself. 

April 1, 2020: Target Year Life Planning As COVID-19 sloshes around, we suggest some serious movie-watching as a tonic.

March 28, 2020:  Evidence: Cultural  Knowledge of Entanglement After the morning’s “bad news” we’re going for a “time out” and a “useful distraction” to keep from dwelling on the growing pile of problems.

March 25, 2020:  What to Spend Your Assets On There is lot more to this discussion than “money” in the digital/fiat sense. 

March 21, 2020: The Virus: From Beyond “Iron Mountain” It’s an honest writer’s confession that I admired the late author Leonard C. Lewin.

March 18, 2020:  Directorate 153: Entangled Communicators Welcome to another Lock-limit and crash risk day.

March 14, 2020:  Complexity Implodes Here’s a dirty secret about the Big Bang:  It doesn’t go on for ever…and eventually it reverses. 

March 11, 2020:  The Economics of Solomon Fabulously wealthy, mentioned in three major religions..and a figure who may provide insight into modern economica.   

March 7, 2020: Hobo’s, the Grinder, and Destruction of Savings If our topic sounds a bit scattered, they’re not:  It’s a cross between a Sit-Rep, Social Outlook about Where Your Money’s going.

March 4, 2020: Orthogonality and Woo-Woo in Markets An exposition today on what the Fed rate cut, market reaction, woo-woo, and time machine research have in common. 

February 29, 2020:  Time Compression in Modern Markets This morning we consider the problem of how much faster markets seem to be moving than in the descent into the Great Depression.

February 26, 2020:  Structured Water – Anything To It? In a word: Yes, maybe…  But that’s where today’s research gets interesting.

February 22, 2020:  Move Over NZT — The Second chapter of my next informational project “Hacking Old Aging” rolls out today. 

February 19, 2020:  Hacking “Old Age” (1) Another “lap around Life” hits this week as 71-rolls by. 

February 15, 2020: The End of “Flat-Land News” Advances in data summarization and presentation has outstripped the average human’s ability to live 

January 8, 2020: A “Fax-Machine for Things” Here’s a trillion-dollar idea for you – free of charge.

January 4, 2020: Here Comes Ultra-Make.com Turns out (surprising even me) that the final chapter of our “100-Year Toaster” book is not only a radical manufacturing idea…

January 1, 2020: “KDM: Knowledge Deficiency Mapping Even approaching 71, no shortage of learning to do – much of it involuntarily. “

December 25, 2019: “Just the Charts Today First, a Merry Christmas and a very happy New Years, particularly our Peoplenomics.com subscribers. “

December 21, 2019 “Annual Forecast Issue (Part 2) More specifics than generalities now, as we roll through the details of what we think will happen in 2020. “

December 18, 2019 Annual Forecast Issue (Part 1) Normally, our Annual Forecast is a single issue, but I wanted to try something bit different this year.

December 14, 2019: A Time Machine Project Update A new kind of Grand Unified Theory appears in our meta data work.

December 7, 2019: Product of the Decade: Climate Change One of our guiding principles is that “Everything’s a Business Model.”

November 30, 2019: When is The Top In? Problem on the table this morning is “When to take the money and run?”

November 23, 2019: 10-YIP & 1-YIH: Besides mastery of self- discipline, holidays are a great time to lay out a “10-Year Investment Program.”

November 20, 2019: Shop, Workbench, and Desktop Discipline Since we’re going into the “slow holiday weeks” I thought it would be useful to work on self-discipline.

November 16, 2019: A Quick Way to Chart Stocks With the stock market closing the week in record high country, we focus today on ways to tell when we have started to turn down.

November 13, 2019:The Case for Global Income Limits Many “social stories” outline essential economic questions that are easily solved.

Novermber 9, 2019: Decrypting Data Big discussions today on Fed Repo actions, the rise of Non-depository “banks,” the Berlin Wall 30-years later, and some business activity numbers.

November 6, 2019: A Global Work Shortage The Fed is price-fixing and the Bubble is here.

October 30, 2019: “Building a Real Time Machine” (Part 3) Narrowing the “fishing grounds” today we consider the Q of Time.

October 26, 2019: A Simple Method to Spot “Fake News: With all the attention in media to “fake news” we present a short course in sorting “wheat from chaff” today.

October 23, 2019: Telluric Energy Prospecting Lab notes today on some of our “further-out” thinking.

October 16, 2019: “The “Suitcase Between Your Ears” “You can’t take it with you?”

October 12, 2019: The Problem with Treasure Hunting Today we pencil out how much money might be made if the stock market decline of 1929.

October 5, 2019:”.

October 2, 2019: “Building a Real Time Machine” Part 1 We pick up where my book Dimensions Next Door left off.

September 29, 2019: “The 100-Year Toaster” Ch. 14 Equational madness: At the limits of business models.

September 25, 2019: “The 100-Year Toaster” Ch. 13 What “Report from Iron Mountain” missed.

September 21, 2019: “.

September 18, 2019: So THAT’s Where My Idea Went! Ever have a good idea?

September 14, 2019: 2020: Three Tales of Future Positioning of the democrat wannabes, weather “roll-ups,” and the coming of “virtual reporters.”

September 11, 2019: Annual “Anti-Aging” Progress Report Time to update September 2018’s Peoplenomics 891-B where we outlined recent advances in anti-aging.

September 7. 2019: “Time Machine Engineering Notes No, actually, I’m not kidding.

September 4, 2019: “The 100-Year Toaster” (Ch.11) Value Propositions and Economic Models today.

August 31, 2019: “Double Issue: “The 100-Year Toaster” (Ch. 10) And in Woo-Woo: Friday’s Time Shift The Corruption of Money and a Tremendous Woo-Woo event. “

August 28, 2019: “Bigger than the Trade War What could be bigger, right?

August 24, 2019: “A Non-Numeric Mathematics Lesson Today’s report may read like something out of a sci-fi book.

August 21, 2019: “Mastering “Patientology” Say, there’s a word for you.

August 17, 2019: “Advanced EMP Considerations The non-public part of Coms in the AfterCrash on UrbanSurvival today.”

August 14, 2019: “What’s “Worth Buying?” It’s not a trivial question, not by any stretch.”.

August 10, 2019: “Quest for Super-Healing: With a hernia surgery, inquiring minds wanted to know: “Can we cheat a bit?”

August 7, 2019: Our New Trump Policy Ouch! Day after hernia surgery and a new idea hits: We’re looking at a “Trump Policy” for our websites.

August 3, 2018: “Prepping: For Ebola Yeah, I know: Why not focus on Hong Kong? “

July 31, 2019: “Old People” Money You can’t take it with you, but you don’t want to squander it, either.

July 27, 2019: “Centralized Manufacturing Must Die” The revolution we forecast in 2005 with the appearance of desktop 3D printers is now here.

July 24, 2019: Organizing a Serious Workshop Many people have “special interest’ workspaces. But what if you have lots of interests?

July 20, 2019: Right Now the Fed Matters Political distractions aside, the real news is under the surface this week.

July 13, 2019: “The 100-Year Toaster” (Ch.9) Who owns the environment?

July 6, 2019: A. Continuous-Yield Survival Garden Project (Part 1) Other than “canned sunshine” (nukes) and mega-quakes, and water, what’s the biggest exposure to a long life people have?

July 3, 2019: Slow-Speed Social Collapse Faster than Rome, Slower than Venezuela.

June 26, 2019: “The 100-Year Toaster” (Ch. 8) Energy is the ‘new money.’

Junje 22, 2019: “The 100-Year Toaster” (Ch. 7) Million Mile & 100 MPG Cars.

June 15, 2019: “The 100-Year Toaster” (Ch. 6) The Trouble with McMansions.

June 12, 2019: “The 100-Year Toaster” (Ch. 5) Survivors can’t rule out famine.

June 5, 2019: ”

June 1, 2019: “The 100-Year Toaster” (Ch. 3) Today: Limits to Growth: People, Resources, and Money.

May 29, 2019: “The 100-Year Toaster” (Ch. 2) How did the entire world get sucked into its excessive consumption addiction?

May 25, 2019: “The 100-Year Toaster” Worthwhile reading for all, we hope, though especially Millennial’s, as we trace the “Death of Quality” in consumer goods.

May 22, 2019: PopDrop and SynGrow Two big stories this week frame a change in how the US Economy works.

May 15, 2019: The World’s “Wasted People” Time for a rethink of social programs?

May 11, 2019: Anti-Gravity: The Roll-out Issues Recent U.S. Navy anti-gravity patents hold both promise and problems.

May 4, 2019: A Visit to the Woo-Woo Department: While Peoplenomics’ main focus is economics, there’s a secondary focus on “living well.”

May 1, 2019: BRI & Soft World War Understanding China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” is key to understanding the shifting sands of planetary economic warfare.

April 27, 2019: “Economic Impacts of Anti-Gravity Tech (1) U.S. Navy “mass reduction” patents have been surfacing lately. .”

April 24, 2019: Small Business Start-Up Kit Universe has just “knocked twice.”

April 20, 2019: What Economic Growth? Donald Trump has another problem besides Mueller fallout to worry about.

pril 17, 2019: Table of Alt. Futures Are we toping or readying for new highs?

April 10, 2019: Renting Your Life, II: What does Elaine’s leather & mink jacket have to do with government?

April 6, 2019: Current Research Too many subjects and not enough time at Old Man Labs.

April 3, 2019: Reconsidering Nostradamus Was he a “linguistic magician” or a “mystic linguician?”

March 30, 2019: Spinning Up the Intel Platform With War on the Horizon, time to dial things in.

March 23, 2019: The Mueller Market? Was the Friday 460-point Dow break all over a “nothing sandwich?”

March 20, 2019: Power in the Greater Depression (Ch. 10) Installation is simple…but not really…

March 13, 2019: Fats and Hats – Life by the Pound Data-driven oddities to note before and after TSHTF

March 9, 2019: Sunspots, Markets, and the Invention Cycle; some thought-provoking data to consider.

March 2, 2019: Documening Life and Home: How much is enough?

February 23, 2019: Imagineering Your Home “You are Where You Think.”

February 16, 2019: Power in the Greater Depression (Ch. 6) EMP, HEMP, SREMP and other robust power design parameters.

February 9, 2018: On Holden the Golden

February 2, 2019: Power in the Greater Depression (Ch. 3)

January 26. 2019: Power in the Greater Depression (Ch 1.)

January 19, 2019: Recovery of Lost Technologies

January 12, 2019: The Back Pain Detective

January 5, 2019: Rebranding Retirement

December 26, 2018: Our Annual Outlook for 2019

December 19, 2018: AI or Algo’s?

December 12, 2018: Markets: Trump on Way Out?

December 5, 2018: Quakes, Passings, and the G20

November 28, 2018: Why we are on Crash Watch going into Monday

November 21, 2018: A Cautious Look at Growth

November 14, 2018: “News” – Its Revised Future

November 10, 2018: Portrait of a Tax Bomb

November 3, 2018: Markets Eye Election Trigger

October 27, 2018: The Coming Depression of 2021?

October 20, 2018: What comes after ERP: LRP and PRP perhaps?

October 13, 2018: An “Ebbinghaus Model” is introduced

October 6, 2018: The Clock is runnjing out on markets. Top In?

October 3, 2018: ACNWTP: An alternative to the Graduated Income Tax

September 29, 2018: Real Secrets of Anti-Aging

September 25, 2018: America’s Third Coup Unravels…

September 19, 2018: Boring Markets, UFOs Lurk?

September 12, 2018: A Matter of Personal Security (on Passwords)

September 5, 2018: Trouble on the Eastern Front

August 29, 2018: How High is UP? We begin to wonder with record stock prices…

August 22, 2018: The Currency Elevator

August 15, 2018: Future Enters “Decision-Month”

August 8, 2018: Notes on the Art oif Making Money (AoMM)

August 1, 2018: On Vacuum Tubes and Ecosystems

July 25, 2018: Eyeballs or Math? (Golem #3)

July 18, 2018: Heartbeat of the Market found! (Golem #1)

July 11, 2018: Prepared for the Web to Go Dark?

July 4, 2018: Danger of an American Webolution

June 27, 2018: Forget Retirement – Try “Downscaling”

June 20, 2018: Rethinking Synthetic Growth (2)

June 13, 2018: Getting Rich School (#1)

June 6, 2018: The DMR and Sasquatch

May 30, 2018: Melt-up, or Melt-down? The answer soon!

May 23, 2018: Charts only due to travel this weekend.

May 15, 2018: How to building a “Light Crown” along with part sources.

May 12, 2018: If Trillions Were Thousands…

May 5, 2018: Prepping for a Lower Income, Crashington Lifestyles (2).

April 28, 2018: Will February Lows Hold?

April 21, 2018: Discussion of Charting Technique

April 14, 2018: Not Ready to Engage

April 7, 2018: BrainAmp Market Forecasting

March 31, 2018: Flee the City! Get out of the Coops!

March 24, 2018: Our “After Action Report”

March 23, 2018: AI: Sunset for Musicians

March 17, 2018: Doctoring Your Numbers and some old Fed notes.

March 11, 2018: Net Business Formations – an overlooked statistic

March 3, 2018: Let’s explore The 10-Year Delta and the Machine-Human Overlap...

February 24, 2018: Managing Retirement Time

February 17, 2018: Occam’s Updated with futures data ahead of today’s open.

February 14, 2018: A Detailed Trading Outlook

February 7, 2018: A special note on markets and outlooks.

February 3, 2018: Numerically modeling the future suggests a major top is now in

January 31, 2018: Is sales a Depression-proof career?

January 27, 2018: A couple of tripwires. Unauth’ed RFID cloning and TL C/Fs

January 20, 2018: Time to Regulate Predatory Business Models?

January 13, 2018: Who should manage your money – Trump or Buffett?

January 6, 2018: The Coming War with A.I.

December 27, 2017: The Tripwires of 2018 explores the fallout that cloud be ahead this year.

December 23, 2017: Working in the Realms – during naps

December 20, 2017: We propose a third matrix as a thinking tool we find quite useful.

December 16, 2017: Is Home Automation Worth it?

December 13, 2017: Inflation returns and we offer our Christmas letter/self-evaluation report.

December 9, 2017: Do or Die week ahead for markets and why don’t we reward Quality anymore?

December 6, 2017: A few things I didn’t mention of Coast last night (sound studies)

December 2, 2017: Crooked Thinking on the National Debt: No one talks about Debt Service (interest)!

November 29, 2017: Are Bitcoins a way for the NWO to dispense with sovereign nations?

November 25, 2017: A real-life adventure story about a “river of gold

November 22, 2017: In Trump’s Tumbler” we look at economic gains and scoring between two Presidents.

November 18, 2017: Some outlooks for the future and detailed tax talk about crypto currencies.

November 15, 2017: Why trade ahead of our own models? The Market’s about to explain our FOGOD fear

November 11, 2017: D153: The “Crazy Beam” caper outs Social Media which we link to increased mass shootings...

November 8, 2017: How Your Lifestyle has been Stolen Over Time

November 4, 2017: Weinstein and Spacey: LA Underworld house cleaning?

November 1, 2017: Electronic Thought Templates

October 28, 2017: How to Monetize ANYTHING

October 25, 2017: Is owning a robot participating in slavery?

October 21, 2017: Can the Markets Forecast a NK Strike?

October 18, 2017: Why Reagan style tax cuts can’t work for Trump

October 14, 2017: Changing How You Think plus a Bitcoin Outlook

October 11, 2017: A few notes on Survival Clothing and how options tell the future.

October 7, 2017: The Search Engine Based Books are coming

October 4, 2017: The PAYG Economy might make a return.

September 30, 2017: Nothing Left to Buy?

September 27, 2017: The Sad Decline of Shortwave Radio

Setember 23, 2017: Approaching a break-through on sonic space-time hack?

September 20, 2017: Waiting for Janetvision and worries build in retailing

September 16, 2017: Time to consider “Kim Puts?”

September 13, 2017: Bracketing All-Time Highs.

September 9. 2017: How to spend $100 on prepping.

September 6, 2017: Directorate 153 has a new plan: Operation 30.

September 2, 2017: Solar Power for Hurricane Harvey and Beyond

.August 30, 2017: Harvey’s coming impact on stocks. 5% down offers the Katrina model.

August 26, 2017: Ure stumbles on yet-another cool trading tool

August 23, 2017: What to do when a million bucks lands in your lap.

August 19. 2017: What the Fed Doesn’t Get about Interest rates. Global Index solidly negative now.

August 16, 2017: Preview of the upcoming book “Dimensions Next Door” plus the coming All-Time-Highs.

August 12, 2017: How to make a “snap decision” on a stock or index…

August 9, 2017: The World’s Most Important “Video Game” – the FRB/US DSGE computer model.August 5, 2017: The Greenspan Put and other matters.

August 2, 2017: An update on our little $29,325 Experiment shorting the market

July 29, 2017: Grid hard Down – the Urban Spillover Problem

July 26, 2017: From Tragedy to Business Model – some extensible thinking.

July 22, 2017: Do Solar Cycles drive markets longer-term?

July 19, 2017: Will AI kill financial markets?

July 15, 2017: A View from Oklahoma

July 12, 2017: What would a multifactorial crash be like?

July 8, 2017: Limits to Complexity. Complex solutions may work out, but how many of ’em can you pile on?

July 5, 2017: Software Assisted Lifestyle is discussed along with how PR writers are making up climate change.

July 1, 2017: Will AmRev2 be a replay of the English Civil Wars?

June 28, 2017: Life in the “After-Drash” – won’t be pretty

June 24, 2017: Quest for Hidden Variables – and a poker discussion.

June 21, 2017: Time for a Free Degree-granting Federal Online University…

June 17, 2017: Things Preppers Forget, part 2

June 14, 2017: Rethinking How News is Organized

June 10, 2017: Things Preppers Forget, part 1

June 7, 2017: A Biphasic Solar -Market relationship is exploored. Plus Chaos as a business model.

June 3, 2017: Setting up for the Trade of a Lifetime?

May 31, 2017: Prepped – Tuning the Bug Out Plan

May 27, 2017: Dead or Useless Part 1 – How to deal with aging, crashes and real estate

May 24, 2017: 2,885 words of caution (Why ETF’s are great…until they’re not)

May 20, 2017: Lunch Money Trading and more on micro homes

May 18, 2017: A special update on potential market outcomes following the miserable decline 5/17

May 17, 2017: A shot at the Market Top and Crash Dates this year.

May 13, 2017: A new kind of warfare is proposed: Swarm Warfare.

May 10, 2017: DRM is coming for DIY and prospects for freedom dim as a result.

May 6, 2017: Dear (Rich) Millennial… investing over time pays big

May 3, 2017: Strategic Economic Relocation: Sell now and avoid the Depression?

April 29, 2017: What comes after the Fire Department?

April 26, 2017: Here comes “RAesponsive Television…”

April 22, 2017: Business Model Threat Analysis

April 19, 2017: Investing: Step-by-step for Millennials.

April 15, 2017: Disappearing Investmenbt Options.

April 12, 2017: A Time of Capital Preservation

April 10, 2017: Come sit at my trading platform with me…

April 8, 2017: Case for the Top Being In and How D-II could roll out.

April 5, 2017: Thinking the Unthinkable: Do Fed working papers hint at our expected future?

April 1, 2017: Are Federal Reserve Rate Hikes Over? Global Index Breaks to upside.

March 29, 2017: Strategy, Tactics, Words, and Laws

March 25, 2017: The Shape-Shift in Global Energy

March 22, 2017: Pause or Panic? When to take a steely-eyed look at the data

March 18, 2017: Global Market Entrainment and Historical Resonance

March 15, 2017: Notes on Power Sources and Silver

March 11, 2017: Notes on Aggregated Markets

March 8, 2017: Trump might be right about Deep State as Wikileaks shows

March 4, 2017: From the Economists Notebook.

March 1, 2017: Topology of Market Mindsets Ahead of Fed Meetings

February 25, 2017: Should you “Dcoument” your home?

February 22, 2017: The Bubble Factor: How many times its baseline can bubbles grow?

February 18, 2017: Second Depression Master Planner.

February 15, 2017: The Approaching Mega-Top.

February 11, 2017: We size up the Global Market Topping Process and ask dark questions about our future.

February 8, 2017: Is America Insane? About a 60% chance.

February 4, 2017: Turns out there is a way to look at the Internet and conclude that Social Media has been weaponized and we have not addressed the threat.

February 1, 2017: Cobots – some thoughts on historical circularity and our mixedfintelligence fuiture

.January 28, 2017: EU-Bashing. It’s a pleasant alternative to Trump-bashing and with lots of basis in fact

.January 25, 2017: With the Trump admin. signing off on Wall bu8ilding today, we assess ideas for when the next narco-revolution takes place to our south.

January 21, 2017: Where to hide your money next: Time to reconsider inflation?

January 18, 2017: News Business Model Obsolete – Mesh Networks Compared…

January 14, 2017: The Speech Trump Should Give at Inauguration

January 11, 2017: The Six Steps of Marketing that lead to business success…

January 7, 2017: MMT: Have you been hoaxed? Modern Monetary Theory is interesting stuff, for sure.

January 4, 2017: 2017’s Econoomic Stars tdo Steer By

December 31, 2016: Optimizing the Home Audio Experience

December 28, 2016: Year-end Bonus: Our eBook on all the basics of getting rich in Sales.

December 24, 2016: The Knickerbocker Puzzle: It’s all about the Depression Everyone Forgets in 1920-21

December 21, 2016: Some new approaches to math may help the computational future problem along.

December 17, 2017: A progress report on the Light Crown Project, part 1 was our Oct. 8 issue this year.

December 14, 2016: Three Tripwires for Trump and Organization Rate of Change is one of them…

December 10, 2016: A real-lief tale of an international scam – that worked on one of our readers.

December 7, 2016: Crafting your own Personal Annual Report. Including what to do about it to make next year better.

Decembers 3, 2016: Should Robots pay income tax? Plus, the misunderstood Trump on foreign policy.

November 30, 2016: How to Filter Financial Planners. yesd, some unconventional interview ideas…

November 27, 2016: Warning Flags for Commercial Real Estate and how Retailing Revolutions Space at 25-35 years.

November 19, 2016: Stupidnomics: If Interest on the National Debt is too much, why not abolish interest?

November 16, 2015: A Grown-Up Look at Trump’s Trade and Rate Problems

November 12, 2016: How Real is the Trump Rally this week? And now long until we get to the “Short of a Lifetime?”

NB Report says 11/9 on it but it is the 12th report

November 9, 2016: Election Aftermath and how a Simple Trump Trade Made Us Richer.

November 5, 2016: Is there a link between government continuation, immigration and a new category of age-targeting bioweapons?

November 2, 2016: Inside the mind of a small investor on a high pressure trading day.

October 29,2016: Broken Web II – DFid the US just turn on Hillary to prevent a massive cyber

war?

October 26, 2016: Care Wreck: How we get a recession in 2017

October 22, 2016: Ripcord: Answer Two of the Toughest Questions of Retirement: When and Where.

October 19, 2016: Scenarios: Election-Day Seismic War

October 15, 2016: Welcome to the strange New World of Multi-core Economics.

October 12, 2016: Devil’s in the Triangles as we sort through which technical trend will rule.

October 8, 2016: The Light Crown Project – adventures in photobiomodulation.

October 4, 2016: Solving for X is Solving for $ – a trading check of market directionals

October 1, 2016: We consider building a Disaster Room in order to have just one more optin against disaster….

September 28, 2016: Losing our past, dooming our future. And no, loading the debt onto the kids is a very, very bad idea.

Sep[tember 24, 2016: Reality Ratio IV is here – and it looks like an October Market Flop is coming…

September 21, 2016: Leading Edge of Chaos: Are we in the appetizer or soup course?

September 17, 2015: A Periodic Systems Check to see what changes are coming to life in the rat race…

September 14, 2016: HR for your SHTF Plan – and Lazarus Lines on charts for Hil.

September 10, 2016: Bloody Monday? We aren’t going to panic about it…

September 7, 2016: Trump’s one chance tdo Thread-the-Needle on trade and the soaring Debt.

September 3, 2016: Labor Day – and humans have arguably lost the battle to remain in control of machines.

August 31, 2016: Fadinjg Prospects for Phamacists – You talk about an industry that could be upscale and hurt by automationo…

August 27, 2016: Turn on a War: Rally the Sheep. Think it can’t happen?

August 24, 2016: Looking ahead to the coming Global Bail-in and how your savings will be seized.

August 20, 2016: Monetizing Your Butt. Yes, 8-biillion people will make up crazy new tdrends.

August 17, 2016: Presidential Election Lesson: The “winner” may look forward to a rotten first year says our work.

August 13, 2016: Prepping is good and all, advises Capt. Midnight, but are you working the right threat?

August 10, 2016: Getting out the Crystal Ball and looking ahead – a rally continuation seems assured.

August 6, 2016: We venture into the Shaman’s Lake and see if there might be something to the process of dream-tuning.

August 3, 2016: Some Mighty Serious Defense Questions.

July 30, 2016: A word from the Future wherein we look at the future as being a computational problem and a space inhabited by some far-out views

July 27, 2016: While a Fed move is unlikely, we like to play “Out-guess the Fed” so let’s take a crack at it…

July 23, 2016: How to use the brainamp.xls spreadsheet to make an intelligent guess that the market will pull back over the coming week, or three…

July 20, 2016: Did Kondratiev get it Wrong? We look at some evidence for an 80.5 year economic cycle instead of the 54 years of the K-Wave.

July 16, 2016: Off on our Annual Economic Expedition. The why and the how of it.

July 13, 2016: How I’ve Predicted this Blow-off Rally Since January

July 9, 2016: The “War on Cheap Living” is not so overt, but the chilling effect on people wanting to live “off the grid” is quite apparent…

July 6, 2016: Do the Gold Bugs have it wrong? Has anyone besides me taken the time to plug in what $20K gold would do on an ounces of gold basis to the necessities of life?

July 2, 2016: Enhanced learning from stock market mistakes. Yeah, I make ’em too…

June 29, 2016: Did Germany just win WW II with the Brits exit as a stablilizing force in the EU?

June 25, 2016: BREXIT and the Markets: So This UFO Lands…

June 24, 2016: A few notes and ideas on “Disciplined Trading” which paid off well for us this week.

June 22, 2016: We consider an interesting to one of America’s major structural issues not considered by the Founders: How to keep non producers from allocating all wealth to themselves…

June 18, 2016: How we live on Social Security (Pt1) in which we delve into the importance of having your home paid off in a low property tax area.

June 15, 2016: This being Fed decision day, we will focus on how to play the market – and some concepts to consider when the decision is announced.

June 11, 2016: Bezos and Bentonville: Barbarians at the Mall: These people are turning every phone into a cash register with 2-day shipping and outfiles like Federated Department stores should be worried as hell.

June 8, 2016: My Wife – the Investor. In which we take a perfectly innocent, nice human being and turn her into a profit-making money machine…Part 1 of many.

June 4, 2016: Why America’s Millenials are not playing the market in larger numbers is a mystery to me. Bujt here are 5 good reasons to jump in.

June 1, 2016: With eye suyrgery #3 Tuesday, we remain as focused as possible on the charts ahead of tomorrow’s ECB and the Fed meeting later this month.

May 29, 2016: Well, what has the past 8 years under Obama really brought in the way of economic returns? We take a stab at that…

May 25, 2016: Scaling the Summe4r Rally – what could be ahead…

May 21, 2015: A Note to the Kids on how to Grow Rich – Slowly. Including five rules that if followed, will almost guarantee success.

May 18, 2016: Just the charts and market view today due to power problems…

May 14, 2016: Let’s be paranoid for a minute. Suppose the whole climate thing is a conspiracy.

May 11, 2016: In our Secod Depression Handbook series, we consider how illiquid many investments could be when the crap starts to fly

May 7, 2016: Sick of politics? Well, there may be some useful financial planning tips in with all the political nonsense.

May 4, 2016: The Only Options Left – We Lurch toward a Pension Crash

April 30, 2016: Is there now something called Synthetic Growth of the Economy?

April 27. 2016: As we stand by for the Fed decision this afternoon, we pause to consider the personality of various declining waves in the market and hold up some prospects.

April 23, 2016″ Are Federal Reserve rate announcements a “tradable event” for us working stiffs?

April 20, 2016: The Time Dimension of Investing. We went looking and came up with a conflict/showdown between sharia and interest-based economic systems.

April 16, 2016: A very important week ahead for markets as dueling trend lines are about to do battle.

April 13, 2016: A Course in Moneymaking (1): Can good investing be “taught?” Maybe it starts with a Book of Truth.

April 9, 2016: Investing Your Savings with IRS? I know it’s an odd thought, but have you checked bank rates lately? Overpaying may make a weird kind of sense…

April 6, 2016: Something odd is going on in military circles – and there is a lot of attention being paid to celestial events and protection of Earth.

April 2, 2016: Unfortunately, prospects of a renewal of hostilities on the Korean Penninsula seem ready to increase – and one of the drivers is economics of the West.

March 30, 2016: Regional Entrainment of Global Markets. Do trading blocks perform as a group?

March 26, 2016: Second Depression Handbook on Environmental considerations to be prepared for.

March 23, 2016: The Junior Economist Merit Badge, also called the steely-eyed realist who thinks the world isn’t ending yet badge

March 19, 2016: Is there a second “civil” war in the cards? Economic concentration of power may hint that way. And then we get into the problem of when to tell Donald Trump how much “computational policy support” he will have jammed down his throat if he wins..

March 16, 2016: Some interesting notes about society come to reveal themselves when we zoom in on some ultra long timescale data about workweeks…

March 12, 2016: Does Technology Lead to Socialism? It’s an intriguing concept to consider.

March 9, 2016: People who buy cars are idiots. Oh, not for taking in the low rates and such, but for missing that in the macro picture, cars may be heading for utility status…

March 5, 2016: From our Directorate 153 discussions, we look at the problem of unbounded disruptive technologies. Would a breakthrough in someting like anti-gravity research be able to “take down the world?”

March 2, 2016: We add a bit to the Food section of our Second Depression Handbook and then touch on Transportation.

February 27, 2016: A little “brain amplifier” that you might find useful – it is on this week’s spreadsheet along with how to clone our Aggregate Index of the US markets if you need more frequent updates than twice weekly.

February 24, 2016: Classified Fiction: Ever come up with a dandy way to hold the whole world hostage? Well, if you do, you might want to sit on it for a dozen years, or so, before mentioning the concept publicly…

February 20, 2016: Staying Fed in the Second Depression is Chapter 5 ofs our Second Depression Handbook.

February 17, 2016: Chapter 4 of our Second Depression Handbook asks the intriguing question: With historical precedents in play, will gold and silver be conficated again?

February 13, 2016: We look at the role of intuition in investing and offer a crazy DYI experiment to try at your next casino visit or investment picking session…

February 10, 2016: Second Depression Handbook (Chapter 3) How to work the Housing problem if a Depression hits, and do you want to bail on a house now to buy a lot more house on the cheap later?

February 6, 2016: The Second Depression Handbook (Chapter 2 and discussion) Also a few quake notes.

February 3, 2016: Waiting for Markets to Decide.

January 30, 2016: Peoplenomics: Second Depression Handbook (Chapter 1 and discussion)

January 27, 2016: Seven for Success: A collection of recipes to turn around companies that also works when comes to cleaning out the garage while being something robots aren’t able to do yet

.January 23, 2016: Another Visit to the Threat Board. Our Oscillator is still showing cash/short, but could the bottom be in? Trade and transport data is hinting that direction.

January 20, 2016: It’s time you work out a “1,740 Plan.” Things could get really bad, really quick if we penetrate that level.

January 16, 2015: We look at prospects for a bottom wash-out next week and a word about Wal-Mart’s failure to communicate as a cause of store closings

.January 13. 2016: How Bankers have a new plan to “water down money” on command in order to save (their/the) World. With friends like this, who needs…

January 9, 2016: The Nine Horsemen of 2017..

.January 6, 2016: A Few Words about Doomporn as opposed to historically-based economic perspective.

January 2, 2016: Making Up Growth: Since at least 2007, the banker class has been planning “permanent migrations” from poor countries to rich…

December 30, 2015: Two Migrations will cross in 2016 – and I think the result will be the implosion of Euro and a flight to safety in the US just in time for our collapse..

.December 26, 2015: Scoring 2015: We got a lot right and our Trading Model absolutely rocked. Not only that, but the outlook for 2016 is bright, too.

December 23, 2015: A look at some trading targets for coming months based on our odd way of looking at markets.

December 19, 2015: BPR the Government! Some further thoughts on a familiar business process theme.

December 16, 2015: 7-Billion Ants and One Gorilla – what to do while waiting for the Fed…

December 12, 2015: Functions of War (Iron Mountain, II) in which we look ahead at what to expect as we fulfill some very interesting future-think.

December 9, 2015: Terrible Tactical Trouble: The market is at a critical inflection point. So is the founding paradigm of America.

December 5, 2015: Holiday Planning? Set some time aside for “family futuring” and picking other people’s brains for good investment ideas.

December 2, 2015: The Annual Personal Financial Review: Now is the time to make a profit plan for 2016!

November 28, 2015: Functions of War: Iron Mountain, II (part 1)

November 25, 2015: Trouble – as in Turkey

.November 21, 2015: A Traveler’s Prepping School and Iron Mountain 2 (introduction)

November 18, 2015: Slots, Life-Loops, and Investments.

November 14, 2015: France: Did Someone know in advance? If so, the coming week could be instructive in a forensic accounting sense.

November 11, 2015: Should Robots Pay Income Tax? Another one of those Ure-like questions that seems important to bed asking before authomous machines take over…

November 7, 2015: Is it time to Prep for War With Robotics? They are coming to enforce laws, kill on command, so maybe its time to think defense while we can

November 4, 2015: How we plan to use eBay as a Depression hedge. It’s all about timing.

October 31, 2015: In the “Scariest Halloween Ever” we look at some research that may be driving NASA and the US military to rethink the odds of a comet or asteroid impact in Earth’s future.

October 28, 2015: We ask if we are (the whole World) ion an Information Bubble economy?

October 24, 2015: Date Math: How long until a Global Crash and other economic ponderings.

October 21, 2015: How is the economy doing – Really? We look to three indicators for guidance.

October 17, 2015: Three things preppers tend to forget about – at least I did...

Octobrer 14, 2015: Sizing up the Feedlot Economy – plus we look at the “Clinton media fix”” as the post debate polls seem to show Sanders won.

October 10, 2015: Going past Prepping: What the heck is an “Arrival Protocol?”

October 7, 2015: Assessing the Future of Bitcoin: Which sure looks to us like the reincarnation of Trading Stamps

October 3, 2015: With a stellar performance of our preditive work, we do a happy dance and rethink retirement.

September 30, 2015: Just how similar are Wave 2s and 4s in the current market situation?

September 26, 2015: Q4 OL2: Lurching Toward Five & The Tech Vex

September 23, 2015: A Q4 Outlook (market bottom in Dec. looks likely) and we hold chart school. Part 1 of 2.

September 19, 2015: Can we lose the Great Lakes? We look at nuclear water and fresh water concerns…

September 16, 2015: Where to Make Your Stand: When the crappola hits the fan, where are you going to be? Plus, I’m disappointed in the Ferguson Report.

September 12, 2015: Fed Tactics, and Forward

September 9, 2015: Schmita and a lesson in Backtesting

.September 5, 2015: Two Weeks to Rally? We consider the market’s technical picture for the period ahead.

September 2, 2015: Depression Prepping Notebook. We begin to clip ideas for how to cope with a Biggest in History crash.

August 29, 2015: The 45-day technical picture looks at what to expect come mid September.

August 26, 2015: You better hope the market stops at the lower trend channel line or we might be facing a future Retirement Crash.

August 23, 2015: A couple of oddities cropped up on our Options Radar this week and they might mean something

August 22, 2015: A Long Wave Review of this week’s market decline.

August 19, 2015: Dirt: “Day Information Residue” Trading impacts. The calm mind makes better trades, we suspect.

August 15, 2015: A Purely Technical Discussion of how it is the global index is flashing major warning signs.

August 12, 2015: The Best and Worst Investments in Life – and how they are oddly the same things. Plus our model is very negative on China devaluation moves.

August 8, 2015: It may seem a bit Machiavellian how the economy really works sometimes: A topic explored a bit in “Suppose We Had a King”

August 5, 2015: The Death of Accountancy wherein we discuss how computers are coming to get the accountants, too, and accounting embeds in ERP

August 1, 2015: Thanksgiving Flash-Bang looks at how world events and markets may be setting up for a very high stress November this year.

July 29, 2015: Turns out the Velocity of Money has never been this bad before and that may be an under-rated pressure on the Fed to raise rates.

July 25, 2015: Quest for The Signal – is there a motherload of profits just waiting for someone to find the right key?

July 22, 2015: Designing a Perfect Retirerment Home – yes, it can be done on a budgetm as we are finding out.

July 18, 2015: Where Are the Good Guys? The problem is every moneysaving idea has job loss conequences…and we look at our Trading Model…

July 15, 2015: How We Do It – living cheap in retirement. Plus the sordid background of the Iran deal and a few pertinent points that other people miss.

July 11, 2015: Hacktopolypse: The Processors Per Person Problem

July 8, 2015: The Digital Diaspora is on – and here’s how the economics of it echo some of the same aspects as the 1930’s Great Depression ramp-in..

.July 4, 2015: Some first-hand credit card fraud experience and what it means to you. There goes the vacation…

July 1, 2015: A reply to Deagel – a military affairs and hardware site that suggests an 80% population reduction in the US by 2025

June 27, 2015: Wahalaylia and Mindmaps – we peer again into the future.

June 24, 2015: Assembling a Map of the Next 10 Years. We can’t go anywhere without a map, right?

June 20, 2015: The bubble that kills us all..

.June 17, 2015: RoboShock: The Future isn’t what you Think: Even the high end jobs will be lost…

June 13, 2015: They’ll be back. TPP ain’t over as long as there’s a corporation with a fat lobbying budget…(and a croooked politician out to take it!)

June 10, 2015: Will raising the MinWager to $15 bucks help anything?

June 6, 2015: Selling Us Down the River: Saturated Consumers & the TPA/TPP

June 3, 2015: Templates, Boundaries, and Logical Limits. Wherein we consider whether the Housing Crash of 2008/2009 actually accomplished the role of normal bubble endings.

May 31, 2015: Peoplenomics Sept. 6 Cruise Details!

May 30, 2015: 10-years after. Are some of the views we held out for subscribers 10-years back still valid? Surprisingly, the outlook still fits like a glove.

May 26, 2015: Is the Internet starting to wreck conventional infrastructure for things like Travel and Hotels? Early in the data, but with video conferencing, we just couldn’t help but ask…

May 23, 2015: How to turn your hobbies into cash. In which we develop a method to sniff out opportunities to get you lots of fun at a discount…

May 20, 2015t: The Terrorism that Worries Me: Tinder dray forests in the West and a chance that government will use Waco to further restrict personal movement.

May 16, 2015: A Pretty Good “Get Rich” Scheme discusses high betas and relative pricing concepts.

May 13, 2015: Is this What We’re Prepping For? 1999 FN53 and other heavenly prepper delights.

May 9, 2015: An intyroduction to Stock Screening so you can make oodles and gobs of money. (In this market???)

May 6, 2015: Prepper Deluxe: Time to Get a Chaching Property? And we eye a Peoplenomics Cruise for late summer.

May 2, 2015: We look at an alternative future where everyone is taken aback by a huge run-up in stocks – and how to make money if that happens…

April 29, 2015: In The Economic of Anarchy, we apply some concepts of behavioral economics and see how local kids have the same kinds of economic problems that whole countries do – and they’re pretty ugly ones, too…

April 25, 2015: War on Cash – a TGhreat Matrix. Plus we look at the relationship between present times and the summer of 1927

April 22, 2015: The Ultimate Prepper’s Low Power Stereo FM Station for the End of the World.

April 18, 2015: A Disruptive Technology Primer. Or, “Let’s wreck the world and call it progress and science, shall we? The case for Technology Impact Statements is clear.

April 15, 2015: We look at the virtualization of desire and how there will shortly be a “melt” of virtual worlds into the physical one.

April 11, 2015: Prepping for a Nuclear Nightmare. It won’t be the rads that get you: It will be the prepping or people.

April 8, 2015: We look at the possibility of a massive overnight in-migration to the US as drought pressure is building in Mexico and Central America.

April 4, 2015: A few observations on economics and the world situation on a reflective Easter weekend…

April 1, 2015: Should You Build a Home Intelligence Platform? Anmd more importantly, should you use it for Trading?

March 28, 2015: What is the Data Telling Us? We focus on the charts and wonder “What’s that on the highway up ahead?”

March 25, 2015: Can the Recovery Recover? A couple of key indicators – port activity and rail traffic – are flashing warning signals that the recovery phase of economic growth may be over. Oil rig laydowns count, too.

March 21, 2015: The Grand Canals of Earth and Mars whered we talk about two proposals to save California from the drought.

March 18, 2015: Forecasting the Coming Collapse of the European Currency: It’s much deeper than the demonstrations against the ECB Tower in Frankfurt today.

March 14, 2015: Homesteading and Retirement Tax Angles: So you can live anywhere you want…why not go shopping for the best possible deal?

March 11, 2015: Algorithmic programming in America – what lessons of the 1970’s radio wars can teach us in a a world of dueling media today.

March 7, 2015: Personal Energy Return On Energy Invested (PEROEI) is a useful way to consider many decisions in life.

March 4, 2015: Grab and go bags updated and the addition of the Grab and Go Chip as a just in case bug-out plan.

March 1, 2015: What Would You Do If You Won the Lottery? Putting money in good places is getting harder and harder to do.

February 25, 2015: The Chart Neither Party Talks About. Why? It gives away the real position of the Long Wave in Economics, among other things.

February 21, 2015: The world’s oldest prepping manual? Yes, a piece of 2,000 year old poetry is a cross between prepping and the Old Farmers Almanac

February 18, 2015: Is Fame a New Kind of Money? Where we look at one of life’s odder commoditization phenomena.

February 14, 2015: Compunism: How it’s killing the music industry and changing the audible future.

February 11, 2015: A Look at Compunism from 1700 to Present takes us along the path from statistics being born as a science, to robo-dogs that will be armed to kill humans, to televisions that are recording what you say and are sending it to third parties without many people being aware of the practice.

February 7, 2015: Move over democrats and republicans. The Compunist Revolution is almost over and we’ve all lost something of inestimable value.

February 4, 2015: Quest for the Hidden Coach: Has congress suddenly gotten smart, lucky, or is something else going on? Like a hidden “coach?”

January 31, 2015: How to discover a retrocausality-based trading model. And some “dream” speculation about tomorrow’s Big Game.

January 28, 2015: Some Real World problems of large solar systems – and a few thoughts on why the Internet may have led much of the world into a grieving state…

January 24, 2015: Attention Worrywarts: Exter Lunacy. No, simplistic economic explanations don’t work in hypercomplexity, sorry.

January 20, 2015: Economic Lessons from the Sports Book: A novel thought emerges: Can we build a trading model using the same techniques as horse handicappers?

January 17, 2015: Updating the Threat Board

January 14, 2015: The Threat Nobody Talks About. Is an earth-crossing comet debris field more likely in Earth’s future than we have previously considered?

January 10, 2015: We consider the Complexity Problem – and one we start to answer simple questions with complex answers, do we start a most dangerous addiction?

January 7, 2014: We consider the triple whammy facing oil this week – not the least of which are emergent auto competitors that don’t run on gasolines…

January 3, 2015: Cash and Equivalents – if the world hits the skids, do you have the necessities of life and comfort lined up and ready?

December 31, 2014: Modeling 2015 Part 2: Is this really mid-1927? Well, yes, it might be, so let’s look at that…

December 27, 2014: Modeling 2015, Part 1: Yes, there are reasons piling up why we consider this to be the modern analog to the Roaring Twenties.

December 24, 2014: Surveying the Road to Riches for 2015

December 20, 2014: Broken Web II: the Arrival of Digital Anarchy. Think Sony’s hack is interesting? Tip of the iceberg and hint of the future, I’m afraid.

December 17, 2014: PCP: Penciling Crash Possibilities

December 13, 2014: Crash, Blow-Off, or Breakthrough in 2015: Well, how about all three?

December 10, 2014: The Conundrum of Sports Economics: Like banks, it’s getting too big to fail and with special breaks for team owners….

December 6, 2014: Can the US Population be Controlled? And if so, how might it be done?

Decemberr 3, 2014: Boats as Bug-Out Platforms.

November 29, 2014: The Great American Crime Business: Have you ever wondered if America can afford to be “crime-free?” Well, we can’t and here’s why…

Novemberr 26, 2014: What happened to George Jetson’s space car? Is personal flight still coming?

November 22, 2014: Is there an “Invention Horizon” beyond which we need a new breakthrough technology or what we have up till now becomes fully exploited and growth ends?

November 19, 2014: Slow war for control of Global Government has our attention this morning.

November 15, 2014: Three items: A look at energy problems as oil prices collapse, timing the arrival of The End of globalism, and some discussion of how to protect a technology that gives some insights into the future.

November 12, 2014: Time to look at Directorate 153 again as we search for how the Little Guys will be bent over next.

November 8, 2014: A Marevelous New book by Howard Hill is discussed along with a look forward to the End of Prepping?

November 5, 2014: “Mysteries of the Amazon” where we take apart Amazon.com’s star rankings and come up with our own customer satisfaction spreadsheet as an alternative purchasing tool.

November 1, 2014: Covert Radio School: We refocus on the right tools to prep with for communications issues.

October 29, 2014: If America Ran Like a Business – would we be making the same policy choices? I doubt it…

October 25, 2014: It’s time to look at the likely return of the Depression-Era “FixIt” shop.

October 22, 2014: Where to invest in a Negative Growth economy is a perplexing problem if you’re trying to build a fortune in these difficult times.

October 18, 2014: Markets held level during options week, but the coming week shapes up sketchy as we look at how demographics are not looking good for sustained recovery

October 15, 2014: Hiding Reality with Real Numbers. Wherein we inspect the impacts of index membership change on treasding expectations.

October 11, 2014: Mr. Cheerful’s End of All Economic Growth. Where we attack the difference between risk and ambiguity.

October 9, 2014: A Trading Note

October 8, 2014: It’s beginning to look like Ebolanomics may be the straw that breaks this economy’s back, after all.

October 4, 2014: Staying ahead of the Prepperdemic as people may turn into hoarders at any moment in response to Ebola being Dallas. Here’s a list of personal actions.

October 1, 2014: Texas Ebola & the Threat Board: A through K Score a big hit for the Dream Center.

September 27, 2014: We look into a new growth industry: The repackaging of existing information by a “Comprehension Industry.”

September 24, 2014: We focus on a particularly difficult market period and go to cash as a precaution against possible market declines ahead.

September 20, 2014: The Computational Bolsheviks wonders if all these app writers might be laying the foundation to replacement traditional corporations and stomring the gates ofx the PTB?

September 17, 2014: Horsemen and Kindling Effects looks at the possibility that, among other things, attacking the US with EMP devices might be seen as a humanitarian act to end global air travel…

September 13, 2014: A course in relative values takes us on a fictional adventure in a transporter to learn a bit about how where you are determines the kinds of eventualities to include in whatever your prepping plans are..

.September 10, 2014: Whether you’re young, or old, and thinking about a long-distance move, this week’s look at some of the data points is worth a look.

Septrember 6, 2014: A new approach to stratgegic investment gets our noses out of strictly financials and looks at some alternative methods of deciding who to invest in… patents per dollar of market cap and the like.

September 3, 2014: Comments on Joseph Stiglitz remarks on how tax reformmight be able to save the Middle Class. I’m not so sure…and I’ll tell you why.

August 30, 2014: Economic Implications of Extended Electronic ‘Families: In which we posit that broken homes from the soaring divorce rate of past years may, in fact, be responsible fosr the national fixation on texting and tweets.

August 27, 2014: A Team Approach to Job-Hunting.

August 23, 2014: Will the next Big Thing be authorpreneurship? Is a revolution coming in “authoring” companies?

August 20, 2014: Revisiting the “Deathidemic” – can the techniques and approaches of medicine help us come to a better understanding of socioeconomics?

August 16, 2014: A free gift from JB Slear of Fort Wealth Trading (and me) – the MyGroPonics 3 PDF.

August 13, 2014: So, Ure on Vacation, are you? Some notes on latter day travel planning in the age of computerized “help.”

August 9, 2014: Inflation Data: How Real are Government figures?

August 6, 2014: Mathematics of Disaster: We look at Ebola and some past Peoplenomics reports on disease as an economic solution no one wants to talk about…

August 2, 2014: A basic short course in electronics so you may actually be able to fix something instead of throwing it away…

July 30, 2014: If there’s a global attack on the Internet, are you ready with a toolkit to deal with it and find options?

July 26, 2014: A strange gap in housing data, but we look at home prices have fared in recent market meltdowns.

July 23, 2014: We toss a dart using past Fed discount rate moves and come up with a potential crash date: Fall of 2016 based on a unique timer and current headlines.

July 19, 2014: The biggest discovery of our lifetimes? Scientists reportg a direct-conversion bacteria that “eats energy” and the implications are staggering…

July 16, 2014: What can we see about longwave econ my messing about with an oscilloscope? Plenty.

July 12, 2014: We look at the future of computational wealth creation and wonder about something called “The Verne Cycle…”

July 9, 2014: The current immigration disaster along the Mexico border has been in planning since Ronald Reagan times and was then known as Border XXI – as it rolls out now.

July 5, 2014: R.I.P Part 2…the $25 per month retirement improvement plan…

July 2, 2014: R.I.P – The $25 a month Retirement Improvement Program – part 1.

June 28, 2014: Ever diddle around with your personal financial statement and see how it would fare under a 30% or hyperinflation regimen?

June 25, 2014: We wonder if the Internet has the potential to obsolete many of the current practices of government as we explore the notion of a “datamocracy…”

June 21, 2014: We look at how the price of precious metals may be getting ready to pop and there’s a discussion of picking between various alternative energy sources…

June 18, 2014: In first things: Mapping the Global Caliphate and as our Focus piece: Future-projecting on how the rollout of driverless cars will come along.

June 14, 2014: An ultra-long-term view of markets. Seriously up, then seriously bad.

June 11, 2014: What business process mapping says about Immigration

.June 7, 2014: The Roaring 20’s Replay is about to get underway, suggests our latest work. A doubling of the Dow in the next year and a half? It’s possible!

June 4, 2014: What’ll Be Left Standing?(I): OK, so when the Crash comes, what will be the sectors to pile money into and what will be worth avoiding?

May 31, 2014: Socioeconomic Revolution, part 2 where we look at India and wonder how long 1.237 billion people will play nice under increasing social and religious pressure?

May 28, 2014: A broad view of socioeconomic revolution focuses on the role of technological change and how slowly it becomes fully integrated into modern society.

May 26, 2014: A few Memorial Day notes and the question of whether we’re getting our monies worth.

May 24, 2014: Fine Line for Preppers: When does the act5 of preparing for an uncertain future shade over and becoming hoarding? Now that hoarding is in the DSM V will prepping follow?

May 21, 2014: The Hidden World Changer: DSGE models are becoming more and more widespread. Will their linkage result in a new Dark Ages or humans?

May 17, 2014: A course in Financial Prepping – the Finale. Complete with a PowerPoint, a plan for what to put assets into given an uncertain future. Takes about 3-hours to do.

May 14, 2014: A Course in Financial Prepping (Pt. 1) Gold is nice and all, but don’t get too excited about it, just yet.

May 10, 2014: Is the world going to end July 1? No, but there will be some impacts on well-heeled ExPats from new banking regs. But End of World? Ha!

May 7, 2014: Notes on the ongoing attack of personal cash. And jitters about carriers are building in data sets

May 3, 2014: Freed Observers and charts served this morning after “server eats report.”

April 30, 2014: Notes on timewave Zero, another nail in the Constution’s coffin, and let’s print more money and blow the markets to the moon.

April 26, 2014 Strategic Living Deal Points and the Wait for War. Net Neutrality to stop out alt.gov from arising and controlling the people…

April 22, 2014: What Ever Happened to Peak Oil? Hint: It’s still here…

April 19, 2014: Is Putin Threatening OPEC? When we look at the data, seems the Russia moves of late are designed to give Russia a bigger role as a global energy broker..

.April 16: Where next for Gold? A lesson in how Ures truly looks at charts and tries to see the future.

April 12, 2014: the Holy Grail of Investment: A new book gives us a useful new way to think about markets and where to go to avoid as much HFT influences perhaps.

April 9, 2014 Let’s talk about non-work – and how to develop a fine business sense while going fishing.

April 5, 2014: Beyond the Will: A To-Do List item about writing a “dead letter” to ease the work of passing

April 2, 2014: The Future in Three Charts and a Quake Prediction Hit. 8.2 in chile, and the mechanics of a blow off top are explored

.March 29, 2014: In FutureCrock, we look at how modular manufacturing and ERP systems are going to rip us a new one.

March 26, 2014: Rethinking real estate, Q2 & Beyond. With inflation on a sabbatical, we have to be somewhat bearish on real estate prospects, until inflation makes a return in a year or three…

March 22, 2014: That New Kind of Thinking: We consider algorithmic thinking and how it is impacting society, finance and how it will shape the future.

March 19, 2014: Talking Points: If you can’t stay up for my radio interview tonight, here are some talking points and things to think about on the 15-year Problem.

March 15, 2014: Notes on Psycho-Econometric Modeling, Bill Gates sees our job-room problem, and is a big decline just ahead between not and July 1?

March 12, 2013: The 15-Year Problem: We outline the process to envision the world of 15 years into the future and then making investments that will likely be high payoff winners in that world.

March 8, 2014: Casino lessons on investment.

March 5, 2014: Gambling, Economics, and Fact-based Living are on the menu for discussion this morning…

March 1, 2014: Life Beyond ERP. If there really is a Star Trek economy in our future, keep an eye on the evolution of ERP (and the death of commercial real estate to come)

February 26: Beyond Bitcoining: Transition to a Star Trek economy? Are we seeing another shift in how people earn “money?”

February 22, 2014: Ukraine’s Economic Future – and what it tells us about the modus operandi of the European Union – a less that could be very important.

February 19, 2014: In which we explore the economic links with civil wars like the ones threatening in Syria and Ukraine.

February 15, 2014: Why you should have a $500
idea fund in your back pocket

February 12, 2014: The 1342-1345 Problem. Is there a “100-Years War” coming down the road for us?

February 8, 2014: Social Security: Why I am retiring early and why you need to run a bunch of numbers before you “gray out.”

February 5, 2014: The Enterprise and the MMR problem looks at the story of Marcos gold, the subprime crisis and wonders what’s really driving the powers at the top…

February 1, 2014: Has the Long Wave in economics been defeated? No, but don’t tell the Fed yet…

January 29, 2014: We discuss some of the methodology behind our approach to economic “futuring” using the Nostracodeus software. Plus, we dissect Vlad Putin’s “Gentlemen’s War” with the EU which is trying to annex Ukraine

.January 28, 2014: A note about the S&P Housing numbers

January 25, 2014: Odds of a Black Monday to come as Hard Times Economics shows up in some data.

January 24, 2014: A final hour market observationJ

anuary 22, 2014: Davos: Danger and Devolution looking at how span of control is the real enemy and concentrationa of power is the outward symptom

January 18, 2014: In “Trending Out the Future” we look for hints of what’s to come in port data on imports and exports and what housing looks like to young people.

January 15, 2014: Do we really need government? With new technologies, it may be possible to apply some business process re-egineering to many parts of government and actually manage the country differently.

January 11, 2014: California Drought looms at at the same time the federal government has picked a damn-strange time to get concerned about frogs…

January 8, 2014: We introduce a new concept in crime fighting: Hooking up video capable smart phones in a concept we call V-1-1...

January 4, 2014: The UGLY Gold Question: Is it time to buy, hold, or sell? Notes on chart-reading may helpJ

anuary 1, 2014: Who will have Jobs in 2022? Here come the robots – and with here come mass layoffs…

December 28, 2013: Taxing thoughts: Fighting the Wrong War. In which we look at the anti-human aspects of getting over 70% of government revenues off human income streams

December 25, 2013: Tax Robtics, Unwrapping the Future.

December 21, 2013: Seven Ways to Beat the Bank. Getting your head into voluntary deconsumption.

December 18, 2013: As we look ahead, we’re troubled by the increasing number of “time-circular” business plans emergent in social media

.December 14, 2013: Part 3 of our Annual Forecast and in it a surprising idea for America to roll out a new virtual currency to solve all of our financial woes in one, fell, swoop

.December 11, 2013: Peoplenomics Annual Forecast (Pt. 2) Housing, Food, and Communications outlook

sDecember 7, 2013: Peoplenomics Annual Forecast edition, part one.

The General overviewDecember 4, 2013: Scoring our Trading Model. Even though it has been a good year for markets, it’s been an even better year for our Aggregate Index model.

November 30, 2013: Really want to stop crime? Well, how about marrying up video to police 9-1-1 centers (V-1-1) and using facial recognition and snapping cell data off towers to see which perps were there?

November 27, 2013: War Clouds with China? As the Iran deal looks like it’s in mid blow-up, the US needs to do some soul-searching regarding conflict with China…

November 23, 2013: A Gathering of Trends outlines some of the macro issues facing us as we prepare the 2014 forecast issue in December. Also, Mr. Dough-gone.

November 16, 2013: Part 2 of SuperCountry – where we posit a couple of more ideas on how to restore America’s leadership in the world.

November 13, 2013: In “Shopping List for a SuperCountry” we explore some easy policy changes which might restore American greatness. (Part 1)November 9, 2013: How a US Bail-In Might Work explores some of the legal basis for making US depositors suffer the consequences of lost savings due to poor gambling habits of the bankster class.

November 6, 2013: Where to Invest? Well, in the housing sector, minihomes are looking more interesting because of a confluence of trends (money, LBGT, labor participation rates, etc…)

November 2, 2013: To Bug In, Or to Bug Out- it’s time to look at our “threat list” and see if our current prepper posture is right for what’s out there in sight right now.

October 30, 2013: If a Million Bucks Drops on Your Head…what to do with unexpected money

.October 26, 2013: 2 Days in Branson: Some surprising things to look at in the charts

.October 23, 2013: How to turn your home shop into a business is something we think about from time to time now that the weather is cooler. A kind of front-line economic defense you might consider…

October 19, 2013: Where to from here? Sounds like a reasonable question given the debt ceiling is gone and congress and the rest of government is back to work – like that’s supposed to be comforting, right?

October 16, 2013: Simple Questions, Hard Answers. What do I tell a college kid who asks “What are you prepping for?”

October 12, 2013: The Solution No One Talks About to all our economic woes is becoming technologically possible: It’s called demographically selective pandemic disease…

October 9, 2013: Yellen the new FedHead, but many lessons from thinking through Kohn’s perspective are offered.

October 5, 2013: ChartPack and more – including speculation that Donald Kohn will be the “surprise” next Fed Boss…

October 4, 2013: A special report on an unusual trading position I’ve just taken because of what could be a high-risk week ahead…

October 2, 2013: Trading through the shut down.

September 28, 2013: Want a “transparency lesson”? We speculate what a government economic report would really be like if it were tasked with informing the general public about the real economic condition of America rather than conditioning and manipulating public opinion.

September 25, 2013: Chicago: A “Soft Path” into Martial Law?

September 21, 2013: Once again, weather events have us wondering if global cooling isn’t an idea whose time is quickly passing?

September 18, 2013: “The Method School” of Economics asks a really key question: “What’s my motivation here?”

September 14, 2013: “Living through the turn” looks at some of the generational issues and suggests some different ways of planning what’s to come.

September 11, 2013: We look at the topic of “wearable wealth” gloat a bit on our trading model’s latest hit, and wonder about application of the Fine-structure Constant as it relates to predicting the future.

September 7, 2013: With the House vote ahead, we ponder the most difficult market decision of the year.

September 4, 2013: We look at end of days fears in the Middle East and confront some biblical realities…

August 31, 2013: The End of Labor Days and it’s Time to Tax Machines.
August 28, 2013: False Flag Evidence in Web Archives and a Family Feud on Peak Oil.
August 24, 2013: In Eerie Echose of the 1930’s we explore the death of cities back then and cities more contemporary.
August 21, 2013: Murder Rooms and The Slow Death of Bonds…cheery stuff, huh?
August 17, 2013: Low cost prepping for a troubling Fall looks at some inexpensive ways to hedge against harder times to come.
August 14, 2013: We take a lot at how the Kondratiev Long Wave is doing and what it may hold in store for us in coming months.
August 10, 2013: We consider the problems of Next Level Optimization and how it could wipe out a large portion of the remaining real jobs in the world and we consider whether there’s not an investment model investing in API leaders in varous industry groups…
August 7, 2013: We concern ourselves primarily with two items this morning: One is our happening on an oddly named military training document and the other is home terrorism prepping with ideas on how to service a radiation monitor…
Augst 3, 2013: We look back at some of the pre-Great Depression markers in America’s history and discover that depressions aren’t that uncommon and they make be a natural outcome from disruptive technologies.
July 31, 2013 The Color of Money is discussed since understanding the thievery from numbered accounts seems to be above everyone’s head…
July 27, 2013: CJ’s Boolean and Investing in the Ganzfeld explores the use of software and sensory deprivation (lite) in making better investment decisions.
July 24, 2013: We unveil a groupthink project as we try to assess sectorial dependencies between major sectors of the economy. It’s a deep and long subject (More than 7,000 words, so plan on extra coffee with this report!)
July 20, 2013: A course in surveillance algorithms is where we do the patriotic thing and table some ideas for how to build a better surveillance mousetrap to keep an eye on the public. Which is already being done, of course…
July 17, 2013: We look in again on our “digital tulips” – those evolving electronic virtual currencies like Bitcoin and speculate as to why IRS may not have any particular incentive to offer quick tax guidance yet.
July 13, 2013: With the forward views of Capt. Midnight wrapped up we move on to consider one of his concerns: The return of the “Grim Oiler.”
July 10, 2013: Conclusion of Capt. Midnight’s series about the future and some discussion of Peak Oil and why it hasn’t been banished as most people (wrongly) think.
July 6, 2013: Thinking about taking Social Security later than sooner? You might want to run some numbers first. And the first of a to-parter on what the future may hold from Capt. Midnight…
July 3, 2013: On Democracies and State Secrets. We may not like the idea of nations having secrets, but turns out the idea goes back to earlier times…like the early 1800’s
June 29, 2013: What Cost Power? involves the intriguing question of whether government should have standby teams of snipers ready to kill those who might attack public infrastructure...
June 26, 2013: A technical trading note this morning as our travels to the East Coast continue with markets coming right down to our trading expectations…
June 23, 2013: The Missing Link in our derusting adventures and a few travel notes…
June 22, 2013: 13-Acres and Independence series: Putting together a prepper’s dream shop – and on a budget, too… Also, propsects for next week with out trading model stuck in neutral, at least for the weekend..
June 19, 2013: Now about that Recovery looks at Port traffic as a reality check and I opine that Ben Bernanke’s performance hasn’t been as bad as some might think.
June 15, 2013: Is Poverty Really a Choice? Also this morning we review the collapse in Japan this week as a kind of global canary which seems to be tweeting when the stimulus ends, the wars must begin…
June 12, 2013: Want a way to fix the whole world? Well, how about an Anti-Mnarketing League?
June 8, 2013: We do a follow-on to our Vacation Economics report and call this one Vacations on the Cheap. We also place a call to our Water Department which is unusually busy and expect downside action in markets in weeks ahead.
June 5, 2013: VES: Vacation Economics School wherein we look at some of the cost of vacationing and we wonder if a slow motion “sell in May” is on.
June 1, 2013: Two biggies on the breakfast plate this weekend: One is some wondering if there’s a link at growing chaos in the world and what now looks like a pattern of preemptive government response (ammo buys and so on). The major focus piece this morning is to design and build housing of the future: 8-foot living cubes to virtualize housing…
May 29, 2013: We look at the problems of falling velocity of money and we also consider a possible 15-year lag between more moms working and higher crime rates as new stats show working moms are now the main breadwinners in 40 percent of households.
May 25, 2013: See Spot Run – wherein we ponder some of the moves in the spot prices of metals.a And we wait to see if more earthquake language arrives shortly...
May 22, 2013: We look at some very disturbing very long term data about the Sun which suggests we are entering a new Dalton Minimum or cold period on Earth. Then we look at the zero-growth economy and how supposed military “cuts” are just shifts to military contractors…
May 18, 2013: Thinking about Retirement? You may wish to look at how your grandparents retired and plan on that model for retirement lifestyle rather than the one your parents lived…we may be past “Peak Retirement”
May 15, 2013: Some interesting data to look at this morning including collapsing velocity of money, new PPI figures, and who’s winning the footrace in terms of the global economy…
May 11, 2013: Some advice to readers on a number of topics, including a discussion of mental toughness and some hints on how to make it to the top in a hurry. Plus we will roll with the latest earthquake charts which are not at all encouraging…
May 8, 2013: Building a Pepper’s Dream Shop considers the unasked question “What happens to disaster recovery without power” We hammer and nail that plus look at some scary trends in solar output which hint at a return to the Ice Age isn’t off the table…
May 4, 2013: As warplanes are buzzing in the Middle East this morning, and we are tracking some damn odd earthquakes which were progressively moving up the California coast on Friday, we have a real focus this morning on how the free press is in trouble of being automated out of existence. What could go wrong?
May 1, 2013: A Personal Motivation Toolkit – some of the things to do on your own that can help turn you into a high-performance human…
April 27, 2013: Over-prepping? Oh sure, there is no such thing if the world really is nearing as end as we know it. But, what about if it goes on happily sailing into the future intact…what about then?
April 24, 2013: If we get to a global coastal event in the next month or two, three words I want you to remember are Altitude, Water, and Food…
April 20, 2013: We look at microhomes and wonder if they might haver the potential to rekindle the American Dream for people who have been priced out of participation?
April 17, 2013: Proud of this week’s report: Avoiding slogatory and why new cars are partly free. And our Global Index says time to get out or be short.
April 13, 2013: Advice to a Gen-Xer…We tackle a really complicated problem of how to go about making the right financial decisions in life. It ain’t easy turns out because this world is a hugely complex place.
April 10, 2013: Taking Out America: A Fictional Short Story. If you don’t see risk that North Korea could effectively beat the United State using assymetric warfare, you haven’t been paying attention.
April 6, 2013: Under Pressure: We wonder if the economy could just simple ‘flail’ under the exactly wrong conditions, like a North Korea EMP attack…
April 3, 2013: We take a look at developments on the Korean peninsula and conclude that in some ways, particularly economic and selling of predator type unmanned military vehicles, there’s a business case to be made for war with North Korea.
March 30, 2013: We look at Bitcoins and wonder whether this is a bubble, a revolution, or whether there will be some Bitcoin Billionaires to come from it all?
March 27, 2013: A preppers guide to solar panels and how to set them up...
March 23, 2013: A preppers guide to DC power systems in an emergency setting. It’s a kind of McGyver toolset of basics which fit on a couple of pieces of paper…something you may want to print out and stash in your bugout kit.
March 20, 2013: Bracing for the Bond Collapse & Death by Stude3nt Loan Cosigning head up this week. And North Korea, right on schedule lauches a (computer) attack on South Korea.
March 16, 2013: Uglier Questions and Answers this morning about many thinking including how police train dogs to bark our drug suspects on command and other useful things to know…
March 13, 2013: We consider an interesting gray area: When does being a prepper and gun owner sort of slide over into the area of being a “domestic terrorist?”
March 9, 2013: We line up some comparisons between the different investment options and conclude that the biggest winner in the rally since January 1 of 2009 has been… silver!
March 6, 2013: Advice to a friend “going nomad” in this morning’s report and some scary talk about how everyone in Washington is looking to a new carbon tax as a way to fund another nuclear industry…
March 2, 2013: How Preppers waste money – lots of poorly thought out spending…
February 27, 2013: How to make money in down markets is a quick introduction to a few simple ways to make money when markets go down. But how to do that? Well, that’s uop to your sense of timing…
February 23, 2013: Attack of Property Rights. As if the government didn’t have enough powers through property taxes, the arising trend to regulate mobile homes has us wondering about other abuses of private property rights by people who don’t own the property….
February 20, 2013: We propose a new way to figure out if businesses are “good” or “bad” without having to be too judgmental about it: Simply poll the parties to a transaction. If one side feels like they were taken advantage of, then that’s bad business at work…
February 16, 2012: Dying on Schedule looks at some of the real obstacles to life extension technologies, mainly how would we ever afford it?
February 13, 2013: We look over the State of the Union and where the economy is and wonder if it’s time to wade back into rental real estate, or not.
February 9, 2013: The “Moment Before Touch” looks at a topic odd to some investors: Is there good investment and life advice to be had from deeply considering our dreams? Also: Would psychedelic users invest better, or worse, than non consciousness altered investors?
February 6, 2013: We look at whether the big 8.0 quake down in the Solomon Islands was a prequel to a coming global coastal event. Plus, we also offer a second piece in our Advice to Your Families. This morning, it’s how to manage your MeCompany. Long, but interesting, I think…
February 2, 2013: Part 1 of Investment Advice for Young Families…we look at investing a little different around here and a surprising amount of our thinking is not classically “money” oriented.
January 30, 2012: Wherin we ponder “If the money underlying indices is crooked, might we need to go on a quest for some nonmonetary measure of how investments should perform?
January 26, 2013: Deriving the Future with search engines…a lesson in how to roll your own view of the future.
January 23, 2013: The ‘Secret Investment” no one talks about is…tax liens and deeds…
January 19, 2013: Do we have enough data yet to begin asking if the women’s movement was a real bit of human rights progress, or whether it might have been a corporate plan to put more women into the workforce, stimulate product demand and press down prevailing wages?
January 16, 2013: Things We don’t talk about in public: Like a possible bond crash to come later this year…
January 12, 2013: D-153’s Incoming Briefing for new Obama administration officials provides a decent review of where the world may be at this turn in history and we pay a visit to Louie’s Bad News Diner to get out fill of morning news & scuttlebutt.
January 9, 2013: Is Gun Insurance the answer? Sure would let insurance companies sort out risk differently that PC government – and besides, it would be a whole new industry to boot…
January 5, 2013: Looks like our expectation that any major earth changes would be closer to Clif’s date in Spring are working out with the 7.5 quake up in Alaska, not far from the Queen Charlotte islands is working out. Not a good thing…but what it is is what it is. And our Indicator goes long…
January 2, 2013: Don’t look now, but shouldn’t the spending bill have originated in the Senate and doesn’t this make the measure just passed illegal?
December 29, 2012: Not to be a “Gloomy Guss” about things, but this week we have a lot of indicators piling up that suggest a horrible 2013. We also talk aboudt the evolution of our market trading system which has been short since mid-October.
December 26, 2012: Besides a few after Christmas headlines, we look at the charts and ponder whether to exit our current short position and review whether prepping is worth it…
December 22, 2012: Every few years we focus on our home office – and this time we’d like to focus on how to go paperless, if you haven’t already done so.
December 19, 2012: How the World Really Ends offers the idea that although there is a LOT of hype about the Mayan Calendar holding some major issues for a few days from now, the real end of world events are likely somewhere in our geological future a good ways…
December 15, 2012: We look at some of the economic sur4vival issues facing America – and us as individuals – in 2013. Plus some comments on the Elliott Wave picture of the markets and the latest dire warnings from 2012 researcher Patrick Geryl…
December 12, 2012: While we wait around for the Fed meeting, we look ahead to 2013 and offer some tips on how to build your own sweat equity plans for the year. Ours will be investing some energy in aquaponics and hydroponics to cut our food bills…
December 8, 2012: We look at some adjusted “spending power data” that offers the insight that while the US is still in a longwave depression, there is at least some stability in the spending power of the working class…
December 5, 2012: Problems for the Paranoid to Ponder: Disappearing Earthquake Data, and the 2030 new industry problem…a couple of curious black holes which may have wide impacts on our future.
December 1, 2012: Not sure if I will make it to the TEDx talk in Tucson next weekend, but there’s no shortage of material to talk about as we look at the coming year both in terms of economics and “disaster porn…”
November 28, 2012: Worried about going out of style in the workplace? This morning a few notes on howe to survive in the new ERP/MRP based companies…
November 24, 2012: A couple of heartless business models are considered: Has rolling up foreclosed property and LGBT sexual preference been turned into business models?
November 21, 2012: An intriguing look at how God/Universe/or supreme something or other influences personal financial well-being...
November 17, 2012: Number crunching for Branson is on the agenda this morning as I head into discussions this week with Robin Landry – a fellow student of longwave economic theory…
November 14, 2012: As we contemplate the chances of a major earthquake ahead, something else strikes me as odd: There’s too much shuffling in the upper ranks of the military – Army and Navy….
November 10, 2012: With two windows for “scheduled” 6.5 earthquakes ahead this coming week, we’re tuning up our action and requisition lists just in case Patrick Geryl’s next predictions hit.
November 7, 2012: He’s Baaaack….and now what? We sum up an outlook for (once again) no change. And we offer data to back up that assessment.
November 3, 2012: With all the talk about solar companies in the news lately, we thought it would be worthwhile to roll some numbers around and see how the payback on solar power for the home is looking nowadays…
October 31, 2012: We wonder this morning if there might not be a real economic upside to Hurricane Sandy – seems like the market is thinking there might be. Also: A different kind of prepping discussion in depth – how to get started building after-whatever skills.
October 27, 2012: Sandy is acting suspiciously “steered” as she heads for Washington and NYC – Plus we eye the presidential outcome as deciding whether we remain in a gold position or blow out of it…
October 24, 2012: With the post debate beat-down of the market, our trading model is on Sell but we need to await the weekly closing for confirmation. And anything can happen since it’s Fed-Day.
October 20, 2012: Do we Hold ‘Em or Fold ‘Em on our two metal coins? And, sizing up China’s development of a huge ground army, does that mean they have their eyes on the Middle East and does that, in turn mean our next ultra-long-term investment should be oil?
October 17, 2012: We consider our latest quarterly review of our own financial statement…no numbers shared, but the form and approach is useful, I think.
October 13, 2012: With the dark of the moon tonight, let’s not forget that just because president Obama and Netanyahu don’t seem to be getting along publicly, there are plenty of reasons why Israel might not hold to its date of “next spring” for an attack on Iran. Might even explain someone’s distraction during a debate…
October 10, 2012: Police state notes this morning because there’s just a heck of a lot going on – many data points to fill in kind of mental scatter chart.
October 6, 2012: Be ready for a fine reslicing of 2013 – I’ve got a truth detector in the works and it brings much interesting insight already into the business of future predicting.
October 3, 2012: A look at futuring technologies, old and news as we consider the latest bob run and “ancient remote viewers…”
September 29, 2012: We look at some interesting ideas for non-monetary goods to accumulatte. Plus some new drag reduction equipment is coming to market for cars and airplanes.
September 26, 2012: First of twoi parts on some of George’s “unconventional investment plans” for the next year, or so…
September 22, 2012: Sigils and Signs of the Times: Our friend near the PTB explains a fine point of Obamacare: It may actually be deflationary and keep a lid on gold and silver prices!
September 19, 2012: Thinventory shows up – on a trip to the store, I noticed some mighty interesting changes at Wal-Mart...
September 15, 2012: A call from the PTB reveals how the US debt may be buying large chunks of property for the Chinese and other interesting details.
September 12, 2012: With a Middle East war between Israel and Iran looming, we worry about potential domestic blowback into the US homeland a worry about a “Big hole in defense”.
September 8, 2012 Another Depression Marker: Fix-It shops – repair and recycle oriented, are starting to gain as a trend as prices of goods escalate. Also in view: Tool sharing.
September 5, 2012: Tranqs and Economics: Pill up, partner, time to ponder the ills of pills…after we ask what the hell is going on in Cokedale, Colorado.
September 1, 2012: First up this morning, an updated outlook for the Sept. 10 period when a big solar flare may be in the works. Then we get into whether teleportation would be a good thing or bad. Last, we give away a free copy of our ebook (with SurvivalWoman) “11 Steps to a Strageic Life.”
August 29, 2012: We issue one of our “flawless financial forecasts” for how the rest of the year and into next ought to work out using our favorite tea leaves. And then we talk with 2012 doomster Patrick Geryl and come up with an uncomfortable amalgam of his work and Clif’s which is pretty damn ugly..
August 25, 2012: While Marxist-style communism if often maligned for forced labor from the Stalinist collectivization period in the Soviet Union, there may be a modern analog on the flip side: Forced consumption. Care to guess what we’re seeing more of?
August 22, 2012: Evolution of earthquake weapons? Some tantalizing connectiosn are starting to come together…
August 18, 2012: A reader request: An in-depth discussion about unemployment rates and why everyone cites something different…
August 15, 2012: Why your conspiracy meds aren’t working: Just too damn many things lining up nowadays.
August 11, 2012: Trying to get it right with FEMA: Going through “channels” to get answers to FEMA questions around the net (coffins and camps) seemed like a great idea. Until, in a joint effort with BackdoorSurvival.com, we actually tried it…
August 8, 2012: Another important Depression II marker as Argentina leads the way on trade offset laws.
August 4, 2012: A Branding Self-Assessment. Want to see how “branded” you’ve become? We offer some insights.
August 1, 2012: A bunch of economic notes, markets are pointing higher on charts and we look at some interesting work on weather modification and what seems to be at its core.
July 29, 2012: Can making a whole pile of money be reduced to a knowledge engineering problem and then solved for max profits? An interesting notion to consider.
July 25, 2012: Olympic-sized jitters. Our trading model is flashing warnings about the period just ahead. So, Olympic-sized jitters or are we being set up for a whipsaw?
July 21, 2012: “Deathidemic: A New Socioeconomic Disease” Postualtes that the theater shooting in Aurora this week is a symptom of a much larger meta problem that feed terrorist groups and crime…
July 18, 2012: Investing in the summertime blahs. Model says higher, common sense argues to sit on the wallet for a while.
July 14, 2012: Appalled by all the talk about throwing open America to all kinds of illegal immigration? Well, when we run some numbers, the policy actually makes fiscal sense. Sure, it may be adverse to quality of life, but money doesn’t care….
July 11, 2012: Time to buy real estate? We look at some trends, and try to come up with a strategy to maximize life-long wealth accumulation.
July 7, 2012: We continue searching for an even better place to retire, but that has turned into a larger than expected problem.
July 4, 2012: Our trading model keeps edging upward. Could a “for real” rally be coming?
June 30, 2012: Three Job-Killing Technologies. Even if war is averted, there is still big trouble ahead as three technologies now coming out of labs are sure to kill millions of additional jobs…
June 27, 2012: The “Disappearing Rich” explores tweo problems of being “rich” anymore: A simple math problem and where to go for good advice.
June 23, 2012: A check on our trading system. How’d it do this week? Better than its inventor, that’s for damn sure..
June 20, 2012: There’s reason to worry about things like asteroid iimpacts next spring into summer, and what’s this? George on the verge of bullish?
June 16, 2012: The Dandelion and the Bank Vault: A thought tool for analyzing out future?
June 13, 2012: The missing piece of the Future of State Controls is how the battle goes with the organized crime families that are exerting undue pressure on many world events in background, including Greece, Spain, Italy, and Europe...
June 9, 2012: Modeling terrorism in advance? The Future of State Controls, Part 2.
June 6, 2012: The Future of State Controls: Psst! Wanna invest in a UN labeled torture tool? hard to do that thanks to lawyering anymore…
June 2, 2012: End of ALL Jobs, Part 2 plus we go through a much longer view of markets this week because of the potential importance of economics should a global panic and collapse be playing out.
May 30, 2012: In “The End of ALL Jobs” we begin to consider what would happen if automation of human effort continues at the same pace as it has since the early 1950’s? What happens to the Economy when there are NO MORE JOBS FOR HUMANS? (Part 1)
May 26, 2012: 13 Acres and Independence: Coping Forward/Autonomous Systems. By chance or design autonomous systems are in trouble
May 23, 2012: Time to be Afraid – Very, Very Afraid since markets this morning at the open may challenge support and if that fails, we could be instantly “game on” for global collapse…
May 19, 2012: The whole world looks to be sliding into the third wave down of the Global Collapse as I nervously eye big name meetings this weekend and we wonder whether the markets have the strength to bound smartly higher off long term support levels next week.
May 18: Another Trading Note
May 16, 2012: The headline says it all: “Helicopter Ben, “Terrorism,” or Global Revaluation?”
May 14, 2012: A Personal Trading note.
May 12, 2012: Some discussion about how far down the market could go – a little bit (*12,500 Dow) or a lot…
May 9, 2012: A frightening specter came to mind at the Civil War Memorial in Vicksburg, MS: Will the NC gay marriage ban coupled with racial tensions lead to a second US Civil War?
May 5, 2012: Battle for Internet supremacy: Will Microsoft, Google, Apple, or Amazon take a shot at acquiring eBay?
May 2, 2012: What will save America? A look at a new indicator I’ve been toying with says we either need that Next new Thing pretty quite-like, or we’re into a financial pit that bottoms out in devaluation…
April 28, 2012: A high beta investment system: Is there money to be made playing gold off the S&P 500?
April 25, 2012: This one is important – we eye the price of gold and how it performed relative to the S&P in the 19897 mini-crash and in the declines in 2008-2009.
April 21, 2012: Decision time for markets next week plus we take a look at some of the public service aspects of ham radio.
April 18, 2012: The Retirement Planning and Preservation Problem – time to start rewriting our lifestyle for the latter years…
April 14, 2012: T’is a fine spring morning and what better sport than to play a round of Financial Golf. Of course that means we need to write a rulebook, of court….
April 11, 2012: A simple 17-week moving average technique shows just how close markets are to disaster and a couple of quakes in the South Pacific have us nervous that the break-up of a massive tectronic plate may be in the works.
April 7, 2012: The Flip Side of Virtual. Oh sure there is some upside to those head-mounted displays, but metal printing is going to wipe out thousands of jobs in short order…
April 4, 2012: Besides the usual news flow, we look at the future of virtual reality and how it could shrink the need for real estate square footage in the future.
March 31, 2012: Attention on the Beach! Trouble Wave may be inbound.
March 28, 2012: With Obama on track for another term, and with the High Court looking to uphold governments subservient role to the electorate, can a rally be far behind?
March 24, 2012: I apologize for not pointing this out earlier, but the modern analog to the Civilian Conservation Corp of the 1930’s is alive and well.
March 21, 2012: Did Planet X arrive in 2002 and no one took note of it? The Oaxaca case for a 188.5 day earthquake cycle since then is convincing…
March 17, 2012: Prospects of intergenerational Warfare and (next week) what’s being done to head it off…
March 14, 2012: We consider how to become more “enterprising” – with a side order of highly motivated. And besides quakes and such, you know who Newt looks like?
March 10, 2012: We look into “luck”: in some detail and go looking to see what the global game changer might be that supposedly is emergent now.
March 7, 2012: Our charts are like tea leaves this morning as we toss darts at the expected bottom and timing along the way with potential crash dates in April.
March 3, 2012: Chasing the Winds of Luck – and what is it that causes runs in casinos and markets, anyway?
February 29, 2012: In Psyching Out Spring we see America as a paradoxical place, saying one thing and doing another….repeatedly.
February 25, 2012: Check your morals and ethics at the door this morning, kiddies. We’re gonna talk about how to make money on war.
February 22, 2012: The Going Into March Checklist: With serious change coming this spring, we haul out some old familiar tools…
February 18, 2012: Preparing for the shifting sands of March: difficult prospects, easy planning.
February 15, 2012: Tensions wrap up in the Middle East as Iran starts fueling, the Stennis cruises Hormuz, and the rate of rise problem dogs markets. But that’s OK because we explain how to Eat a Book and at the same time, reinvent chess…
February 11, 2012: Playing the [exciting] game of Calling the Top… or maybe we’ll get lucky and only have a Crash in March….
February 8, 2012: A lesson in how to read the remarks of the Fed chairman and an update on all the pieces being moved around the two Mideast hotspots, Syria and Iran
February 4, 2012: A Real Anti-Gravity Effect? Sounds self-explanatory…
February 1, 2012: This week, we take the simple system for investment and apply it to a couple of other items – like the Housing price report from S&P and make an amazing forecast: 1970’s Housing Prices are yet to come…
January 28, 2012: A simple system for investment.
January 25, 2012: HOAs as PTBs: By looking at how local “powers” act, we can sure learn about how their “big brothers upstream” act. Also, is the Baltic Dry signaling big decline ahead?
January 21, 2012: Pay off from prepping: We already knew that “prepping” pays off well should you suddenly lose your job. Now we see the snow payoff, too…
January 18, 2012: Partial blackout on the Internet today, but we have some reasonable expectations about what’s ahead…
January 14, 2012: Weekend of Reader Questions: Practical stuff for going forward.
January 11, 2012: Goodbye Survivalist Label? Certain implications follow a serious review of the fifth order house business model, after all…
January 7,2012: Tripping toward Complexification and Chaos plus our annual update on what long-term inflation is running in America since 1913…
January 4, 2012: Electile Dysfunction comes to Iowa and the Magic of Big Money may as well be labeled “Cashagra..”
December 31, 2011: On our last day of the year, we ponder some of the possible scenarios which could arrive in 2012 and try to assign some odds.
December 28, 2012: Some basic building blocks of how to make and accumulate money in 2012 and beyond.
December 24, 2012: Annual Forecast Part 2: Tall Tales in Housing and other problems ahead in 2012.
December 21, 2011: Waiting for a crucial housing report which may move markets – we’ll hope for a non-event…
December 17, 2011: Annual Forecast Issue Part 1 – plus some loving words of praise for the dim-witted banksters who have us significantly higher in US derivative risks now than even the peak of the Housing bubble
December 14, 2011: POV School: We study the importance of one’s point of view is how to assemble the messy sets of facts presented by news reports.
December 10, 2011: Time for a Houston and Seattle political party – sort of building on the NBA franchise idea?
December 7, 2011: Gaming the New Depression – we start collect5ing ideas on how to lose less.
December3, 2011: The Mirage Effect in Complex Economic Systems: Certain illusions are becoming more clear and lessons obvious.
November 30, 2011: Got stored food? Does this mean you can be considered a terrorist?
November 26, 2011: An increasingly conflicted future lies ahead as the varfious paradigms battle it out in the headlines. But, in a curious way, it all makes sense when you stand back a bit…
November 23, 2011: Big Picture Day: Why Dow 1,651 is Possible in 2012…
November 19, 2011: Is the Post Office Obsolete? And, if so, what are the implications?
November 16, 2011: While we await CPI data, more evidence that a continued rally in the dollar could crush gold and slam the markets downward.
November 12, 2011: More on Ure’s Semi-Constant and a look ahead to some adventures next week.
November 9, 2011: Using the Euro/Dollar relation to “solve for Dow” and “Solve for S&P” plus musical chairs of Europe…
November 5, 2011: A look at collecting useful knowledge for the end of the world plus a weather at at what could be commodity troubles come Monday for world markets to digest.
November 2, 2011: Riding the News Wave and why the market oughta rally 200 points today.
October 29, 2011: Wandering through the rubble of EuroLand, sizing up Halloween, while we watch a great American Divide open up
October 26, 2011: Europe’s Cloudy Outlook: We may have one more round of happy talk before grim economic reality takes hold...
October 25, 2011: A special mid-week market update from Robin Landry with charts.
October 22, 2011: What’s important now? Getting the direction of oil and gold right – as always…
October 19, 2011: Inflation holding steady to firming, more talk about how Europe can be saved but we look at how close a Herstatt II is and a contribution from Capt. Midnight assesses odds of a new Dark Ages ahead.
October 16, 2011: Some further thoughts on {“revolution”} and the curious rebirth of Oklahoma
October 15, 2011: Crunch time is on for markets – either rally like hell, or it’s time to duck…
October 12, 2011: Marking Time to Earnings but with an eye toward where gold’s price action is pointing and with a side order of useful definitions for use when thinking about “revolution”
October 8, 2011: As we wait for Shocktober to get rolling, a virus in a drone system has our attention.
October 5, 2011: 99ers and GlobalRev – will it only be Holder to go?
October 1, 2011: A look at growing hunger, lying banks, and a market outlook plus this week some notes on drilling a water well.
September 28, 2011: The scariest chart formation of all – the long term head and shoulders view.
September 24, 2011: Mr. Ure Shoots Fish: How the macro picture looks for this fall and how I plan to make money on it I’m right.
September 21, 2011: (*First of our new Wednesday/Saturday publishing schedule): We size up the right strategy for gold during a fall panic and what are the odds of an oil embargo this fall?
September 18, 2011: What would a disruptive technology do…and can one be allowed to arrive just now with things as they are?
September 17, 2011: Laying on the train tracks: Is this market going down any time soon? Maybe…
September 11, 2011: We look at some HR issues related to Depressions and hard times, plus what would it be like if a President resigned?
September 10, 2011: Is there an 87.5 year political cycle in humans? Some interesting things to notice the day before the 10th anniversary of 9/11
September 4, 2011: Anaphylactic Debt: What might happen with the allergic reaction to debt kicks in.
September 3, 2011: Collapse Starts Here! examines some of the last minute changes before we go over the edge into a wild falling fall.
August 28, 2011: Making up a list of new skills to acquire – takes a bit of thinking, but it may be worth the work.
August 27, 2011: Equities rally, gold recovers a bit, and an overblown hurricane waning distracts from the new dust bowl trying to form in the South.
August 21, 2011: A Sneak Peek at Chapter 3 of the Howard Hill & George Ure book on economics – all fitting discussion of “What’s Money?”
August 20, 2011: Think things are bad now? Wait until the Velocity of Money issue catches up with Global Food Prices…
August 14, 2011 Spontaneously ventured companies and some thoughts on ‘soft’ capital.
August 13, 2011: Trading notes and what is ahead including how I do simple charting.
August 7, 2011: That Damn Velocity of Money problem – shades of the Great Depression (1)
August 6, 2011: S&P Downgrades US, Quake Watch
August 5, 2010: Tactical trading notes on where the market could be leading us. George back in cash, watching markets patiently.
August 3, 2011: Special Midweek Update: Markets near “crash territory” and we consider whether there’s a global renovatio monetae in process…
July 31, 2011: What’s ahead for comet Elenin? The US Standard of Living is dropping almost 1% per year lately, and churches as “tribes” are considered in this week’s report.
July 30, 2011: A sane look at Washington’s debt ceiling insanity
July 24, 2011: The Rally in the Big Picture – where we look at the larger context of where the market is and offer some thoughts on multiple marraiges as a counterpoint to coirporate legal structures. Offshored Marriages, anyone?
July 23, 2011 Troubles in Norway, more bank closures, but 200 up for the Dow this week…
July 17, 2011: Radical Thoughts Department: Can software (guvware and stateware) replace government?
July 16, 2011: Diffusion of Innovation revisited with a trip to the laser lab to size up News Corp…
July 10, 2011: Rethinking Nomadism. And in the ChartPack, some notes on ‘kissing’
July 9, 2011: Unveiling the URLD: Ure’s Real Life Deflator”
July 3, 2011: The EoC problem – the End of Civilization – issue. (Oh, that…)
July 2, 2011: The “Wounded Bear” considers exiting his short positions, but it’s how you lose that matters…
June 26, 2011: Detroit Versus the Long Wave. I think we have a canary here…
June 25, 2011: Hail, hail, the gang’s all here. And if not, we’ll just text ’em.
June 19, 2011: Although the longer term still holds a Dow down around 1,701 or lower, the market is presently poised for a possible serious bounce – upward! All depends on Greece…
June 18, 2011: A second forest fire of the year within two miles of home makes the drought in the nation’s south quite personal around here.
June 12, 2011: Will we see a wild bout of deflation before eventual government intervention to shove money into the hands of working people?
>June 11, 2011: Main investment question to ponder this weekend is will there be a significant/tradable bounce off the present lows?
>June 5, 2011: How I’m buying Net Worth Insure – using a few out of the money put options on major indices.
>June 4, 2011: A few thoughts on Markets and Business Cycles as the Dow turns down.
>June 2, 2011: Special update from Robin Landry
>May 29, 2011: The Last Days of Cash – if the paradigm is going to survive, regulation of the net becomes key to defending coin or the realm...
>May 28, 2011: Coming for the internet, Peoplenomics readers get some skin in the game in Joplin – and we’re on high quake watch status…
>May 22, 2011: Serious ruminations about the Data Gap which has turned into the Data Wall in post Equinox 2013…
>May 21, 2011: Depends what you mean by war…as the wars in (everywhere, seems) continue the real fight is over semantics…
>May 15, 2011: The Quest for the 100 MPG Carburetor versus the inherent design conflicts of automobiles
>May 14, 2011: Seal Team Six is being Trademarked and a discussion of debt piling on up to 63.5% of GDP now…
>May 8, 2011: A longish discussion about how foreign exchange rate directions may be useful in catching long-term market trend changes.
>May 7, 2011: Not a very good week for the market, at least if you’re a bull…
>May 1, 2011: Some ominous and worse things to report on the earthquake front
>April 30, 2011: We’re on High Alert for a major quake as HAARP magnetometers record a major deflection larger than the pre-Japan Quake.
>April 24, 2011: The Prospects of a “Disruptive Information” event seem to be increasing.
>April 23, 2011: Ready to :Sell in May”? is where we look at the exponential price rises in metals and ask “How far is UP” on these babies?
>April 17, 2011: Is there a way to beat gold? Maybe – it could be familysteading.
April 16, 2011: At last – a somewhat boring week. Maybe now we can rest up a bit except for the 80-odd branches reworked by FDIC bank regulators this week…
April 10, 2011: Forensic Macroeconomics 635 is the proposed title for an econ course which would sort out woo-woo kind of ideas from economic footprints…
April 9, 2011: Economic End Times with the Federal Budget? Not hardly – just more useless theatrics to entertain the masses…
April 3, 2011: Could a “Starfaring University” really work in today’s world?
April 2, 2011: With radioactivity leaking into the Pacific and even worse news when the Housing picture is examined closely, the PTB will have their hands full keeping up the paradigm this spring…
March 27, 2011: Death by JIT Collapse and Wars….and since Japan has four times the population density as around Chernobyl what would we expect the economic impacts will be?
March 26, 2011: 500 weeks later, Peoplenomics is still going strong…
March 22, 2011: A couple of mass Layoff notes…
March 20, 2011: The “Global Observer-state” Problem becomes acute as we come up on the March 25th release language period on top of Libya and the Japan quake…
March 19, 2011: The game of Beat the Clock continues in Japan, some of the key elites are half way around the world this coming week, and we’re left starting at broken market trends…
March 13, 2011: We assess the mechanics of the Japan radiation threat which may – or may not – be posed to the US homeland.
March 12, 2011: Now, a nuclear meltdown threatens in Japan. Ill winds seven times around the globe to arrive?
March 6, 2011: Installing a “New Duality”? If you like the Cold War, you’ll love the next one…
March 5, 2011: A look at some of the “coming attractions” the PTB may have in store for us…
February 27, 2011: A little Chart Talk about where things are going between now and mid summer…
February 26, 2011: So are we “rounding the turn” to get a leg down going now?
February 23, 2011: Special Midweek Update
February 20, 2011: Yes, I really do plan my life with an operating budget and I model what happens when everything in the way of services seizes up…
>February 19, 2011: Lots going on this morning! Lemme see: Dead in Libya, GlobalRev continues, more banks are shuttered – and around the ranch we’re trying “fire gardening”
>February 13, 2011: Geocaching 101: Famine, Disorder, and the Livingston-Penn Minimum
>February 12, 2011: Four Banks, Four Foreign Affairs issues, and a major trend change by Sarkozy (of all people!)
>February 6, 2011: Hiding Survivalism as a Hobby. And a surprise ending…
>February 5, 2011: Behind the Rally – and some worrisome long term weather data comes into focus
>January 30, 2011: Computational Revolutionary Dynamics and how I read the web bot report…
>January 29, 2011: How Far is Down? Depends if you’re talking markets, prosperity or street conditions in Egypt, I suppose…
>January 23, 2011: We take a look at the insurance industry and the problem of industries that have gotten too big for the current economy…
>January 22, 2011: Blow Off Top – Continues?
>January 16, 2011: Wherein we try to decide where’s the line between “paranoid” and a study of business models.
>January 15, 2011: Supply, Demand, and Business Models
>January 9, 2011: A Tragic shooting incident fills linguistic expectations and may set a path toward internet licensing in play….
>January 8, 2011: We focus on additional signs that inflation is lurking along with rising food prices and a flat jobs picture.
>January 3, 2011: Another curious quake and more importantly, a theory begins to form.
>January 2, 2011: A few thoughts and tools for getting more done in 2011 and then a look at an interesting coincidence of HAARP, dead birds in Arkansas, and a quake in Argentina
>January 1, 2011: 2011 gets off to a ‘shaky’ start which sets off our alarm bells…
>December 26, 2010: Some Day Off: A Look Ahead to Trading 2011
>December 25, 2010: A selection of Christmasy news items from Mr. Cynic
>December 19, 2010: Time to Get Back INto Rentals? Depends on your taste for work and risk, I suppose…
>December 18, 2010: Remember our talk about a ‘data gap’? Along comes the UN to meddle with the web…
>December 12, 2010: It is possible to have a Crash-free Depression? Evidence suggests it may be…
December 11, 2010: As We Go Tipping: WikiLeaks still leaking and is Bill Clinton toi be a Co-president along with Obama in the Putin-Medvedev mold?
December 5, 2010: Think there’s a room for a rally? Not if you look at historical commodity prices, that’s for sure…
December 4, 2010: We make a key distinction between INvestors and OUTvestors. Care to guess which one you are?
November 28, 2010: So, you want to be a millionaire? How about an offshore bank – oh, and we ask is Prozac hyping the markets?
November 27, 2010: To Shell in a Handbasket – we start with Korea…
November 25, 2010: A daily update and some notes for the holiday on how to cook a turkey..
November 21, 2010: Some thoughts about Claus Dettelbacher’s “The PreRevolution Handbook”
November 20, 2010: TSA & the Tipping Point. Where it looks more like a seafood boil than a picket fence…
November 14 (Waiting to Tip) Some thoughts on “Decoupling” from the mainstream economy and the virtues of living below your lifestyle potential.
November 13: Things haven’t gone well for the Obama Road Show in Asia…
November 7, 2010: Using our fictitious Directorate 153, we look at some of the daily news headlines and look to the Tipping Point
November 6, 2010: Plateauing – as we await the tipping point….
November 3, 2010: A short last-minute checklist ahead of the tipping point…
October 31, 2010: A look at the blurring line between ‘shadow government’ and ‘administrative law’ as our tipping point nears…
October 30, 2010: Economic bets get made this week, a volcano in Indonesia threatens, and the “tipping point call” looks more and more ‘real’
October 24, 2010: You’ll Never Be Able to Retire looks at what’s crashing that dream and a Wyoming quake looks interesting…
October 23, 2010: Leading edge of a tipping point – and about China’s rare earths export ban impacting anti-grav aircraft…(no, really!)
October 17, 2010: 23-days out from a probable tipping point, we wonder about how to move money around to minimize risk and increase the odds of personal survival with a decent lifestyle intact.
October 10, 2010: Globalism makes its play: Wanna bet a New World Order Currency will be proposed to solve the foreclosure crisis?
October 9, 2010: Is all the hype about QE2 overdone? Could be and when it’s realized, look out below…
October 3, 2010: Strategic overview of some of the issues which could lead to the Nov. 8-12. period tipping point.
October 2, 2010: Nightmare on Foreclosure Street, Part Deux.
September 27, 2010: An oddity in National Dream Center data catches our eye…
September 26, 2010: Gaming the US’s third World Transition…mighty ugly facts in this little study of revolutionary history
September 25, 2010: How to Turn a Loss into a Profit Using options to make the swing…
September 19, 2010: Hundredth Monkey Spreadsheet: OBV, Money-Flow and Inflation adjusted money flows – a look ahead?
September 18, 2010: As the Economy Slides Down (and FDIC whacks 6 more banks)
September 12, 2010: Want your own business? Ask if it will work as a cooperative business model so as to be adaptable to the SOC concept
September 11, 2010: Those plans to replace the income tax and the market shows a small loss for the week.
September 5, 2010: Home defense against EMP is explored along with some components and precautions regular folks can take.
September 4, 2010: The Higher They Go…looks at the market rally, the NZ quake and why the Mexico Drug Revolution isn’t front-page news
September 2, 2010: A Landry note and some personal observations on the market.
August 29, 2010: Starting Over: Got nothing but the shirt on your back? There’s your first planning failure…but now what?
August 28, 2010: Mexico’s Drug Revolution – the MDR – seems to be getting underway
August 22, 2010: Move Over Marx: Yes, we can have a higher tax economy – nothing to stop us, technically…
August 21, 2010: Pilgrimage to Shawnee
August 15, 2010: Big Lies Dept: On a per capita basis, a college degree in the past 7-years hasn’t worked well at all….
August 14, 2010: Which wave is this, anyway?
August 8, 2010: 13 Acres and Independence Chapter 10: The Economics of Yardwork – and some curious outliers to keep an eye on.
August 7, 2010: Slow Motion Directional Change: Are things getting better, or just on hold?
August 3, 2010: A Personal Account Trading Note (Not Financial Advice)
August 1, 2010: 13 Acres and Independence Chapter 9: The $500 Home Survival Kit: Don’t have a way to bug out and head for the Outback? No sweat – here are some starting thoughts…
July 31, 2010: More bank closings and we sere nation’s being replaced by corporations
July 25, 2010: The case for XFII: A standard interface for all sorts of personal finance programs which could automate most – if not all – of life’s choices in money and life management…
July 24, 2010: After rallying on Europe’s bank tests, the market closed before FDIC released names of seven more US banks failing.
July 18, 2010: So, You Finally Got Some Dough: A high class problem, but how do you act when Fortune dumps all over you?
July 17, 2010: A look at my “Crash Window” and what’s ahead…
July 11, 2010: Is Civilization working out? Modern conveniences are nice and all, but what about the authority and power that goes with keeping folks ‘civilized’?
July 10, 2010: Common Sense Economics…
July 4, 2010: Some thoughts about improving government on the nation’s birthday weekend. A fear? It could be our last if the charts are right
July 3, 2010: We pencil out some market projections for the next little while…
June 27, 2010: The Diaspora Handbook, Part Two: Where we get down to the ‘getting out’ tactics.
June 26, 2010: A G20 weekend – sitting on your wallet? Banksters have plans for it…big plans with your money.
June 20, 2010: The Diaspora Handbook, Part One: With the new HPH report expected late Monday, time to think about ‘getting mobile’ with some consideration of drivers. Part two will be techniques.
June 19, 2010: BIGG problems to ponder this weekend: Banks, Israel, Gulf and Gold
June 13, 2010: We pause from our spill watching long enough to ask “Should machines be taxed on their output?”
June 12, 2010: Where is the Job Creation? In order to recover from a decline in the secular economy – shock of shock here – there need to be new jobs…
June 6, 2010: Life Through meta Set Glasses: what you expect to happen is defined by your information sources…
June 5, 2010: Time to Sell Monday? OK, what is the question…
May 30, 2010: Discovering “Reality Waves” not only gives us some insight into markets, but how the whole of reality may work as well…
May 29, 2010: What Did They Die For? Context, Memories, and Memorial
May 23, 2010: Extinction Level Economics Part two. Why the Gulf mess has to be understated to prevent instant meltdown and other problems
May 22, 2010: The Four Envelopes Story – this really is important…
May 16, 2010 A frank discussion about Extinction Level Events – and the biggest oil spill in history.
May 15, 2010: Building Tensions – Noticing ‘Em? Thought our May 6th hot date wasn’t serious? Guess again…
May 14, 2010: Special Friday Pre-Open Chart Note for Peoplenomics subscribers.
May 9: 2010: Time to Regulate Computers? Not to sound like Ned Ludd here, but the time may already be here…And our Dog Poet is here!
May 8, 2010: Changes of Fortune: Desperation Arrives
May 2, 2010: Twilight of the Jets explores the possible decline of cheap & easy transportation
May 1, 2010: George is Now Short
April 25, 2010: A kind of a longish report, but much to cover and why besides gardening, you might dust off those 1950’s fallout shelter plans.
April 24, 2010 Well, here we are, still patiently waiting for a top or upside breakout again…
April 18, 2010: We look at a group’s work reinterpreting the Old Testament with something they call the Self-Defining Hebrew System.
April 17, 2010: Is the top in, or nearly so?
April 11, 2010: Eating in a Post-Prosperity World. Not only some of the theory about valuing of food (and what a waste lawns are) but also some reader one-pot recipes.
April 10, 2010: The president and key leaders of Poland die in a plane crash, the timing of which is interesting, to say the least. And we look at some earthquake predictions…
April 4, 2010: The Recipe System of Learning – what it is, and how it works.
April 3, 2010: The Fed’s “emergency” Rate hike coming Monday to markets like ours
03/28/2010 So, what is the Great Conversion, and how does that all fit with where we’re going financially?
03/27/2010 Let’s call the present period the start of the 120-day pressure cooker, shall we?
03/21/2010 The ‘Core Competency Culture” problem. Want to have fun and scare the PowersThatBe? Be Competent
03/20/2010: March of the dead banks
03/14/2010: A series of unfortunate scenarios. Or, why George orders Tums by the case now.
03/13/2010 Seeking Signposts: The market appears to be gaining strength, but what’s going on beneath the surface?
03/07/2010 When are we in a Depression? What’s the point of recognition, now that we’re at a key inflection point?
03/06/2010 Secret Mega-Projects for a Great Flood?
02/28/2009″ Time Travel and Financial Markets. With time getting drifty, there may be less time to wait for a crash than I’d thought – depending on which kind of crash…
02/27/2010: Pondering the underlying forces that may have caused the Chilean quake.
02/21/2010: Notes on the Revolution: From the Crash heard ’round the World to suspicious looking emails…
02/20/2010: Bank Failures, To Taxacide, to Iron Mountain: The ugly path to the lowest common denominator standard of living.
02/14/2010: Anatomy of an Option Trade. Want to see how to make 35% in 17-trading days?
02/13/2010: A short-term outlook
02/07/2010: Life After Trading? A chat with Jim Goulding – a Chicago bond trader’s outlook on the future.
02/06/2010: “Let it snow, let it snow…oh, and here’s my own pictures of orbs…
01/31/2010 The ‘Art’ of Social Engineering: We revisit the mathematical roots of our hypothetical Directorate 153 to take a stab and when to expect terrorism’s next appearance…
01/30/2010: Ah, the market roll-ov er is underway, we see…
01/24/2010: Don’t look now but a medium-term top is in and George goes short…
1/23/2010: FDIC marches five more banks to the wall as outlook for markets darken around Greece, healthcare and more…
1/17/2010: Fight, Flight, and Diaspora: Everything from railriding to small unit tactics in this week’s look at diaspora.
1/16/2010 Diaspora Part One looks at all the Haitians that are moving now and the billion to follow later this year. And in Coping, we consider whether the Schumann Resonance might be tradable..
01/10/2010 The Latest Surprise Disaster. Remember that blue ribbon Commission that was going to figure out how we got into the current economic mess? Well, it too is a guess what?
1/9/2010: Checkbook Republic Rules come up in court while down in the WuJo a Nostradamus anagram hints at Obama
1/2/2010: My Personal Trading Plan for 2010. Not advise, just a summary of my approach with options this year.
1/1/2010: (A holiday weekend Saturday-on-Friday edition) Timing P3 Down
12/27/2009: Emerging Language, Emergent War? Some thoughts on texting and abbreviations are changing how people think plus a look at short term Iran War prospects
12/26/2009: Shall we make some money now?
12/20/2009: Along comes the context change and with it we look at the future of exponential growth rates of markets and money…
12/19/2009: Is it really that bad? Sure gold has pulled back, climate talks bring empty talk and another 86 bank offices/branches closed this week…..
12/13/2009: 13 Acres and Independence: Chapter 8: Small Farm Economics. Goats versus veggies versus cattle, some daunting questions
12/12/2009: Reports from the Field – a little this, a little that, and pretty soon we think we know what we’re doing…
12/06/2009: Support of Bernanke? Yep, all things considered. But, since George getting charitable sometimes indicates a top is near, consider that, too…
Saturday Report 12/5/2009: Beware The Ides of March! Oh sure, FDIC can reorganize banks while in the red, but wait until next Spring for the real action.
11/29/2009: Fingerprints of the PTB. Want to know where to go looking for the PowersThatBe? Look to their manipulation of current events from a systems perspective.
Saturday Report 11/27/2009: Dancing with Disaster and some dance steps to consider.
11/22/2009: Improving Personal Efficiency: Some ways to do it – and what you can do with some of that time you ruthlessly reserve to yourself.
Saturday Report 11/21/2009: Global Climate a scam? That seems to be implied in a major whistle-blower/hacker file…plus: Fort Hood Follow-Up
11/15/2009: “Life Through Business Model Glasses” Ever wonder what would cause a person like me to ask “What’s the Woo-Woo business model worth?” Here’s the cause….
Saturday Report 11/14/2009: 2012: The Dangerous Convergence – a special Saturday report.
11/8/2009: “The Single Person’s Marketing Guide” I don’t know how things work in your life, but the biggest investment that a person can make in life may not be a house – it may be the relationship you pick out to go in it!
11/1/2009: “2012 – The Bigger Picture” – is the current round of flu just a social control point to keep the masses in line until some calamity in 2012. Maybe…but more likely not.
10/25/2009: “Economic Island Theory” Not only is ‘each man an island’, but in their own way, countries, counties, cities…they’re all islands and you guessed it – we’re on Atlantis economically speaking.
10/18/2009: Channeling the Future” By using a combination of channel charts and projecting a few current news stories ahead, we can get a fair look at close-in news events.
10/11/2009: The Day the Dollar Died: Ever wonder what conditions could cause the US dollar to die a convenient kind of death? Well this week’s report’s for you then…
10/04/2009: A Bad MoM, Getting Real About Real Estate and Depression E5ra Myths this week. Along with a suggestion to keep an eye on creasing talk of ‘cybersecurity’
9/27/2009: Competing Uses of Cash: OK, so government’s been corrupted by special interests and there may be a war across time going on. Now what do we do with cash?
09/20/2009: Doctrine Issues in the War Across Time: Suppose there was an ability to travel in time. Would that have some serious economic consequences? That and a whole lot more…
09/13/2009: How America Was Hijacked: Tracing the Corporate coup d’ etat and pricing it via option pricing theory. Also: Comparative values: gold, real estate and stocks.
09/06/2009: Free Satellite TV – Building a Home Information Platform and tinkering around with a Free to Air (FTA) system as a news source back-up option.
8/30/2009: Short Term Values – Capital Preservation: Some predictive elements pop up this week and next before the next Shape of Things report is due out – a preview
8/23/2009: S-Curves and SOC’s: How long can the current round of bank failures continue? Some hints from the data. And once we have that, what to do about it?
08/16/2009: Popcorn at the Train Wreck – Wherein we practice the fine art of dealing with contradiction while enjoying some popcorn at the economic abyss…
08/09/2009: Which Critical Path? Making sense of timelines: A short course in application of predictive linguistics to real world events.
08/02/2009: Five Years Out and 10 Days in October: Everything from aliens to the Financial Standards Accounting Board is on the agenda this week. These is some difference…
7/26/2009: When and How to Buy Property: Are we close to once of those once-in-a-lifetime windows? Could be…
07/18/2009: Calm before the Cytokine Storm: Lots of background about what may be coming this fall and how to cope with it.
07/12/2009: Grand Strategy for Average Folks: Yes, trying to figure out what to do with your 401(k) and whether to pay off your home is a damned tough question…
07/05/2009: Toward a Personal Constitution: While the ‘old one’ is still in place, no worries. But should that one fail, we each might need a ‘back-up’
06/28/2009: Marching to the Wall: Have a blindfold and cigarette handy? The next year or so will see lots of people and entities being ‘marched to the wall’. Gotta light?
06/21/2009: An Update from Directorate 153: “We’re in control here” and where go the economic hit men and what it means to your world.
06/14/2009: Obama’s Reconstruction Problem: If the Economy really craters, how will the US recover and what will it feel like? History offers some guidance.
06/06.2009 Still Bullish, But Eyeing the Exit: An assessment of how the market has done since our “George Turns Bullish” report back in March.
05/31/2009: “Let’s Kill the Advertising Industry!” Yup – if you really want to go environmental – let’s end the mass consumption hype and BS and get back to basics…
5/24/2009: Nothing to Fear But History: Does the 500-year global power cycle matter? Only every 500 years, which happens to flip about…oh…now!
5/17/2009: The “Voices” and Woo-Woo” meet serious investing. Turns out “As above, so below” may work in finance, too…
5/10/2009: The Reality Ratio is revisited – but no matter how tempting some stocks look – especially ‘necessities’ I won’t be wading in yet…
05/03/2009 A couple of things to plate this weekend: How the implementation of ‘computational government” would make sense, especially in flu time. And more on bank failures of the 1930’s versus today’s…
4/26/2009: So THAT was what 10XCSN meant! And then there’s Flu and what to do and jobs to pick as Depression rolls out.
4/19/2009: The really Long View of Investing: What do underwater cities have to do with investing? It’s all about time horizons
4/12/2009 Think George Ure is the only one who touts a long wave economic perspective that, oh, ends badly? Try the “Stephen Swaim Long Wave Economic Model” on for size…
4/5/2009: LifeLoops: Living Well In Spite Of….is a smorgasbord of topics, all useful in getting through the year with your faculties and cash, more or less intact…
03/29/2009 What’s this? George becomes bullish?
03/22/2009: The “Singularity” is quickly going bust…
03/15/2009: What are the Top-10 questions people are writing in asking answers to? This week you find out…
03/08/2009 Two important items this week: We can see the underlying (driver) for the Second Depression coming into view AND we spy a republicorp plan to exempt federal employees in Washington DC from the income tax!
03/01/2009: An urgent advisory from the time monks on possible gold fraud about to be uncovered and a look at how close the parallels are to the 1930’s
02/22/2009: Throw out the “Rules of Engagement” since what may be coming our way won’t be covered by “Geneva anything…”
02/15/2009: A rather steely-eyed view of 2012. Biggest threats? Global financial collapse, soft evolution and pandemic. Non-issues? Planet X and such…
2/8/2009: Barter and Future Exchange. Yeah, barter sounds cool and all, but how you gonna do it with the computer-based barter systems go down?
2/1/2009: Scholarship, Scope, and this week’s You-Know-What. Like a football game, the global economy is fresh out of ‘time outs’
1/30/2009 Special Mid-session market note
01/25/2009: Running away to the Sea: Everything you want to know about living on a boat – and why a building earthquake trend should give you pause
01/18/2009: How Humans Lost Control: Since corporations have more rights than humans, and since they are taxed only on net income, not their top lines like humans, you would expect a different outcome?
01/11/2009 “Obama’s Persian Gulf Test? Could we see mining of the key waterways near Iran as the new president’s first big test in office?
01/04/2009 “The Crash Handbook” Part Two: What Nobody wants to talk about – economic cycles…
12/28/2008 “The Crash Handbook” Chapter One: How Bad & How Ready?
12/21/2008 Time once again for us to pick our (hopefully) ‘winning investments’ for 2009. Gold, guns, and gardens beat out paper again…
12/14/2008: How to be an Economist: How to slice your own P.I.E. and Jevons meets the Petri dish.
12/7/2008: How much inflation is “enough”? Care to take a guess?
11/30/2008: How to adjust your seatbelt for the next couple of months. Joyriding? Well, not quite…
11/23/2008 Control of Personal Inputs: Like computers, we’re all GIGO machines down inside…
11/16/2008: Tales of Two Half-Lives: We consider the half-life of Global Trade and the half-life of hedge funds…
11/9/2008 Toward a New Economics: Somewhere, there’s probably a better approach than cannibalistic corporatism…
11/02/2008: Lessons of the New Depression #1: Lessons on Renting Your. There are times when renting is better than owning. If you’re leveraged in a house, now is one of them…
10/26/2008 Nightmare on Wall Street, Part Two: The Paradigm Collapse…
10/19/2008: We go shopping to invest in a new mini-factory to take part in reindustrializing America. What we found was something else: No customers and living under overpasses…
10/12/2008: What Thomas W. Lamont Talked about in 1930 as causes of the Great Depression & where we are today…
10/05/2008 Not saying it’s going to happen, but a certain air of discomfort looms around this coming week in the markets – with good reason.
9/28/2008: A Lifetime of Camping: Deals aside we consider what happens if the central banks of the world collectively don’t make it and there’s nothing left functional…
09/21/2008 Things are looking more than a little dire for America and our “leaders” are trying to give money to private insurance companies to stave off an honest reckoning.
09/14/2008 Watching the Entrances and Exits – This can tell you a lot about a country and its leadership’s plans..
9/07/2008: Broker, Brokers, and Broken – Why there’s a path just ahead to Dow 3,800.
8/31/2008: Well, here we are 37 Days from a possible hot zone in predictive linguistics – and if right, it will be bigger than 9/11
8/24/2008: We begin to assess how Hillary Clinton could slide back into the White House and we also hold ‘Crooked Finance School’
8/17/2008: How to Cope With Rationing: The answer is simple: The best way is to see it coming before anyone else catches on and have a good stock on hand…
08/10/2008: 13 Acres & Independence #7: Robust Home Power – A complete step by step way to spend $10,000 getting ready for power rationing in 2009
08/03/2009: The trouble with UFO’s. Yeah, they may be real, but then again, maybe not. Still, with banks imploding, they’re a nice distraction.
07/27/2008 Grab and Go Bags: If there’s a chance Terrorism could morph into a global revolution against authority, then a gab and go plan makes a lot of sense…
07/20/2009: A look at the charts, and a projection of just under 7,500 for a fall low before Christmas based on trends and current expectations.
07/13/2008: A Mid-summer checklist of where things stand on the seven major life support systems
07/06/2008: How to whip up a “How to Get Fired Kit”. With more layoffs coming, it might be something to start working on
06/29/2008: Say, how about a currency based on BTU’s instead of notional promises?
06/22/2008: Spreadsheet School: We construct a Gas Cost Impact Estimator to let you model $25 gas if you have the stomach for it…
06/15/2008: Changes of Status: Don’t look now but some of those ‘status values’ fed into you as a kid at kaput! finis! Toast!
06/08/2008: A chart talk about what could be an absolute ‘worst case’ for the next year or two. not likely, but worth considering…
06/01/2008: Multiplexing the Market: OK, Quantitative methods have roll-off in the future. So how to we build more solid long term expectations?
05/25/2008: Advice to the kids: So, you want a pension?
05/18/2008: All the Roads to Riches. How many ways are there to get rich? Oh, about 11 or so…
05/11/2008: 13 Acres and Independence Part 6: – Fitting out a home shop for recovery, remodeling, and more..
05/04/2008: Accidental Extinction: Have GM crops already have ruined the outlook for humans? Is that why dead scientists and seed vaults make headlines?
04/27/2008 This week’s report “Micropreneuring and the Future of Mass Customization” gets me to inventing the “Public Design Library”
04/20/2008 Double Issue: Waves and Housing – more downside to come and a nuclear planner’s personal planning approach
04/13/2008 Feeling a little out of phase with the markets? If youi can visual phases, will results improve?
04/06/2008 14,966 and then Crash 2.0? How would you have spotted the Crash of 1929 in advance?
03:30:2008: Three solutions are proposed: A rediscovery of family/self organizing collectives for financial support, a global political party, and a discussion of the new move against private wealth, not just money
03/23/2008: Our little Camping In results were surprisingly disappointing. We’re less ready than I thought.
03/16/2008: Camping In: A personal disaster preparedness Exercise – Part One
03/09/2008: 13 Acres and Independence Part 5: Education, Knowledge, some distinctions and how to invest in each
03/02/2008 13 Acres and Independence Part 4: A lot of notes on buying land and deciding if the outback is the right move for you
2/24/2008: 13 Acres and Independence Part 3: How to get started on the transition with next to nothing
2/17/2008 13 Acres and Independence Part 2: Dual Use Business Plans
2/10/2008: 13 Acres and Independence, Part 1. We look at the ‘flee the city’ options again for those still there.
2/3/2008: Super Bow Sunday – so lets talk about sports and market gambling styles a bit, shall we?
1/27/2008: Retooling Higher Ed – where we ask “If data is getting cheaper, why is pricing of education going up?” And alternative is offered…
1/20/2008 OK, so you have a 401-K. Are there options? Yes, but you’re on your own. I don’t trust the government when it comes to promises involving money…
01/13/2008 Another chart talk this week to clarify how a possible bounce (or crash) from these levels could work out.
01/06/2008: This week could be one of the most exciting in recent memory – so with that in mind, a quick chart talk and a trading plan are in order.
12/30/2007: Is there a word called “crashcade”? Well, there is now…
12/23/2007: 2008 – Paradigms in collision explores some ways new thoughts slowly integrate into how we think about the world
12/16/2007: Our annual report and outlook. Why I’m planning for 9% inflation in my own spending but reported deflation in 2008
12/09/2007: Is the price of gold manipulated? Oh yeah, but curiously, the people who should be complaining ought to be foreign exchange players…
12/2/2007: Dr. Ron’s Leisure Class: Rather than spend money on wars, what about a professional leisure class?
11/25/2007 The Case to Move Christmas. Tired of no daylight to put up lights? Distortion of economic impacts? Easily solved: move Christmas! Two other gifts from Santa too, if he were an economist
11/16/2007: The Switch to Digital Money – Will the banks use stressful times to make a grab for it?
11/12/2007 Kiss Off 13,000 – but just for now. Special Update
11/11/2007: Call from an Insider: When the guys who control billions tell me they’re worried, I get worried, too
11/07/2007: With the dollar and Dow down, a special mid week update on how I intend to play things.
11/04/2008: Two Years to Global War? Not a pretty prospect, but is there an alternative?
10/28/2007: In a combined report with charts and regular content this week, we consider how indices look valued in Euros not Dollars.
10/21/2007 This weekend, an exploration of what makes a market crash and we throw a few darts at the calendar to keep sharp
10/14/2007 Like Baseball, I have three strikes and I’m out: Mind amplifiers, the computing crossroads and the SIV mess.
10/7/2007: Decision framing and portfolio balance: Is Kurzweil’s singularity a mirage or a possibility? Nested decision-making tools might help…
9/30/2007: Dollar Limbo Time: Strike up that Caribbean Beat – Limbo Low “How Low Can You Go?”
9/23/2007: Perplexed by the financial system? This week I’m hawking redshift as a conceptual aid.
9/16/2007: The hours tick by until we hit our ’emotional turn date – and hopefully our worst fears won’t materialize.
9/9/2007: “History’s Biggest Ooops?” Just because the US Crash Clock was reset by 2001 doesn’t mean Russia’s economy reset…
9/2/2007: Some thoughts on the health of Labor and difficult decisions ahead on this “Labor Day”
8/26/2007: We continue to read papers on bank runs and ask “Under what conditions could they happen here?”
8/19/2007: Trading the End of the World: Yes there was a rally last week, but it only made the October outlook worse.
08/12/2007 Interventions: Illegal Price Fixing? As we look ahead, we wonder if the bank interventions in the markets don’t amount to price fixing…
08/05/2007 Care to make up a Collapse kit?
7/29/2007 Consumerism: Who are those Monkeys on Crack, anyway?
07/22/2007 Gentlemen Start your TradeStations: George is getting back into option trading…
07/18/2007 Technical Note on Inflation Corrected Dow
07/15/2007 Conspicuous Deconsumption. Not to pick on Phoenix, but if we get an oil embargo, ho would life be without A/C?
07/08/2007 A Reality from Vacations – Lots of people can’t vacation this year – did the Western World Peak in 1958?
07/06/2007 Trade: Bought One $750 Dec gold on COMEX at $450 to open. Not trading advice! Personal account move.
07/01/2007 Time to Take a Flyer? Maybe it’s time for me to put on my (gulp) options trading hat again…
06/24/2007 Special Spreadsheet Issue: Here’s our Calamity Planner. Calculate your resistance to inflation & deflation
06/17/2007 The Summer of ’29 and we’re watching the world shake
06/10/2007 Ups and Downs of Water and Energy – need help guessing which is which?
06/03/2007 Best Jobs for the Post-Crash World
5/27/2007 Call Bernoulli – there’s some kind of connection between airplane wings and the economy, I think…
5/20/2007 Reducing personal impacts of EMP – Is there a set defensive actions we can take?
5/13/2007 The Ugly Problem of Quality. Might sound good on the surface, but it would kill the entire economy as we know it
5/6/2007: The Slow Death of Libraries, some free software from the Chief Time Monk, and an important military think tank read
4/29/2007 Just what IS Inflation? Turns out, there are more definitions than you’d think.
4/22/2007 Strategic Investing: Should we think about investing in the same thing as the Bush family?
4/15/2007 Something about 9/11 has been bugging me – and I can finally put my finger on it!
4/8/2007 Extraordinary Risk: Just One Picture tells is all – two crashes followed all time highs by 35-50 trading days
04/01/2007 Here’s a sobering Worst Case scenario and what you can do to prepare for it – if you haven’t already.
03/25/2007 The Future of Food Security: There are some things you can do to lessen your odds of being a victim of food attacks – like rotating your pantry…
03/18/2007 I consider starting “The Kenny Rogers School of Economics” – Know when to hold ’em, Know when to fold ’em”
Chaos, Corn, and Civilization: Again we ponder the “When are things so bad people just throw in the towel and say “screw it” point
Futuring Tool Chest: Some different ways to guess at the future.
Transitional Economics: We know what your job is now but what can you DO or MAKE?
Verne, Wells and 2012:
Paper Addiction: Could we see a Crash in 2007?
Redefining “Rich”. Get the feeling you’re being conned? Well, surprise, surprise. You might be…
If there’s a President’s Working Group on Markets (which there is), then there’s likely something else…
34 Entries: How to spend $10 to improve personal survivability (long)
What would you do to improve your “survivability” with $10,000 contest
How do you “dimension” wealth?
11 Top Disasters – 10 from experts and one from me.
Lessons from the Pacific Northwest’s storm. Funny how civilization’s veneer gets thin when the power gets lost...
Comparative Economics. Let’s see: Dow’s up 16% for the year. Silver is up 45%. Guess our 2006 picks did OK, huh?
Rapping Paper: The Fed’s Flow of Funds comes out, we wonder about nonfinancial debt and what to get for Christmas
2007 Forecast and 2006 Annual Report: I expect 1.7% inflation in 2007 and maybe a decrease in GDP – but a pile of caveats (like falling dollars go how far down?) so read on.
Report: Is Boeing a good “dollar canary?” and in our ChartPack “Something about “Merry”
Take one pan Pacific mega-quake and mix in $740-billion in derivatives trades that could blow up. Think: “Thanksgiving if it doesn’t happen.
11/12/2006 Ok, Democrats had a big showing in the elections. Reason to expect change? Nope, not really…..
11/05/2006 We play the exciting game: “Pick a Crash Scenario!” with contestants being November, December, and March.
10/29/2006 Not that it will happen tomorrow, but the estimates that sea level will rise are likely to be revised upward quite soon – with major impacts on the global economy to follow
10/22/2006 Two circular references: Packaging of nonperforming loans so they can be leveraged into stock positions and cracking down on illegals will mean more foreign oil dependence. Oh boy…
10/15/2006 We look at the impact of GM and a few other Dow stocks on skewing the index – and what’s ahead for GM. Also: Another web bot hit on the October quake.
10/08/2006 A Street Level View – With a large sampling of readers from around the country, some interesting feelings about the economy come through.
10/01/2006 If the “October Surprise” is nuclear, should we think about fallout shelters?
09/24/2006 Timeboards and Modelspace: Let’s try to see the future like we’re playing an arcade game, shall we?
09/17/2006 Building a Perfect Home Office: If you can figure a way to work from home, here are thoughts on how to make thre most of a home office.
09/11/2006 In this week’s edition, we ready for the Fall Fall
09/03/2006 Durable Net Worth: Ever pencil out what your assets would be worth in 2 years of 25% deflations? Spreadsheet..
0827/2006 The turbulent outlook for airlines: Not just fuel, think pension crime and back to serving the elite.
08/20/2006 A new trading system is devised, using the Global Index as an indicator for timing in and out of gold positions
08/13/2006 Marking time for the onset of the fall market declines, we look at advertising and consumer hypnosis.
08/06/2006 Forget Peak Oil – has a global “die off” event started and no one is raising the alarm yet?
07/30/2006 Answers to Reader Questions – and our Chart Pack this week has a real eye opener on how low markets could go…
07/23/2006 Piecemeal Collapse: At what point do complex systems suddenly tip and get really unstable? Ask St. Louis or Queens residents.
07/16/2006 Spoils of War: When almost everyone has an axe to grind or a hidden agenda, seems like war is a logical outcome.
07/09/2006 Rearview Inflation, Resource Gleaning. How to see the real rate of inflation, and is it time to eBay junk for a mortgage payment?
07/03/2006: Who’s Independent? A shrinking world, tighter oil, and people who’d rather veg than act.
06/25/2006: The Coming Protein Cost Explosion
06/18/2006 Myth of Ownership: You really “own” a lot less than you think!
06:11/2006: Music to our Ears? A look at how technology has changed lives in the recording industry
06/04/2006: “Flipped!” Are we back in the USSR? Some uncanny parallels have been emerging
05/28/2006: A look at the stealth arrival of peak oil. Are inventory issues a clue?
05/21/2006: Modeling Disaster in JIT Systems: Once triggered, do kabans dance and recover or all fall down?
05/14/2006: Crooked Casino Chronicles. Schemes like taxing inflated gains stick in my craw this week. Also: Gold targets
05/07/2006: Should we thank al Qaida for preventing a global economic collapse in 2002?
04/30/2005 Desperate Acts and the Real Y2K Problem: 1929 was a peak, and it looks like 2000 was too…
04/23/2006 Another Course in Leverage: A short course in levered investments for newcomers.

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04/16/2006 Techery and Wave Three Down: You can’t eat iPods and high def vegetables, can you?

04/09/2006 Building a Toilet Paper Index

04/02/2006 Walter Mitty Goes to Wall Street. Mitty is worried – and maybe you should be, too.

03/26/2006 Paper, Rock, Scissors: Immigration demonstration likely not the context shift, but what is it?

03/19/2006 How Bad Could It Get? A lot of people are stocking up. Here’s what we’ve been buying…

03/12/2006 Death By J.I.T: Has the drive to reduce business inventories left us exposed to shortages?

03/05/2006 Electronics boot camp. With context change coming electronic competence is important.

2/26/2006 Problems of Empire. With paper money, inflation is just too damn tempting in End Times

2/19/2006 Investing in End Times.

2/12/2006 Sixth Truths and their Consequences – things we don’t like to about about the economy

2/5/2006 Are we facing “The Singularity” or a Mad Maxx from Thunder Dome kind of future?

1/29/2006 Global Market Entrainment – We may have spotted a 12-14 week inflation cycle by the Fed

1/22/2006 Belief in Pensions and other Delusions: What happens when paper doesn’t rule?

1/18/2006 Will Wednesday be “Hell Day” for global markets? A special pre-opening report.

1/15/2006 Where is the Businessphere? Economists don’t have an “economic atmosphere to study

1/8/2006 Standing in the woods naked, I see the “perfect investment”

1/1/2006 How to make a 25-50 TIMES return in the coming market crash – at least in theory!

12/25/2005 Odds of a Crash in 2006 (About one in six, I reckon!)

12/18/2006 We do our own version of the Annual Employee Review and we offer a shop shopping list

12/11/2005 Getting ready for the gangs in your future. Some facts and a simple plan: own a gun.

12/04/2005 Annual Forecast for 2006: 6.3% inflation, rising costs, wobbly banking system

11/27/2005 Adventures in Digidollars. A few thoughts on M3 and why velocity ain’t what you think it is.

11/20/2005 Lesson from the Rich: How they get there and why inflation is coming to help out.

11/13/2005 Lessons from the Poor: things to ponder as you plot your career path or your kid’s

11/06/2005 Help for Citizen-Journalists – and some thoughts on the market’s bounce upward

10/30/2005 Attack on the Bankers! Serious questions being raised about bank-printed money.

10/23/2005 Corporate Cannibalism: How the singularity colliding with manufacturer hysteresis gets us

10/16/2005 Watering Down Money: Prices don’t go up, money’s value is gong down – quickly!

10/09/2005 CANAMEX, Land Grabs, and the Singularity: How all the pieces fit together neatly.

10/05/2005 Special midweek reader advisory #2 – market could be breaking down in here.

10/04/2005 Special midweek reader advisory

10/02/2005 With winter ahead, some contingency plans are laid out

09/25/2005 The Simplicity Party proposed – and will we all be saved by the Metaverse?

09/18/2005: Is the Weimar in sight? Gold going up is a warning to those of us who read history…

09/11/1005 Some thoughts on pending terrorism – Can computer systems always help?

09/04/2005 Fight or Flight Revisited: Will Katrina damage be much worse than expected? Maybe…

08/28/2005 Jobs? what Jobs? In the wake of a housing collapse, what will your job be worth?

08/21/2005 Return of the family unit: Several reasons are forcing kids to return home.

08/14/2005 200 weeks into our series of weekly reports, how are we doing? Pretty good we reckon…

08/07/2006 Rethinking Work and Consumption

07/31/2005 The mistletoe theory of parasitic economics.

07/24/2005 Is a final Blow Off Top in the works? maybe, but use extreme caution if you plan to play it!

07/17/2005 Is there something to be learned about ETF’s and markets from studying boat stability?

07/10/2005 We take up the issue of building a Family Business Plan – something we overlooked in our busy lives.

07/03/2005 How Free is America? Try #17 in some categories – and a Shock Chart: Program Trading tops 75% of stock market handle the week of June 20-24!

06/25/2005 Should we scrap our Terrorist Warning labels and use then as US Made Content labels?

06/18/2005 Is there a revolution coming in Desktop Fabrication and Desktop manufacturing?

06/12/2005 How Safe is your 401(k) Plan – will it really get you where you want to go?

06/05/2005 The Five year Steak Dinner Bet: Sweat equity or gold and silver – how do you play it?

05/29/2005 Was it Really Osama? A case for 45-56 & 70-80 year economic cycles.

05/22/2005 Has Anarchy quietly Arrived? Ten years ago is was talk, but is the leading edge arriving now?

05/14/2005 Singularity? Which one? With Singularity mainstream, maybe a bit of research will help.

05/08/2005 Nuclear Proliferation and technology transfers: How to los an empire?

05/01/2005 May 20: BRIC hits windshield, or what else is percolating and soon to be sprung on us? Deleted due to server error

04/25/2005 Will 10,000 hold? A series of unfortunate assumptions

04/17/2005 An alternative to Financial Planning: Is financial planning missing something? We think so…

04/10/2005 Convergence Technologies: Say, aren’t integrated products ultimately deflationary?

04/03/2005 A New Kind of Slavery: But what will we call it?

03/27/2005 News and the Cult of Personality: You don’t really care about Michael Jackson, do you?

03/19/2005 Where are the jobs in the next economy? We poll readers on what industrial equipment to buy.

03/12/2005 What ever happened to Unions? Is there still a need to be filled? Young people seem to think so…

03/05/2005 April: War with Mexico? It looks like 1,000 Minutemen may show up to help Border Patrol but what will MS-13 do?

02/26/2005 Saturation Economics and we explain for you the magic of the formula Ult = Oi + Jj + Li

02/20/2005 In the Devil’s interest: the case against fraction reserve banking and interest.

02/13/2005 Adjust your saddles – is it Time to Ride the New Bull? Maybe, but what about debt reduction plans as an alternative?

02/06/2005 Equilibrium Lost: What’s giving way in slow motion, is the pegged Chinese Yuan and the implications are astounding. Try 30% inflation…

01/30/2005 Part 2: “How to Live on $10,000 a year” – Where we hone the phone, lose interest in interest, and other money saving moves…

01/23/2005 Part 1: “How to Live on $10,000 a year” – Yes, you’ll need to start walking and maybe find a roommate, but hey, who said it was easy?

01/16/2005 Bloom, Spin, and Disaster: What’s your Personal Point of Action?

01/09/2005 Good News? Here? Yes! ~ Global Climate Change may work out for the U.S. this year – if you don’t mind some serious flooding, that is….

01/03/2005 Time for Revolutionary Change? Law we really ought to be considering to promote real changes in society.

12/27/2004 Our Story of the Year: The rapidly growing underground economy and how it may drive tax reform.

12/19/2004 Urban Survival’s Annual Report: How’s our growth and service? Some interesting stats and thoughts.

12/12/2004 Our 2005 Annual Forecast – and why we won’t predict more than the first half of the year.

12/05/2004 War of the Currency Factions or Crash and Conflict? Why does 2005 look “iffy”? Pick your poison…

11/28/2004 Environmental factors that influence investor behavior and methods to improve specific performance.

11/21/2004 Crash Alert Extended plus Stealing Back the New Deal explains a lot about what’s happening in today’s news headlines…

11/14/2004 Social Security and the Art of Dying. Isn’t there some way to get our money’s worth?

11/07/2004 The road to Theocracy – we may be more right than before, but there’s a good chance of a big rally as a result…

10/31/2004 The day after the day after tomorrow – it’s election time and a lack of a clear mandate would make us very afraid.

10/24/2004 The War that Matters: How the Middle East could blow up right after the U.S. election to bring a new oil crisis.

10/17/2004 Crime Story: Watch Crime turn to Terrorism and in turn Terrorism morphs to war as we lurch toward Armageddon.

10/10/2004 Bordering on the Future: Mexico Moves North, dollar moves down, so is there something else going on?

10/03/2004 A New Dark Age? Marc Widdow’s fascinating work says a new Dark Age is on its way to a world near you.

09/26/2004 Guns and Money: We’re not “gun nuts” but the size and politics of the gun business is impressive.

09/19/2004 Nonmanufacturing Jobs and other Wet Dreams: Why bankers win, plus G. Lammert’s Contributed Paper

09/12/2005 Does the President really make a difference? Regardless of who wins, 2005 is already “in the bag.”

09/05/2004 A man who knew Osama bin Laden – and a return visit to our fictitious Directorate 153 to see what’s next.

08/29/2004 La Palme, Greenland, and Greenspan: Volcanoes, glaciers, or Greenspan attacking retirement benefits?

08/22/2004 Welcome to the War College (interactive game) plus Cascading Collapse of Civilization due to oil prices?

08/15/2004 Structuring Retirement: Coping with uncertainty that increases over time – one retirement option is…Jail!

08/08/2004 The Future in Four Takes: Web Bots, Robin Landry on Strategy, Delphi Results and What the Charts Say

08/01/2004 How to Preserve Wealth: Start by getting a clear vision of what the future will be like…then you can plan.

07/25/2004 Let’s start something called the Honesty Party : a Few planks we might include are offered.

07/18/2004 Fire or Ice: With CO2 levels high, glacier melts are speeding up. Plus, do terrorists have nukes?

07/11/2004 Program Trading: Are Small Investors now obsolete? Sure looks that way.

07/04/2004 Economic Liberty: Some ideas on how to recover it.

06/27/2004 Consumer Saturation Revisited: If we’re in a recovery, what are advertising revenues and costs doing?

06/21/2004 Wind Corrected Speed Limits – Sure Iran’s a problem, but here’s a real solution to energy demand!

06/12/2004 What Can You Save: After a Midsummer’s nightmare, what will be left worth buying?

06/06/2004 Don’t sweat the Meteors, we have bigger problems

05/30/2004 China, Oil, and May 22nd: Why you need to read Huberman, Youssefmir, and Hogg’s work

05/23/2004 The “Walk Away” Option – What keeps city dwellers frozen in place?

O5/16/2004 When Johnny Comes Marching Home

05/09/2004 Tribes and Affinity Groups: Welcome to Life after $40

05/02/2004 Odds for Two Clients: How we apply SDLC principles to business model success probabilities.

04/25/2004 September’s Crash: Some Web bots, some energy conservation, and some breathing time?

04/17/2004 Living with the trends that lead to our future.

04/11/2004 Economic Implications of Global Carrying Capacity

04/04/2004 Gauging the next Terrorist Induced Market Drop (with spreadsheet)

03/28/2004 Welcome to the land of $5 gas – and how we might bring it on ourselves

03/21/2004 Crude Implications: Where oil is going is up, and that means down for the economy

03/14/2004 Patents and Prophesy: Dow 700?

03/11/2004 Special preopening chart of Global Index showing breakdown of trend.

03/07/2004 What’s a vacation? Some thoughts on those leisurely summers of the past

02/29/2004 Urgency to plant a garden? This year, with weather refugees, it makes sense

02/22/2004 Three Plagues: Energy, Jobjacking, and Debt.

02/14/2004 Past, Present, and Future: Reflections at 55

02/08/2004 Thank Robotics for redeveloping barter systems.

02/01/2004 Two Sure-fire Killer Investments. OK, so it’s insulation and homegrown veggies…

01/25/2004 Could we have an Election Year Crash? Kerry and Bush are “safe” choices…

01/18/2004 Economic Patriotism: It’s not only jobjacking, it’s importing cheap workers, too!

01/11/2004 Catastrophic Possibilities: Will the administration be overwhelmed by events?

01/03/2004 From the Euro perspective, the US Market was up only 1.9% for all of 2003…some rally, huh?

12/27/2003 Our Annual Forecast Issue: 13% cost of living increase, +/- the variance of dollar declines.

12/20/2003 Cashless Society: The Banker’s “Way Out”? Just add zeroes and who cares about debt?

12/14/2003 A Debtor’s Prison – Without Walls (and projection of up to 20% rally on Saddam’s capture)

12/07/2003 The Home Grab and Go Bag – And some thoughts on the pending Fed Meeting

11/29/2003 Quest for Anti-Gravity – an elusive but attractive dream

11/22/2003 TA’s VS. IT: The Survivability of Knowledge

11/15/2003 Let’s Build a Crystal Ball (Commodities as a predictor)

11/08/2003 Numerical Basis of AmRev2?

11/01/2003 Perpetual War?

10/25/2003 Return of Stagflation

10/19/2003 A Global Recovery?

10/11/2003 Corporate War with Humans?

10/05/2003 Timescapes: Short-term thinking

09/27/2003 Predicting Global Collapse

09/20/2003 Missing Money & More on Iraq Oil

09/13/2003 Propaganda Lessons?

09/06/2003 Shopping for a Farm

08/30/2003 Labor Outlook: Grim

08/23/2003 Oh Two, Oh Oh

8/17/2003 Debt is our Friend!

8/09/2003 Warring Retailers

8/3/2003 Bond Collapse Pending

7/26/2003 Great Decline of Retailing

7/20/2003 Mid Year Outlook

07/13/2003 Mandatory Housing Holding ?

07/04/2003 What’s Normal Nowadays?

06/28/2003 What Productivity Miracle?

06/22/2003 Can we afford another U.S.?

06/15/2003 Anti-deficiency laws

06/07/2003 A New Class of Analytics

06/01/2003 Seasonality, Cycles, Processes

05/26/2003 Conspiracies and Investing

05/18/2003 Case for 5200

05/10/2003 The Fall Back Position

05/04/2003 Bush Re-Elected!

04/26/2003 Planet X and Robots

04/20/2003 Can markets be modeled?

04/13/2003 Saturation Economics

04/06/2003 Limits of Inflation

03/29/2003 Economic Impacts of SARS

03/23/2003 Decision Matrix

03/16/2003 Brother, can you spare a dime?

03/09/2003 Return of Family Values?

03/02/2003 Markets by time or price?

02/23/2003 Standby for Inflation

02/16/2003 Prepared or Paranoid?

02/09/2003 A word about Pensions: Ugghh

02/02/2003 Nuclear War this Summer?

01/26/2003 Skull and Boner

01/17/2003 The Corporate Persona

01/12/2003 License the Internet?

01/01/2003 Annual Forecast Pt. 2

12/29/2002 Annual Forecast Pt. 1

12/25/2002 Rock Soup

12/15/2002 Oil War Two, Pt. 2

12/8/2002 Quasi-Crystals!

12/1/2002 Three Wiese men? Where?

11/24/2002 A Science Problem

11/19/2002 Travel Notes

11/10/2002 Car buying? Me???

11/03/2002 Evolving the Islamic Super State

10/27/2002 Independent Confirmation

10/21/2002 Archetypes and Investing

10/13/2002 Mutual Funds in Trouble

10/06/2002: Is the Social Contract Gone??

9/28/2002 I.P. Troubles?

09/21/2002 Headlines From Hell

09/15/2002 Clues from Bankruptcy #’s

09/08/2002 Is Noorenberger right?

08/30/2002 Dow 5800 in Sight?

08/24/2002 F.A.E.’s

08/18/2002 Seattle: A Canary?

08/10/2002 Trading on West Nile Virus?

08/02/2002 Let’s talk about Sex

07/28/2002 Welcome to the Grinder

07/21/2002 TGAH In Vancouver BC

07/14/2002 A Dividend Portfolio

07/06/2002 Quest for a Sure Thing

06/30/2002 Search Engine Oracle

06/21/2002 Black Monday Foreseen

06/16/2002 Values & Risks

06/08/2002 Deer: Hunters & Headlights

06/02/2002 Key Ring Credit Cards

05/25/2002 A couple of Onions

05/19/2002 Why Japan but not US?

05/12/2002 Where’s the Dust?

05/05/2002 Sunspot Dangers?

04/28/2002 Inflation in Plain Sight

04/21/2002 When Banks Close

04/14/2002 Oil War II: Chavez Back

04/06/2002 Speed of Depreciation

03/31/2002 Gamble on a Hunch?

03/24/2002 Pricing the Holy Grail

03/17/2002 Off the boat!

03/10/2002 Oil War Two

03/03/2002 Skeptical? You Betcha

02/23/2002 War Planning!

02/16/2002 Ahead, Darkly

02/10/2002 Two Months to Crash?

02/02/2002 The Scale of Crime

01/27/2002 Constrained Systems

01/20/2002 Depreciating Money

01/13/2002 Crash Alert

01/06/2002 Bankruptcy?

12/28/2001 S-Curves & Bots

12/22/2001 Web=CB fad

12/15/2001 Conspiracies

12/08/2001 Matching ’29 #’s

12/02/2001 A Directorate 153?

11/25/2001 LT Elliott Waves

11/18/2001 A New World Axis

11/10/2001 On Use of WMD’s

11/04/2001 Reality Ratio III

10/27/2001 Skip a Depression?

10/19/2001 Future of Islam

 

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