UrbanSurvival

This morning we try to sketch up what Life in the After-Crash will probably look like next year, and the year after that. This as America seems increasingly likely to hit our all-time-high stock market window August 21-24th.  From there, it will be two things:  First of which is “Look out below!“But the other is “What’s it gonna be like?”  We tackle that after headlines and charts…and you’ll learn why the phrase “r-star” will play a prominent role in our economic future. More for Subscribers       ||| SUBSCRIBE NOW!       |||   Subscriber … Continue reading →

Been thinking about something a fair bit lately.  We have this recording studio – and in it are a fair number of instruments.  But we can only play a handful of them. Sure, we both took music lessons when we were younger (which takes in most of the past century): Elaine played some violin (no fiddling around jokes, please) and I took piano until I couldn’t take it any more. But strangely – for someone who has designed and built professional multitrack studios and broadcast studios – I have never  … Continue reading →

While Elaine and Zeus the Cat keep an eye on the homestead, Ure’s truly will be off to the eye docs for a one year (or so) follow-up to the eye surgeries this morning. As you’ll recall, this is from a conventional IOL of some 25-years going bad (by slipping out of position) and having to fall back to an anterior chamber lens.  While it works, having to wear rigid gas permeable contacts has been something I wouldn’t put my second worst enemy through. But in case you ever run … Continue reading →

Oh, boy. Here we go again into a terribly (politicalized) discussion of who should get how much healthcare and who should pay for it. Going around today is the discussion of what kind of Medicaid cuts are coming in the (sickly) GOP healthcare reform of Obamacare. The Washington Post has a pretty good article here – “Under the Senate bill, older Americans will pay more for less health insurance…” But as much as they try to simplify things, there are some key differences in terminology that you need to be clear … Continue reading →

Although it is not a hard-and-fast rule, there is oftentimes something of an upward bias to markets in the period leading into major holidays. So, with the Fourth Of July three or four day weekend just ahead, it’s no wonder that I find myself somewhat long the market, waiting for the Big Move to the blow-off highs of July/August we’ve been predicting to show up. There is some sense that the market is climbing a wall or worry, the more realistic outlook is that it’s climbing a “wall of cash…” … Continue reading →